Cricketers' Ball at Broughton Village. (CONTRIBUTED)
THE annual ball in connection with the Broughton Village Cricket Club was held in the School of Arts hall, Gerringong, on Boxing night, and was a great success…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1898
75 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 4
Wollongong Band Contest. Another Victory for Newtown. Gympie Oddfellows Win the March
It may be admitted at the outset that the Wollongong band contest of 1898 was a failure. Although nine or ten bands had entered for the various competitions only four…
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ONE of the most, enjoyable concerts held at Jamberoo was witnessed in. the School of Arte Bull on Wednesday. night last, There were over 200 people present…
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Mr. J. Kirby, secretary to the recent band contest committee, has kindly supplied us with copies of the adjudicator's detailed reports on the various…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Concert at Unanderra
A correspondent writes:—A concert in aid of the funds of the Unanderra C.C. was held in the council chambers, Unanderra, on Friday evening, and it proved a great…
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It was decided at a meeting if the Band Contest Committee on Thursday night is strike a leavy of 15s on all guarantors in order to meet the accounts against the committee…
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Two entries were made fool the Band contest namely—the 8hellharbour and Nowra Brass Bands. The Shellharbour Baud turned up punctually to compete;…
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THE members of the above will play a programme of music (including the recent test pieces) at Dunmore this (Thursday) evening, at 8 o'clock. The following extract…
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SIR,—It appears that in with a certain lodge picnic held a last night ago at Balgownie, a great amount of public disfavour has been shown a…
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JAMBEROO folks, who have been rather quiet of late in the way of amusement are looking forward eagerly to Friday evening next, 11th instant, when [?] a meeting and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bellambi Band and Balgownie Free Gardeners
Mr. R. Vardy, hon. sec. Free Gardeners' Lodge, Balgownie, in replying to the letter of the Bellambi bandmaster in a recent issue of the MERCURY, says that…
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The pretty little rotunda erected in Market Square, Wollongong, to mark the discovery of Illawarra by Bass and Flinders has remained unoccupied so…
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A concert took place in the Church of England, Mount Kembla, on Friday evening last to pay off a small balance remaining on the cost of a new organ…
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THE entertainment given in the Shellharbor Temperance Hall last Friday evening by Mr. L de Groen's orchestra (assisted by a couple of Sydney vocalists) in aid of the…
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A correspondent writes:—The annual ball on the 17th instant, in connection with the R.C. Church, was a brilliant success. Some eighty couples ware present; despite…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ball at Albion Park
THE annual ball on the 17th instant, in connection with the Albion Park Roman Catholic Church, was a briliant success, Some eighty couples were present; despite,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Benefit Concert at Kembla
A concert in aid of a disabled miner named James Muir took place in the Kembla Heights Hall on Friday evening last, and was so successful that upwards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Caledonian Society's Smoke Concert
The quarterly social under the auspices of the Wollongong Caledonian Society took the form of a smoke concert at O'Brien's Rooms on Saturday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bellambi Brass Band. (To the Editor.)
SIR,—Just a few words in reply to Mr. Vardy's letter published in your paper on March 8th. I think his own letter to the Ballambi Band is the best argument that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hospital Ball. to the Held on 11Th May
A MEETING of resident having the interests of the Hospital at heart met in the Council Chamber on Wednesday night to decide whether a ball should be held in aid…
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