Two Pictures
An old farmhouse with meadows wide, And sweet with clever on each side; A bright eyed boy, who looks from out The door with woodbine wrea[?]bed about,…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1887
52 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 3
The Pitt-street Congregational Church and the Theatre
Previous to delivering his sermon on "National Righteousness" at the Congregational Church, Pittstreet, lost night, (says Monday's Herald) the Rev. Dr. Jefferis referred to the fact of an hotel license…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fancy Dress Ball at Murrurundi
On the 18th of February I, having been invited to the fancy dress ball given by Dr. and Mrs. Bell to celobrate the anniversary of their wedding day, took train to the ancient township of Murrurundi,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. R. Randolph Arndell's Evening Concert
As might have been safely predicted, Mr. R. Randolph Arndell was welcomed on Wednesday evening as the promoter of a vocal and instrumental concert by a large and fashionable audience…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Late Ball and Supper. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
Sir,—The report furnished by your Raymond Terrace correspondent of the ball and supper held on the 17th March, and which appeared in your issue of the 26th, has been contradicted. An…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Original Correspondence. a Constant Visitor and the Town Band. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—Will you please allow me space for a few lines concerning the Town Band, having noticed in last Saturday's Mercury (of the 2nd instant) where "A Constant Visitor" suggests the Band should…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Wonderful Egg Dance
A traveller gives a pretty description of the graceful egg-dance which was performed for his amusement in the Court of Bhopal, India. It shows that our sword-dancers and our young ladies of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rix's Creek Concert
The concert in aid of the Rix's Crook cricket club came off on Wednesday night last, when large end appreciative audience assembled to witness the performance. At 8 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Her Mother's Sin! CHAPTER XX.-(Continued.) The principal guest, the Duke of Spalding, opened the ball with Lady Ryeford. The Duke and Duchess of
The scheme was after Lady Marcin's own heart; she was model " Lady Bountiful," end, having ascertaiued from the Earl how much money might be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Poetry. the Daddy Long-legs' Ball
Two daddys met at a daddy's ball; The daddys were slim, the daddys were tall. The dance was held in a garden fair. And many the daddys that gathered there…
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The mayoress's Juvenile Fancy [?] Ball last night was a brilliant [?] There were about 2500 children p[?] The Governor, Lady Carrington, [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Builder of the First Theatre in Edinburgh
From his 45th yeal onward till his death at the age of 72 in 1758, Ramsay occupied himself chiefly with the enjoyment of his liteiary fame and the society or welfare of his childien, and with the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Mayor of Sydney's Juvenile Ball. (Mail.)
The juvenile fancy dress ball given by the children of the Mayor and Mayoress of Sydney, in honour of her Majesty's jubilee, in the Exhibition Building, on Thursday evening, was one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →St. Patrick's School Concert
THE concert hold in the Mechanics' Institute on Monday evening in aid of the funds of St. Patrick's B. C. School, was moderately well attended, though a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Theatre Burned Down
The Opern Comique, Paris, has been totally destroyed by fire, Twenty persons conuected with the company were killed, and sixty persons are known to bo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hints to Ball Givers and their Patrons
The following article, from the London Saturday Review, may prove somewhat interesting to those of our readers who are interested in the getting up of balls or accepting invitations for same, besides…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Moliere's Theatre in Paris
A good deal has been written about the Comédie Fran[?]aise (remarks the Paris correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph), but a volume which is about to appear relating to the celebrated theatre…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sunday Concerts
A deputation from the Ministers' Union waited upon Sir Henry Parkes to-day, to ask him to enforce the law against Sunday concerts and lectures…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sunday Concerts
It is stated that the Premier stopped the lectures and Sunday concerts because the lessees were acting outside their licenses, and that he does not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sunday Concerts Question. (By Telegraph). Sydney
A FULL Cabinet meeting was held yesterday, when the action of the Premier in closing the theatres on Sundays was unanimously approved of…
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