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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1879

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Proposed Concert

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 May 1879 · page 3

FOR to-morrow evening, at half-past seven o’clock, Mr. G. F. Mitchell has convened a meeting of local musicians, who will meet at Mr. Haymore’s musical repository. It is…

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Hospital Concert

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 May 1879 · page 4

ON Wednesday, the 28th, Mr. G. F. Mitchell and several popular amateurs intend giving a concert in the Goulburn Mechanics’ in aid of the building fund for the separate ward of…

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Goulburn Fancy Ball

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 May 1879 · page 4

THE Fancy Dress Ball has been wisely postponed until Friday (to-morrow) week. This kind of weather would seriously lessen the attendance of residents in town, while…

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Goulburn Hospital Ball

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Monday 26 May 1879 · page 2

THE long talked of fancy ball in aid of the fund for building a fever ward to the Goulburn hospital took place on Friday night. The company commenced to arrive at a quarter past eight p.m., by which time…

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Concert in Goulburn

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 May 1879 · page 4

GOULBURN has redeemed its character for being a city in which good music is appreciated. Last night the concert organised by Mr. Mitchell proved an undoubted success…

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Hospital Concert

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 31 May 1879 · page 2

IT being intended to erect a separate yard at the Goulburn hospital for the reception of patients suffering from fever and other infectious diseases, and the government having placed on the estimates…

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Concert in Goulburn

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 May 1879 · page 3

ON Wednesday evening last Mr. G. F. Mitchell gave a concert in the Mechanics’ Institute, in aid of the funds for the feverwards. The front seats and gallery were…

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City Band Anniversary

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 June 1879 · page 3

THE members composing the Goulburn City Band intend celebrating their anniversary on Friday night next by a Select Quadrille Assembly, which will take place in the hall…

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City Band Anniversary

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 June 1879 · page 4

THE anniversary of the formation of the Goulburn City Band was celebrated by a Grand Quadrille Assembly, which took place last night in the hall of the Mechanics’ Institute. About forty couples…

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The City Band

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 June 1879 · page 3

WE are pleased to be able to inform the public that the members of the Goulburn City Band, under the leadership of Mr. Harry White, intend playing some of their choicest…

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Tea-Meeting and Concert at Gunning

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 July 1879 · page 4

WE would direct the attention of our readers at and around Gunning to the tea-meeting and concert that has been arranged to take place at that township to-morrow (Friday)…

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Gunning. Sale of Fancy Goods, Tea-meeting, and Concert

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Monday 7 July 1879 · page 2

ON Friday last a sale of fancy goods (the balance from the late bazaar held in Gunning) took place in the old Wesleyan church, the proceeds of which with that of the concert held in the evening were in…

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Concert at Bungendore

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 July 1879 · page 4

OUR readers at the above township and the district around will do well to bear in mind the concert and tea-meeting which have been arranged to place at the court-house there on Friday next,…

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Concert at Dalton

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 July 1879 · page 4

AT seven o’clock on Wednesday evening a concert was held in the top floor of the Dalton Steam Flour Mill, which had only been opened for business a few hours…

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Wesleyan Band of Hope and Total Abstunence Society

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 30 July 1879 · page 2

THE annual meeting in [?]nexion with the Westhyam Biand of Hoper and Tetas Abstinence Society was held in the [?] find night. There was a [?]gar gathering the body of the hail…

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Wesleyan Band of Hope

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 July 1879 · page 7

THE annual meeting of the Wesleyan Band of Hope was held on Tuesday evening in the Lecture Hall, Goldsmith-street, which was well filled by the members and their…

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Primitive Methodist Band of Hope

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 August 1879 · page 3

TO-MORROW (Wednesday) evening a meeting in connection with the above will be held in the schoolroom at the rear of the Lagoon-street church, commencing at half-past seven…

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Band of Hope

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 August 1879 · page 5

A MEETING of the Band of Hope in connection with the Primitive Methodists, Goulburn, was held in their schoolroom on Wednesday evening last. The night was dark…

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Queanbeyan News. Town Band

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 August 1879 · page 3

ON Tuesday night last a public meeting was held in the Oddfellows’ Hall to devise means for raising the necessary funds to defray the expenses of carrying on the local band. The attendance was…

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Concert

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 6 September 1879 · page 2

A grand concert was given in the Oddfellows’ Hall, on the night of the Show, in aid of the debt on Saint Joseph’s R. C. Church. The hall was crowded to excess, and I believe that the audience…

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