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

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1898

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Our Boys Band

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 4

AT a meeting if the members of the above the yearly report was read. During the year the band held 108 rehearsals; gave 28 public performances— 18 gratuitously and 10 paid, amounting to…

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Goulburn City Band

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 January 1898 · page 2

As already announced, the name of the Our Boys Band has been changed to that of the Goulburn City Band. The ban has an influential set of office-bearers, whose names appear elsewhere, and…

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Goulburn City Band

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1898 · page 2

THE annual meeting was recently held, when it was decided to alter the name of the band hitherto known as Our Boys and to call it the Goulburn City Band. The report showed…

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Likened to a Leader Ball. Peculiar Case of a Contractor

The Yass Courier · Friday 21 January 1898 · page 2

Mr. Larry Foran a contractor and ganger, of Kerosene Bay, North Sydney, to a reporter from the Sydney "Worker," who questioned him as to his recovery from a wearisome illness by taking…

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Good Templar Concert

Goulburn Herald · Friday 21 January 1898 · page 5

A VERY successful and thoroughly enjoyable concert was hold last evening in the Temperance Hall, Goldsmith-street, under the auspices of the Hope of Goulburn Lodge of…

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The European Concert. London, Jan. 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 2

Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, late Secretary of State for War, in the course of a speech, expressed great satisfaction at Mr. Chamberlain's admission as to the possibility of Great Britain avoiding…

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The Concert

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 January 1898 · page 2

As usual the concert in the evening drew together an immense audience. The Oddfellows' Hall was crammed, the only seats remaining without occupants at the commencement being a few at the…

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Ye Concert

Goulburn Herald · Friday 28 January 1898 · page 5

Appropriately the annual gatherings in Goulburn conclude with a concert in the Oddfellows' Hall, which are always exceedingly well attended; and Wednesday night…

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With Bat and Ball

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 February 1898 · page 2

George Giffen's "With Bat and Ball," being twenty-five years of Australian and Anglo-Australian cricket, will arrive in the colonies at the end of January. It will consist of…

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Moonlight Concert

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 February 1898 · page 2

THE Primitive Methodists are not slaves to conventionality. On Tuesday evening next they will make a new departure in the shape of a moonlight concert, which will be given on the grounds…

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Concert at Yarra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 February 1898 · page 2

QUITE a large number of Goulburn visitors attended the concert in the Yarra Primitive Methodist Church last evening in aid of the funds of the church. About forty of these did the trip on…

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Moonlight Concert

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 February 1898 · page 2

THE moonlight concert thin evening on the grounds at the rear of the Primitive Methodist Church should be well attended. Besides band selections there will be attractive items by local…

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Moonlight Concert

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 February 1898 · page 2

A PLEASING innovation in the form of a moonlight concert was given at the rear of the Primitive Methodist Church on Tuesday evening. There was an attendance of about 200 persons, and Mr. E…

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Choir Concert

Goulburn Herald · Friday 11 February 1898 · page 2

A concert in aid of the Cathedral choir boys' fund will be hold Tuesday evening. Mr. Ibbs has arranged an excellent programme…

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The Band of the Australian Horse

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 2

LAST evening Mr. W. F. Hutchinson, bandmaster of the Permanent Artillery, examined the band of the Fret Regiment of the Australian Horse, and was, we understand, favourably impressed with…

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Concerts

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 2

ON Tuesday evening next a grand concert will be given in the Church-Hall by St. Saviour's Cathedral choir and friends. As it will be under the direction of Mr. F. M. Ibbs, a good programme…

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Imperial Parliament.—the European Concert. London, Feb. 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 2

The session of the Imperial Parliament was opened yesterday. In the House of Lords the Address-in-Reply to the speech from the Throne was adopted…

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Gunning on the Move! Opening of a Roller Flour-mill. Ye Town En Fete.—ye Mill Starts.—residents Jubilant.—an Enterprising Young Townsman.—ye Old Order and Ye New.—public Banquet.—appropriate Speeches.—ye Town Band Discoursete Eloquent Music

Goulburn Herald · Monday 14 February 1898 · page 2

SATURDAY last will remain for many years a "red letter day" in the minds of the people of Gunning, for on that day they celebrated with enthusiasm the re-opening, with entirely…

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Town Band

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 15 February 1898 · page 2

WE understand the members of the Crookwell Town Band have awakened from their long lethargy, and are once more in active practice, so that…

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Concert

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 February 1898 · page 2

AN excellent programme has been provided for the concert to be given in S. Saviour's Church Hall this evening. The Cathedral choir will sing glees and part songs, and songs, &c., will be given by…

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