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Hunter Valley · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1894

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The Hallewell Concert Party

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 January 1894 · page 3

THERE was a good attendance in the front seats at the performance given by the Hallewll Concert Party in the large hall of the Mechanies Institute…

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A Lost Band

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1894 · page 6

Many of the funniest stories and quaintest sayings come to us from Scotland, where the people have not a great deal of time for joking, but are, nevertheless, continually doing…

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Oddfellows Ball

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1894 · page 3

The Ball at the School of Arts on Friday night though well attended was not so great a success as on former occasions. The ladies were dressed…

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Ball at Tambar Springs

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 February 1894 · page 1

The bachelors of Tambar held their annual ball in the Masonic Hall on Friday last, the 9th inst. Every preparation was made to make the affair a success, and the plain old brick structure was with…

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Ball at Tambar Springs

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1894 · page 6

The bachelors of Tambar held their annual ball in the Masonic Hall on Friday last, the 9th inst. Every preparation was made to make the affair a success, and the plain old brick structure was with…

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Sunday Concert Question. Concerts to be Stopped. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 21 February 1894 · page 3

THE Government are taking prompt action with regard to Sunday Concerts and the law against them will be enforced. It is not considered…

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[?] Ball [?] "Paulina Lisle."] [?] Ix Which Records a Tragedy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 March 1894 · page 4

" Jemima Ann !" says Mile. Mimi. She is lying in her customary afternoon lounging attitude upon the parlour sofa, occupied in her usual afternoon fashion in smoking cigarettes, and teaching her…

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Why Actresses Mare Better Pictures Than Other Women

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1894 · page 3

"I no not say," said an old photographer "that an actress invariably makes a better photograph, but I do say that a woman who understands posture does…

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Themechanics' Institute and the Band of Hope. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 March 1894 · page 2

SIR,—I see by a paragraph; in your paper of Saturday last the Committee of the Mechanics Institute refused the free use of the hall of the Institute…

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Concert v. Jachson

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 March 1894 · page 3

Corbett, the champion, pugilist of the world, declares that ho will not light Jackson ontside the United States…

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Baying Pretty Pictures

The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 March 1894 · page 1

A pretty nursery screen is made by covering the panels with any solid background desired, black, dark red or brown, and pasting pictures out from nursery tales upon…

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Ball at Wangat

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1894 · page 3

A ball to celebrate the opening of the Miners Hall recently erected by Messrs Boyle and Box, was held at Wangat on Friday, 6th inst., and in…

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Phyllis Perrier Concert

Singleton Argus · Saturday 21 April 1894 · page 5

THE concert to be tendered to Little Phyllis at the Mechanics' Institute on Tuesday evening next is making rapid progress, and promises to be most…

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Baby Phyllis Perrier Concert

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 April 1894 · page 2

THERE was a good attendance in the front seats at the benefit concert to Baby Phylhs Perrier in the hall o£ the Blechanics' Institute last, night, but…

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Concert and Ball

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 May 1894 · page 2

The concert held in the Centennial Hall on Thursday evening last, in aid of the Dungog Convent, was a signal success. The curtain rose to a house…

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Concert

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 May 1894 · page 2

The concert held in the Protestant Hall on Wednesday evening last in aid of the Wesleyan Church, was a very great success, both as far as the…

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Chrysanthemum Show and Concert at East Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 May 1894 · page 3

This evening at half-past seven his Lordship the Bishop of Newcastle will declare open in the Mechanics' Institute, East Maitland, a Chrysanthemum Show in aid of St. Peter's Church. A concert…

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Chrysanthemum Show and Concert at East Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 May 1894 · page 4

The show, which we briefly described yesterday, was opened last evening by the Lord Bishop of Newcastle, ia the presence of a goodly number of visitors. The purpose of the entertainment was to…

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East Maitland Liedertafel Concert

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 May 1894 · page 2

One of the most enjoyable of the many good concerts given by the Maitland Liedertafel was presented to a large and fashionable audience in the Maitland Mechanics' Institute last night. Mr…

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After the Ball

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 June 1894 · page 6

Miss Prim: " I don't like dancing with Captain Smith. He doesn't hold his partner tight enough." Maud[?] "Really, I never should have…

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