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An advertisement for Sheridan Moore's lecture to be delivered at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 16 July 1868.

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins's No Thoroughfare and John Maddison Morton's The Two Buzzards on 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 July 1868.

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Walter Cooper's Colonial Experience and Thomas Morton's Sink or Swim on 20 July 1868. The evening was a 'complimentary benefit ... to Walter H. Cooper'.

The advertisement notes that characters in Sink or Swim are to be 'sustained by gentlemen connected with the Sydney press' and that 'a prologue written for the occasion by Frank Hutchinson, Esq., will be delivered by Miss Rosa Cooper.'

An advertisement, probably placed by Samuel Bennett (sole proprietor, printer and publisher of the Empire), for the sale of a single cylinder printing machine. The sale is being offered 'to make room for a new machine daily expected from England'.

A review of the July 1868 Royal Victoria Theatre production of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins's No Thoroughfare.

The reviewer also notes the upcoming benefit evening for Walter Cooper at which Cooper's Colonial Experience and Thomas Morton's Sink or Swim will be produced. The reviewer incorrectly attributes Sink or Sink to J. Madison [sic] Morton.

An overview, including the text of Dickens's speech, of Charles Dickens's farewell dinner with New York's gentlemen of the press.