The Concert
In the evening a concert and prize distribution took place in the Mechanise' Institute. The hall was fairly well filled. The programme was introduced by two tableaux representing…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1888
50 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 3
CORRESPONDENCE. [The insertion of letters is no endorsement of their contents.] the Scone Concert. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)
DEAR SIR,—In your Issue of Saturday last a letter appears with reference to my report of the late Scene concert, in which a subscriber, under the non de plume of "Fair…
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THE Art Union in aid of the Roman Catholic Convent of this town was held in the School of Arts on New year's Day. the drawing was performed…
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A Theatre at Bolton was destroyed by fire shortly after midnight yesterday. It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary…
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Dear sir,—I hope you will enable me through the columns of your valuable journal to rofute the scandalous, cowardly, and urgentlemanly attack of "your…
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HAD it not been that there was a prep aderance of clear headed people in the Victoria Theatre on Friday night a serious disaster night have had to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FICTION. From English, American, and Other Periodicals. Doris Brandon. CHAPTER I. "I Have Set My Heart on Going to the Grand Ball."
"When you read what I have written here I shall be lying cold in death." The words were written by the trembling white land of a young girl, standing in her bridal robes…
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A considerable crowd of holiday folk gathered on the Carrington grounds in the afternoon to witness the opening proceeding in connexion with the intercolonial Bands contests. The prizes offered…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Alarm of Fire in a Vienna Theatre
Vienna telegrams report an alarm of fire on the night of Saturday, Dec. 18, at the first performance of Jolina Strauss's operetta, Simplicius, at the Threatre An der Wein. Some ladies in the pit of…
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The Grand Theatre, in Upper-street, Islington, was totally destroyed by fire on the morning of the 12th Dec. On the preceding ovening the pantomime of Whittington and His Cat was produced…
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A serious panic is stated to have occurred in the Edinburgh Theatre Royal on the evening of January 4th, which fortunately was unattended by any loss of life. While it…
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The Theatre Royal, Bolton, belonging to Mr. Elliston, was destroyed by fire on the morning of Jan. 4. The theatre, where the the pantomime Blue Beard was being played,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Moonlight Concert at Lochinvar. (From a correspondent.)
On Tuesday evening last the quiet little village of Lochinvar was the seene of a successful moon[?] light concert, held in the pas[?]nage grounds of Trinity Church. The walks, lawn, and parsonage…
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M. Francisque Sarecy is a courageous man he has opened a campaign against ladies' bonnets at the play. He says the monumental height of feminine head gear at the…
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The concert held in the [?]land School of Arts, on Friday evening, in aid of the Irish Evicted Tenant's Fund attracted a large and enthusiastic audience who appealed to throughly enjoy the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bachelors' Ball at Blackville. (From our Yarraman Correspondent.)
The eve of the 16th March, 1888, will long be remembered by those who accepted the invitation to the bachelors' evening party. When your scribe arrived he was amazed at the number of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Largs Plain and Fancy Dress Ball. (From a correspondent.)
This long-talked-of and anxiously-looked-for event came off in the hall of the local School of Arts on the night of the 8th inst., and was an overwhelming success. The affair, which was under…
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According to a telegram received in London on February 28, the Union Square Theatre was burned on February 28, together with the larger part of the Morton House Hotel, which stands in the square…
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Never in the history of amateur theatricals in West Maitland can such a series of successes be recorded as those which marked the production of "The Streets of New…
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THURSDAY evening, 25th April, saw a crowded house in the Scone School of Arts, he performance being for the benefit of a St. Luke's Church organ…
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