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Issue Details:
First known date:
1868...
no.
5271
13 October
1868
of
The Empire
est. 1850
The Empire
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* Contents derived from the 1868 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Phillip M'Carroll, Pitt-Streeti"Said Martin of Parkes and his Kiama speeches,", single work poetry (p. 1)
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The March of the 'Life Brigade' : After Tennyson and after the Feniansi"Up the street, up the street;",
single work
poetry
satire
(p. 3)
A satirical attack on New South Wales politician Henry Parkes (the recently deposed Colonial Secretary), who had maintained that the attempted assassination of Prince Alfred was the work of Fenians. At the time of the poem's composition, Parkes was one of the leading proponents of the belief that a Fenian conspiracy was alive within the Australian colonies.
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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'.
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