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An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals; or, A Trip to Bath and Walter T. Cooper's A New Crime; or, 'Andsome 'Enery's Mare's Nest on 7 August 1868. The evening's performance is advertised as a 'complimentary benefit to Mr. W. H. Cooper the successful Australian Author'.

An advertisement announcing six performances by Grace Egerton at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts.

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'.

The Empire, noting that the 7 August 1868 performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre is a benefit for Walter T. Cooper, continues: 'The last "benefit" he received resulted in a loss. It is to be hoped that the patronage to-night will not only make up for the loss, but will be of a character to encourage Mr. Cooper to engage his talents in further dramatic efforts.'

An account of two assaults committed on Samuel Hawkins, editor of the The Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser, one by Frederick Ainslow Tompson and the other by his son. (The assaults occurred after Hawkins wrote allegedly libellous columns about Tompson in the Express.)