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Hunter Valley · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1877

12 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Scone School of Arts. Annual Meeting and Concert. (From our own Correspondent.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 February 1877 · page 6

On Wednesday evening a very large audienoe assembled at the School of Arts, the occasion being the annual meeting and concert in connection with the Sohool of Arts. The large…

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The Brooklyn Theatre Tragedy. Further Particulars—the Remains of 316 Bodies Recovered

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1877 · page 7

American journals, by the San Francisco mail, give further particulars of the horrible tragedy which occurred through the burning of the Brooklyn Theatre. The journals state that the…

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Dressed for the Ball

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1877 · page 2

If you send out invitations for a fancy dress ball don't ask a [?] at least that is this advice Lady-would give you. Her ball was a great [?] but it was by…

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A Bank Clerk Arrested at a Ball

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 21 March 1877 · page 4

ON a recent Tuesday night, a young man, who was a clerk in the Kendal branch of the bancaster Bank, was apprehended in Liverpool, under rather…

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Largs School of Arts Concert

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 June 1877 · page 3

A concert in aid of the Largs Sohool of Arts was given in the Catholic sehoolroom of that township on Friday evening last, by a number of amateurs living in the vicinity, assisted by…

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Concert at [?]nton. Presentation to Th[?] Dr. Boag

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 July 1877 · page 2

On Friday evening [?] grand vocal and instrumental concert was gen by the members of the "Band of Courage" [?]ty in the Hinton School of Arts. The [?] of the…

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Brisbane Water. Gband Concert at the New School Room At GOSFO[?]D

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1877 · page 10

On Thursday evening, the 28th instant, an u[?] usually successful, well-attended concert was given in the new Public school-room at West Gosford, [?] aid of an excursion and school feast for the children…

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The Ball

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 15 August 1877 · page 3

Quirindi has earned for itself an enviable notoriety in fashionable circle for the excellence of the first entertainment to which it courageously invited the outside world. At…

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Joe Thompson at the Governor's Ball

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 8 September 1877 · page 3

"BOHEMIAN" in his odd notes in the Brisbane Week narrates the following delicious morcean, which we thing too good to be lost:—…

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Californian Mail Extracts Lung-sing and the Indians. How a Chinese Miner Held the Fort Against a Band of Sioux. (From the Cincinnati Enquirer.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 27 October 1877 · page 15

Deadwood, D. T. Aug. 2—When Boston Town, in the Black Hills, and about thirty miles from Deadwood, woke up one morning and found a Chinaman walking around with his kit on his…

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The Morals of the Theatre

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 5 December 1877 · page 1

THE BISHOP of MELBOURNE'S letter relating to theatrical representions published in the Melbourne Daily Telegraph, which we reprint in anothor…

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Dominican Convent Annual Concert

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 15 December 1877 · page 10

The annual entertainment given by the pupils of the Dominican Convent took place on Tuesday evening, in St. John's school-room, Victoria-street, before a large and appreciative audience, who were…

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