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Hunter Valley · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1846

2 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Ferocious Band of Robbers

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 4 March 1846 · page 4

A trial which has highly interested the inhabitants of the Pyrénées Orientales, commenced on the 2nd September, before the Court of Assizes at…

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British Extracts. the Puppet Play of the Death of Napoleon. (From Dickens's Pictures from Italy.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 28 October 1846 · page 4

I went another night to see these puppets act a play called "St. Helena; or, the Death of Napoleon." It began by the disclosure of Napoleon, with an immense head, seated on…

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