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Hunter Valley · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1868

5 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

The Citizens' Ball. (Abridged from the Empire.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1868 · page 2

The Citizens' Reception Ball to his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, with which was also combined the first public invitation to his Excellency the Right Honorable the Earl of…

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Further News. (From the Herald's Melbourne correspondent.) Destruction of the Queen's Theatre by Fire

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1868 · page 2

The Queen's Theatre was destroyed by fire on the 6th December. It was discovered at a quarter before eleven in the evening, and in a few minutes after the flames burst through the…

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Prince Alfred. Public Fancy Ball to the Duke of Edinburgh. (Abridged from the Empire.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1868 · page 2

The public fancy ball to his Boyal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, K.G., given at the Prince of Wales Theatre, on Tuesday night, was one of the most effective demonstrations of…

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(From Monday's Herald.) Extraction of the Ball

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1868 · page 2

It is gratifying to know that his Royal Highness continues to progress favaurably towards convalescence. At 8.o'clock on Saturday morning last the bullet that has awakened the keenest anxiety in tens of thousands of…

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Sons of Temperance Concert

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 May 1868 · page 3

A very large audience assembled last night in the hall of the Sohool of Arts, to hear the concert given by the members of the Sons of Temperance. The programme consisted principally of concerted pieces performed by the…

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