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Hunter Valley · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1879

35 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 2

Merriwa. Fife and Drum Band

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 12 July 1879 · page 14

On the evening of July 2nd a performance was given by our lady and gentlemen amateurs, in aid of the above object, and I am glad to say was a financial success—a…

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District News. [From Various Correspondents.] Brisbane Water. Concert at East Gosford

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 12 July 1879 · page 14

On Saturday evening, the 5th July instant, a concert took place at the Church School, East Gosford, in aid of the fund for rebuilding the stable at the Anglican parsonage, for…

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Concert at Morpeth

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 12 July 1879 · page 12

On Tuesday evening a vocal and instrumental concert was given in the Morpeth School of Arts, by several lady and gentlemen amateurs, in aid of the funds of that…

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The Dance of the Dead. From the Grman of Goethe

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 2

THE sexton looked forth, at the mid-hour of night, O'er the tombs where the dead were reclining:…

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Mercantile Rowing Club Ball

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 July 1879 · page 3

The Mercantile Rowing Club's annual ball has also taken place, and was a great success. It was held in the Exhibition building, and was under the patronage of the…

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Two Pictures

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 20 August 1879 · page 1

THE Rev. R. T. Hills, addressing the annual, meeting of the Hunter River Congregational Association at Newcastle on Thursday night, spoke as…

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Complimentary Concert to Mr. Richardson

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 20 August 1879 · page 1

THE complimentary concert to Mr. F. W. Richardson, which has been on the tapis for some months past, took place at the School of Arts,…

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Theatre Dispute at Cambridge

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 August 1879 · page 5

Cambridge town is indignant at the University authorities refusing to give ther sanction to the conversion of the old Corn Exchange into a theatre. At least, at a meeting…

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Amateur Concert

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 6 September 1879 · page 2

The amateur concert, which had been unavoidably postponed from Thursday week, on account of the unfavourable weather, duly came off on Thursday last…

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Edwards' Walking Feat at the Victoria Theatre

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 20 September 1879 · page 4

Last evening W. Edwards, the champion long distance pedestrian, commenced his tedious and salfimposed task of walking one hundred and twenty miles in twenty-six hours, at the Victoria Theatre,…

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Two Pictures. (Boston paper, July 24.) the Mother

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 September 1879 · page 7

The poor Empress in her melancholy seclusion of Camden House has the sympathy of everybody, including the ladies who are her old enemies, and who would not admit once upon a time that she was a…

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Edwards' Great Walking Feat at the Victoria Theatre

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 September 1879 · page 5

Edwards, the champion long distance walter, finished his extraordinary feat of walking one hundred and twenty miles in twenty-six hours on Saturday evening. He commenced, as…

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Mr. Fitz-Stubbs' Concert

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 12

On Wednesday evening Mr. P. Fitz-Stubbs gave a high-class vocal and instrumental concert to a fashionable audience, assembled in the School of Arts, West Maitland. He was…

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Miscellany. Cigarettes.—song-and Dance

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 6 December 1879 · page 2

IN a mars of fairy smoke-wreaths That perfumed all the air, With her swett facs mirrored in the waves – Of a brooklet flowing there,…

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Poetry. Baby's Shadow-dance. (Youth's Companion.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1879 · page 13

Into the parlor she danced; the day, With its nursery-plays, was over; Now Papa, who had been long hours awe Soon would come to his little glrl-love…

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