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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5187 4 July 1868 of The Empire est. 1850 The Empire
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Notes

  • This issue of the Empire includes several advertisements for non-literary magazines in the fields of commerce and agriculture.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1868 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Magazines per Panama Steamer, single work advertisement

Importer W. R. Piddington advertises the sale of recently arrived magazines: the Quarterly Review, the Athanaeum, the Saturday Review, the World of Fashion, the Family Herald, Blackwood's Magazine and Cornhill Magazine.

 (p. 1)
Royal Victoria Theatre : Colonial Experience, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Walter Cooper's Colonial Experience and of Pilgrim of Love on 4, 6, 7 and 8 July 1868.

 (p. 1)
To Printers and Newspaper Proprietors, single work advertisement

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'.

 (p. 1)
Victoria Theatre, single work column

The Empire notes the first performance of Walter Cooper's Colonial Experience (taking place on the evening of the column's publication) and wishes the author 'every success'.

 (p. 4)
A King for a Colonyi"Cubs of the grand old lioness brood,", Martin Farquhar Tupper , single work poetry (p. 5)
Note: Revised and edited version.
Our Canadian Dominion. By Martin F. Tupper. London, 1868, single work review
— Review of Our Canadian Dominion : Half a Dozen Ballads about a King for Canada : With Some Prose Comments Martin Farquhar Tupper , 1868 selected work prose poetry ; (p. 5)
Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt-Streeti"M'Carroll's 'Tenth' Branch Shop will be a brilliant sight,", single work poetry

The opening of McCarroll's tenth butcher shop, 'in Liverpool and Sussex streets' is announced.The shop will be opened at 6.00pm, Saturday, 4 July 1868.

 (p. 6)
This Day, Saturday, July 4th, at 11 O'Clock : Sale of Household Furniture and Effects, single work advertisement

An advertisement for the sale by auction of 'household furniture and effects', including 'valuable books'.

 (p. 7)
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Notes:
Includes the first instalment of the short story 'Autobiography of a Sydney Notability', (p. 2).
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