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This issue of the Empire carries an advertisement for the colonial publication, by J. R. Clarke, of popular international songs.
Also included in this issue is a report from a Wilcannia race meeting. The Empire's racing correspondent, referring to the 'Darling darlings' who attended the three-day meeting, quotes a verse adapted from the writings of St Basil. The verse, slightly misquoted by the Empire's correspondent, appeared in English literary magazines in the 1830s.
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Prince of Wales Opera House : Christmas Eve, &c.,
single work
advertisement
(p. 1)
An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of Edward Fitzball's Christmas Eve, Joseph Stirling Coyne's My Wife's Daughter and H. J. Byron's The Lady of Lyons on 16, 17 and 18 November 1868.
- Phillip M'Carroll, Pitt-Streeti"We must ask what the graziers again are about", single work poetry (p. 1)
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To Printers and Newspaper Proprietors,
single work
advertisement
(p. 4)
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'.
