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

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1887

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Local & General News. Yass Hospital Ball

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 17 May 1887 · page 2

A MEETING of the general committee of the Yass hospital ball was held at Ward's Royal Hotel on last Thursday evening. The members present were Drs. Thane and Messrs A. W…

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Goulburn Police Court. Monday, May 16. BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Mr. E. Ball, J.P. DRUNKENNESS

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 May 1887 · page 4

One defendant did not appear in answer to a charge of being drunk in a public place. He had been admitted to bail, and the amount deposited (20s) was ordered to be forfeited…

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Bowning Concert

The Yass Courier · Friday 27 May 1887 · page 3

A CONCERT was held in our quiet town on the 20th inst., for the purpose of raising some money for the benefit of old Mr. and Mrs. James, who lately came from the Bendinine…

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Fire in a Parisian Theatre London, May 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 4

A terrible fire, attended with great loss of life, took place yesterday in Paris, when the Opera Comique was totally destroyed. The scene during the…

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The Scottish Concert

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 2

Never before was the Mechanics’ Hall crowded to such an extent as on the night of Queen’s Birthday, the largest of large audiences congregating there to have “ twa hours at hame.” It is not…

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Local & General News. Concert

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 31 May 1887 · page 2

AN unusually large and appreciative audience witnessed the excellent programme presented on Queen's Birthnight by local amateurs at the Mechanics' Institute—the object of the…

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Goulburn Police Court. Monday, June 6. Before Messrs. S. Meyer, J.P., and E. Ball, M.P. Letting Off Fireworks

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 June 1887 · page 4

Frank Buist was summoned by Constable Armstrong for unlawfully lotting off fireworks in Auburn-street on the night of the 24th May. Defended pleaded guilty…

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Tea-meeting and Concert

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 June 1887 · page 2

THE Dawn of Day Lodge celebrate their fifth anniversary to-night by a tea-meeting and concert in the Primitive Methodist School-room. The G.W.V.T., Bro. N. T. Collins, will preside…

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Presbyterian Tea-meeting and Concert

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 10 June 1887 · page 3

THE tea-meeting and concert in connection with the Crookwell Presbyterian church will take place this evening in the Temperance Hall. The tea will be on the…

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Dawn of Day Lodge, I.o.g.t. Anniversary Tea and Concert

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 4

A VERY successful tea and concert took place in the Primitive Methodist Schoolroom, Lagoon-street, on Thursday evening in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the above lodge. There…

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Tea and Concert

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 June 1887 · page 2

ATTENTION is directed to the tea and concert to be hold in the Y. M. C. A. rooms to-morrow evening in aid of the funds of the association. Tea is announced to be on the tables at 6.30,…

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Presbyterian Tea-meeting and Concert

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 17 June 1887 · page 2

THE annual tea-meeting and entertainment in connection with the Presbyterian church in Crookwell took place in the Temperance Hall on Friday evening last,…

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Theatre Licenses

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 June 1887 · page 2

THE theatre licenses now being issued by the Colonial Secretary to the proprietors and lessoes of the theatres contain the following new provision:—" Provided that such theatre,…

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News by Cable. the Grosvenor Collection of Pictures. London, June 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 June 1887 · page 2

The Earl of Buckingham will sail for Australia in August, in charge of the Grosvenor collection of a hundred pictures…

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Hospital Ball

The Yass Courier · Friday 24 June 1887 · page 2

which was held in the hall of the Mechanics' lastitute, on Monday night. For the last two years the committee of the Yass hospital, and the medical officers, have…

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The Concert

The Yass Courier · Friday 24 June 1887 · page 2

which was held, in connection with the Oddfellows sports, in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute on Tuesday fright. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the hall was…

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Masonic Ball

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 June 1887 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Herald

THE annual ball of the Duke of Edinburgh Lodge, 645, S.C., took place last evening in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute, and afforded the means of passing a pleasant evening to…

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The Masonic Ball

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 28 June 1887 · page 2

IT was notified in our last that it was our intention to give some further particulars of this event in this issue, but a lady correspondent has supplied us with the following and has thus relieved us from the…

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Surprise Concert at the Hospital

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 June 1887 · page 2

WHAT may almost be termed a " surprise" concert, though the promoters had the forethought to give notice an hour or two beforehand of their intention, was given to the patients…

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