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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1885

3 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Free Concert

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 4 July 1885 · page 3

ON Thursday evening, a very large number of people assembled in Cooma School of Arts to listen to the concert, and hear the addresses. Mr. J. N. Hughes, of the…

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Ball Darns. Esthetic Fowls

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 25 July 1885 · page 2

A GENTLEMAN owned some ducks which need to stand for hours about some very brilliant shins-streets in his borders, as if admiring their color. They did not peck at them as if Farm and Garden…

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New Local Song. the Sanctimonious Six. [Air—"THE Hallelujah Band"]

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1885 · page 4

YES, we are the pious six, up to any kind of tricks, Can sing at Sunday school—school, school, school;…

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