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

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1894

361 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 11 of 19

Half-holiday Ball

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 August 1894 · page 2

THE half-holiday ball to-night will probably prove to be the social event of the season. An attendance of about fifty couples is expected, and the display of fancy and evening costumes will probably…

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A Girl Killed by a Cricket Ball

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 August 1894 · page 4

THE Sydney Coroner held an inquest on Tuesday, at the Golden Anchor Hotel, George-street West, on the body of a girl named Elsie Baker, who on Monday died at…

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Goulburn Half-holiday Association. the Second Annual Ball

Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 August 1894 · page 2

IN connection with the above association was held in the Academy of Music last evening, and proved a decided success. The hall was extensively and well decorated by the…

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Half-holiday Ball

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 August 1894 · page 4

EVERY inch of floor space at the Academy of Music was occupied on Thursday night by the gay revellers who took part in the Half-holiday Ball. The hall was tastefully decorated with flags, greenery,…

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Concert in Prohibition Hall

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 August 1894 · page 2

THE usual fortnightly entertainment in connection with the above hall took place last night and, judging from the manner in which the performers acquitted themselves, proved undoubtedly the best…

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Half-holiday Ball. (To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 August 1894 · page 3

SIR,—On Thursday last in the Academy of Music a ball was held, stated, by advertisement, as being given by the Half-holiday. Association, and understood by the public as such. Having heard rumours…

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The Late Hospital Ball

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 15 August 1894 · page 3

A meeting of the committee in connection with the above was held at McGuiness's Hotel on Saturday last, Mr. Moss being in the chair. It was found that, owing to several account's…

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The Recent Ball. (To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 August 1894 · page 2

SIR,—In reply to your correspondent, "Nabob," re Half-holiday Ball, I am, instructed by the committee of the Half-holiday and Early-closing Association to inform him, as he is not apparently aware of the…

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That Ball. (To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 August 1894 · page 2

SIR,—In reference to the ball, advertised as the half-holiday ball, in all deference to the hen see. to both the half-holiday association and the half-holiday ball, understood by the general public as…

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The Half-holiday (?) BALL. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 August 1894 · page 4

SIR,—My previous communication stated that rumours were afloat concerning the above. I now find the same were substantially true. Your organ and the Herald both reported the ball as being…

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Grand Concert

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 August 1894 · page 2

THE second of the series of concerts to be given in aid of Ss. Peter and Paul's Cathedral fund will be given in the Patrician Brothers' School-room, Bourke-street, on Friday, 31st August. The last…

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N.S.W. Art Gallery Pictures

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 August 1894 · page 2

IN connection with a magic lantern entertainment and service of song, to be given in Trinity Church Lecture Hall, to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, at eight o'clock, Mr. Fulton bas gone to considerable…

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Re R. T. Ball

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 August 1894 · page 3

AN examination in the estate of R. T. Ball was held in the Bankruptcy Court, Sydney, on Tuesday. The bankrupt deposed that he was a rolling-stock manufacturer, an engineer…

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Grand Concert

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 August 1894 · page 2

IN to-day' issue we publish the programme of a grand concert to be given next Friday evening in the Patrician Brothers' school-room, Bourke-street. The object of the concert is to raise fund towards…

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Smoke Concert

Goulburn Herald · Monday 27 August 1894 · page 2

In the evening the Yass team were treated to a couple of hours' enjoyment at a smoke concert hastily arranged by Mr. E. McDonald, secretary of the union, and others in the…

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Concert

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 August 1894 · page 2

THE concert in aid of SS. Peter and Paul's Cathedral in the Patrician Brothers' School-room on Friday evening next is expected to be quite as successful as its predecessor. One good feature…

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Pictures for Goulburn

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 29 August 1894 · page 2

A PRELIMINARY meeting was held in the Technical School on Tuesday afternoon to promote a lime-light entertainment, consisting of eighteen portraits of New South Wales…

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Orphanage Ball at Currawang

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 29 August 1894 · page 4

THIS ball as advertised took place at Currawang on Friday evening under highly auspicious circumstances. The weather being all that could be desired…

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Masquerade Skating Carnival and Ball

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 August 1894 · page 2

MR. MATHEWS has announced in our business columns his second carnival for to-morrow night. He has introduced an acceptable innovation by adding a couple of hours' dancing to the night's…

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N.S.W. Art Gallery Pictures

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 August 1894 · page 2

A PRELIMINARY meeting was held in the Technical School on Tuesday afternoon to promote a limelight entertainment consisting of 18 portraits of N.S.W. Art Gallery pictures. Mr. E. C. Bryden…

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