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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1890

10 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Hanging Pictures

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 17 May 1890 · page 13

Before banging an engraving, etching or photograph, or any other kind of picture, paste light, strong paper over the back including the frame, as it…

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Ball at Jindabyne

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1890 · page 9

THE plain and fancy dress ball at Leasville on the night of the races, was well attended, and the arrangements of the ladies, who had the management of the…

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A Story of a new Dance

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1890 · page 7

THE "Buzzard Lope," from the description of an American correspondent, is, the London Standard suggests, the latest social institution of America. It is, more…

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The Ball

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 9 August 1890 · page 6

As a winding up to the day's amusement, Mr. Thos. Wroe provided an evening's dancing at his residence. He has the front rooms to arranged that he can remove the parti ions, which thus provides…

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The Ball

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Tuesday 19 August 1890 · page 5

was held under the supervision of the Adaminaby Rifle Reserve Company, and the way that Captain [?] Secretary Waddell, and other members of the…

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Military Ball at Adaminaby. the Journey

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Tuesday 19 August 1890 · page 5

ON Friday afternoon last a party of three left Cooma for Adamibaby to attend the military ball at that place. The trio were in great spirits in anticipation of an…

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Theatre Rate

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 8 November 1890 · page 4

THE Theatre Royal, Leeds, was infested by a plague of rats; and Mr. Hobson, the lessee, having called in a famous rat-catcher of the town,…

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Sensational Occurrence in a Ball Room

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Tuesday 25 November 1890 · page 7

THE New Zealand Herald relates that a somewhat sensational occurrence took place at the Druids fancy dress ball, in St. George's Hall, Auckland, on…

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Public School Concert

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1890 · page 5

ON Thursday evening the annual concert, by the children attending the Cooma public school, was given in the hall of the School of Arts. Long before the time for the opening…

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Attempted Suicide in the Theatre Royal

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Tuesday 2 December 1890 · page 3

THE Telegraph of Friday says:—Considerable excitement was occasioned last night at the Theatre Royal during the performance of "Hero and Leander" by an attempt at…

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