Aquatic Carnival
The annual aquatic carnival under the auspices of the Wilcannia Boating Club eventuated New Year's Day. A long programme of events both on…
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Shows & fairs, 1914
312 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 16
Unrest in the Picture Show World. Sydney
The Musician's Union is talking of entering into competition with the regular picture shows as a method of fighting the present dispute. A compulsory…
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A meeting of Premiers will Probably be held in Melbourne on an early date to discuss with the Prime Minister, the question of the representation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Youth Electrocuted. at This Burke Ward Hall. While Preparing for a Picture Show
A distressing fatality occurred in the Burke Ward Hall last night, when a youth named Harold Wilfred Gray, who resides with his parents at South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Country Tennis Carnival. Sydney
The country tennis carnival was advanced a stage yesterday, and the matches are now nearing completion. Trundle and Cowra will contest the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Country Tennis in Sydney. Carnival Concluded. Sydney
The country week lawn tennis carnival was concluded at the New South Wales association's grounds at Double Bay on Saturday, in fine weather…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broken Hill Specimens in London. the British Dominions' Exhibition
Mr. H. B. Sweetapple, managing director of Walter Sully and Company Proprietary, Limited, has just received a letter from Mr. Walter Sully, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Panama Exhibition. the Australian Court. South Australian with Drawals
The Minister of External Affairs (Hon, P.M'M. Glynn), when questioned on Monday (says the "Express") regarding the progress made in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Fair Athlete
She could swing a six-pound dumbbell, She could fence and she could box She could row upon the river. She could clamber [?]mong the rocks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Carnival Night at Manly. Immense Crowd of Sightseers
Dancing in the street usually means arrest for riotous behavior. At Manly on Friday night, (says the "Sun" Sydney) it was a legalised proceeding…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The 'Frisco Exhibition. Sydney
The Premier announced on Saturday that he had definitely decided that the State should be represented at the San Francisco Exhibition of 1915…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Picture Show. Seventy-five People Perish. (Reuter's Message.) London
A telegram from Surabaya, on the north coast of Java, states that a fire broke out in a cinematograph theatre at Boeloes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Law Costs. Disqualification of Show Sheep. Adelaide
The disqualification of a Merino ram, owned by the Canowie Pastoral Company, at the September Show, 1912, and its removal after the owners had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chinese Music at Picture Show
Weird and unourthly sounds issuing from the lobby of the Colonial Theatre, in George-stract, Sydney, the other night (says the "Evening News'',…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Barrier Miner. Wednesday, February 4, 1914. the Flying Exhibition Next Saturday and Australia's Aviation Corps
The arrival in Broken Hill of an aeroplane and an aviator is an event of Importance altogether beyond the attraction it will be to sightseers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Amusements. Lenard's Show
Patrons of Pictureland will be able to seoe"An" Hour Before Dawn," and "The Tango Dance" to-night for the last time. The star picture in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tom Roberts. a Successful Exhibition. (Reuter's Message.) London
Mr. Tom Roberts, the well-known Australian artist, held a successful exhibition of his paintings in Bondstree to-day. His subjects were chiefly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Panama Exhibition. Melbourne
Mr. Glynn, Minister for External Affairs, has cabled to the Panama Exposition officials asking for an additional area of 50,000 square feet for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Proposed Swimming Carnival. Hickman and Wickham Invited to Broken Hill
"Mr. Alex. Wickham, the well-known swimmer and diving expert, and Mr. Oscar Hickman, the champion professional swimmer of Australia. will," said…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Cables. (Router's Messages.) San Francisco Exhibition. London
The British Cabinet has reconsidered the request that Great Britain should take a hand in the San Francisco Exhibition; and has adhered to its former…
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