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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1903

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The Band Contest

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 25 March 1903 · page 4

The Secretary of the Contest Fund kindly acknowledges the receipt of the following donations, Mr. J. Ross 5s., Mr. H. Beveridge 5s…

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Howell News. Sports and Ball

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 25 March 1903 · page 5

The sports here on St. Patrick's Day were financially a success, and the local cricket club will benefit to the extent of £3 or £4. The attendance was small owing to there being…

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N.E. Irish National Association. the Band Contest. Adjudicator's Remarks

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 25 March 1903 · page 3

The adjudicator's comments in reference to the playing of the 4th and 5th bands, Lismore and Emmaville, in the recent competition, held over…

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The Band

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 March 1903 · page 2

ON Saturday last, the Glen Innes band journeyed to Guyra to fulfil an engagement in connection with the annual railway picnic Mr. T. G. M'Shane conducted, having arrived in Glen Innes…

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How War Pictures are Made

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 3

The war in the Transvaal has inspired the editor of a Paris illustrated paper with a highly ingenious idea, says SOUTH AFRICA. The…

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Coomoorah Ball

The Inverell Argus · Friday 10 April 1903 · page 3

The above ball came off on Friday night last in the hall adjacent to the Goomo[?] Hotel. This hotel is situated some thirteen miles from Inverell on the Ashford road,…

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Inverell Elocution Class. Concert and Recitals. Unqualified Success

The Inverell Times · Saturday 11 April 1903 · page 4

It is only a few months since the Rev. Moorhead Legate, of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, conceived the idea of commencing elocution classes to…

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School of Arts Ball

Guyra Argus · Friday 17 April 1903 · page 8

On Monday night the ball in aid of the School of Arts library fund was held in the School of Arts and was a pronounced success. The…

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Picnic and Concert at Gum Flat

The Inverell Argus · Friday 17 April 1903 · page 2

Easter Monday was celebrated by a picnic at Gum Flat with a concert at night. The picnic was held in the school grounds, at which cycling and other events were run…

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Mr. Waddell and the Civil Servants. Concert Abandoned

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 5

In consequence of Mr. Waddell's retrenchment proposals, the Civil Servants abandoned the Civil Service Concert in aid of the Drought Belief…

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Easter at Gum Flat. Sports and Concert

The Inverell Times · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 4

Easter Monday was celebrated with unusual eclat at Gum Flat. All the residents from grave and verend seniors to the irrepressible of a few…

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The Ball

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 24 April 1903 · page 2

The interior of the Gymnasium was like a fairy palace, so much had it been transformed by the skilful fingers and decorative genius of the membees of the…

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The Ball

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1903 · page 2

One of the principal objects of the sports held on Wednesday afternoon was to endeavour to draw a crowd together for the ball that night. In this the committee was successful…

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The Ball

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 1 May 1903 · page 2

The race ball held in the evening at the Gymnasium was simply delightful, and passed all too quickly for the merry and gleeful worshipers of Terpsichore. The…

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A Brass Band Competition

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 1 May 1903 · page 2

WRITING from Lismore, " A Hawker" says:-- "I must they without favoritism that Lismore-possesses a band far above the ordinary country band. It is recognised as a public institution, not merely…

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Band Amalgamation. Public Meeting

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 1 May 1903 · page 3

A PUBLIC meeting for the purpose of devising ways and means for the support and working of the amalgamated bands was held in the School of Arts on…

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Linda O'Hara Concert

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 1 May 1903 · page 2

THE box plan for Miss Linda O'Hara's concert, which takes place in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening next, is now on view at Stationer's Hall, where seats may be reserved without any extra…

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Linda O'Hara Concert

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 May 1903 · page 2

THIS (Tuesday) evening, at the Town Hall, Miss Linda O'Hara (daughter of the late Alderman J. Moses) will make her appearance before an audience of her native town for the first time since her late…

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Miss Linda O'Hara. Concert at the Town Hall

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 May 1903 · page 3

THE unsatisfactory condition of the elements did not deter a large and fashionable audience from assembling in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening, when Miss Linda…

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Dance at Woolbrook

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 9 May 1903 · page 3

The dance, after the picnic at Woolbrook, was a great success, about 40 couple being present. It was a plain and fancy dress dance…

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