Sunday Concerts
An agitation is being steadily organised against the Sunday concerts which for some months have taken place on Sunday evenings in the subarbs and principal theatres of…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1886
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Science. Sun Pictures. The Perfection Which Photegraphy has Attrined How Portraits of Distinguished Persons Are Placed Within the Reach of Allapplication of Solar Impression to Art and Science
DAGURREOTTPE was the name under which printing by light first became generally known some forty five years ago ; true it is that pictures had previously been taken by means…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →St. Patrick's R. C. C. Concert
THE Mechanics' Institute was crowded to excess on Tuesday evening last, on the occasion of the concert in aid of the building fund of St. Patrick's R. C. Church Long…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatal fire in a Theatre
THE Grand Theatre at Derby was totally destroyed by fire an the night of May 8 just before the time at which a performance was to be given by Mr. Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, July 3, 1886. Masonic Ball at West Maitland
The ball which took place at the School of Art, West Maltland, on Thursday evening, in connection with the Maitland Lodge of Unity, No. 517, E.C., was a conspicuous success, and the lodge is to be complimented on the general…
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THE concert in aid of the funds of the Mechanics' Institute and Singleton Benevolent Asylum was well patronised on Tuesday evening last, and everything passed…
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On Friday evening a successful concert was given in the School of Arts, West Maitland. The entertainment was arranged by the members of St. Mary's Young Men's Society, as a means of obtaining…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Goulburn River. Athletic Festival and Concert
This combination of amusements took place on Friday, July 9th. There was a very large concourse of people present in the paddock during the day, and at the concert in the evening the attendance…
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The Guildhall ball on the 25th inst. will be (with the single exception of the fete given on the return of the Prince of Wales from India) the biggest civic function on record. The Lord Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Remembrance. (In the Theatre.)
Dear, shall I count the two short happy years, And say: On such a day we laughed and sung;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PRÆTERITA. (In The Theatre.) Donee non alia magis Arsisti neque erat Lydia post Chloen; Multi Lydia nominis Romana vigui clarior Illia. HORACE
We met and parted when we both bad youth! Under life's finger-post Yes! you and I! You were on pleasure bent: I sought the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Complimentary Concert
THE hall of the Mechanics' Institute was fairly well filled on Monday evening last, on the occasion of the complimentary concert tendered to Mr W. E. Keighley. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Concerts at the Victoria Theatre
The success which attended the concerts held in the Victoria Theatre on Friday and Saturday evenings goes far to prove the excellent good feeling prevalentin West Maitland amongst all…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FICTION. from English, American, and Other P[?]iod[?]cals. the Gypsy. Chapter I. THE PRINCE's BALL
Moscow had risen from her ruins; and the sacred city of the czars blazed with that semi-oriental splendor, which gives it so peculiar a fascination in the eyes of the Western visitor. Years had passed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miller's Forest. I. O. G. T. Tea and Concert
The Flower of the Forest Lodge I. O. G. T. celebrated its anniversary in the Church of England Schoolroom on Wednesday, the 8th inst., in the form of a tea and concert. The weather was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Town Band for East Maitland
In response to a requisition addressed to the Mayor a public meeting of townspeople of East Maitland was held in the Mechanics' Institute, on Thursday evening, to discu[?]s the deshableness of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Regimental Band in Tamworth
On Saturday morning the members of the band of the 4th or Northern Regiment residing in Maitland joined their comrades on the morning train and proceeded to Tamworth, which town was reached in the afternoon. At the railway station they were…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fancy Dress Ball. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—I notice in the report of the recent fancy dress ball of "Our Social Club" it is stated that I was M.C. As such was not the case, I would take it as a favour if you would make the correction in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Second Sheet to the Maitland Mercury. Saturday, October 23, 1886. the Iron Band and Its Results
As his Excellency pointed out at the Tenterfield banquet on Tuesday, the communication by railway between the capitals of Australia is complete with the exception of two gaps…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Rovers C. C. Concert
THE concert which took place under the auspices of the Rovers' Cricket Club on the night of the Prince of Wales Birthday was well patronised, and the…
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