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Hunter Valley · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1907

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Theatre Burned Down. Dramatic Swiftness of Destruction

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 March 1907 · page 5

The Royal Court Theatre, Warrington, was burnt out in the early hours of the morning of the 25th December. Christmas Eve witnessed the opening…

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Bean Bog Basket Ball

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 5

Suspend a basket by a rope from a doorway or some other place where it can swing freely. Place the first player at a certain distance from It and give…

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Theatre Burned Down. Dramatic Swiftness of Destruction

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 5

The Royal Court Theatre, Warrington, was burnt out in the early hours of the morning of the 25th December. Christmas Eve witnessed the opening…

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Concert at Vacy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 4

People interested in the welfare of the Vacy United Cricked Club and the School of Arts are likely to patronise a grand concert to be held in the School of Arts, Vacy, on the…

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Injury from a Cricket Ball

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 2

A little boy named Prank Gilligan, son of Mr. Denis Gilligan, of West Maitland, was operated on at the hospital yesterday for an abscess on the hip, the result of an injury caused some time ago through…

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Grand Concert

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 2

A grand concert is announced to be given in the Largs School of Arts on Saturday evening next, in aid of the funds of the institution…

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Band in Burdekin Park

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 March 1907 · page 4

Weather permitting, the Singleton Town Band, under Bandmaster Fitness, will render a programme of popular music to-morrow, at 3.30 p.m.,…

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Grand National Concert

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 23 March 1907 · page 2

A grand national concert took place in the School of Arts, Cessnock, on Friday evening, [?] inst. Although the night was wet and the roads dirty,…

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Scone Band. Annual Meeting

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1907 · page 2

THE postponed annual meeting of the local Town Band was held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Saturday night last, when there were present:…

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Convent Concert

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 26 March 1907 · page 3

It is always refreshing after the commonplaces of the day, to attend a concert where the rich young voices of little children make sweet music; and…

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Verto's Entertainers and Living Pictures

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 2

Local theatre-goers will learn with pleasure that Mr. Percy Verto, will, on Thursday evening next, renew his acquaintance at the Oddfellows' Hall,…

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Verto Entertainers, and Pictures

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 March 1907 · page 1

Local play goers will learn with pleasure that Mr. Percy Verto, who, as on amusement entrepreneur, has achieved well merited popularity in…

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Concert at Lochinvar

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 March 1907 · page 4

A grand concert will be given at Lochinvar on Easter Tuesday evening by the pupils of St. Joseph's Convent. The proceeds will go towards defraying the cost of the new buildings…

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St. Joseph's Convent, Lochinvar. Grand Concert

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 April 1907 · page 5

With the view of raising funds towards defraying the cost of the new buildings now in course of erection in connection with St. Joseph's Convent, Lochinvar, an…

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Romany Band

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1907 · page 5

Dungogites are musical epicures. Their palates have been tickled by high-class concerts times out of number; their appetites regaled by…

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Pictures by Telegraph. Wonders of Electricity

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 April 1907 · page 5

Mr Duddell's third Christmas lecture at the Royal Institution (London) was an illustration of modern electric telegraph signalling, and he began by…

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Federal Band Social

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 4

Socials in aid of the Federal Band uniform land are announced to be held in the School of Arts on Thursday and Friday evenings next, commencing at 8 o'clock…

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Ball & Supper

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 3

In the evening a ball and supper was held in the School of Arts. There was a large attendance—75 couples took part in the dancing. The music…

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His Majesty's Moving Theatre

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 4

His Majesty's Moving Theatre, which has enjoyed a tour of unparalleled success throughout the northern districts of New South Wales, and which played a very successful season in Maitland some…

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Pictures by Telegraph. Wonders of Electricity

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 3

Mr Duddell's third Christmas lecture at the Royal Institution (London) was an illustration of modern electric telegraph signalling, and he began by…

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