Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Pictures, dances & concerts, all years

Illawarra · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1865

5 stories in Illawarra's papers

A Horse in a Ball Room

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 17 March 1865 · page 4

At our last public ball, I created rather a sensation and afforded subject for a week's full gossip, by carrying out the mad suggestion started by some of my wild brother subs, that I should ride…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Destruction of the Surrey Theatre by Fire

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 28 April 1865 · page 4

In the last Home News we had to record the destruction of a great theatre in our northern capital, and we have now to announce an accident of a similar nature. For the second time the old…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

District News. Woonona. Concert at Bui[?]

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 18 July 1865 · page 2

The concert connected with the Presbyterian Church, which took place at the Scho 1 of Arts, on Thursday evening, the 13th instant, was highly successful one. There were twenty-one performers…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Time Ball (Substitute) for Mudgee

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 10 August 1865 · page 4

The necessity for a standard whereby to regulate our time-pieces has long been felt in Mudgee. Mr. Aldwell, our telegraph master, has at length supplied this…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Concert

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 7 September 1865 · page 2

CONCERT.—The concert given by the choir of the Wollongong Roman Catholic Church will be noticed in our next, as we went to press last night before full…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →