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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1880

314 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 16

Victoria Theatre. "Good As Gold."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 October 1880 · page 2

A NEW dramatic season commenced last evening at the above theatre, introducing Mr. Edwin Browne to a Newcastle audience. We are pleased to state that…

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Wallsend Concert for the "Susanne Godeffroy" Suffers. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 October 1880 · page 3

SIR,—The Marine Board enquiry into the loss of the ship Susanne Godeffroy, and the inquest on the body of her unfortunate captain has…

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Victoria Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 October 1880 · page 2

THE drama of "Good as Gold" was reproduced last evening, with the same success as on the previous night, Mr. Edwin Browne being again recalled at the…

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Victoria Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 October 1880 · page 3

THE sensational drama of "Good as Gold" was produced for the last time last evening with its usual success. To-night there will be an entire change of…

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Victoria Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 October 1880 · page 2

LAST night the programme was varied by the presentation of an American melodrama of the highly sensational type, entitled "Two Lives," in which the…

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Victoria Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1880 · page 5

THE drama of the "Two Lives" was reproduced last night with undiminished success. This evening the favorite melodrama of "Good as Gold" will be repeated…

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Victoria Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 October 1880 · page 2

THE attendance on Saturday evening was the best that the greeted the present company, and the drama "Good as Gold" was played with excellent spirit, the…

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Concert and Spelling Bee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 October 1880 · page 2

THE Committee of Management of the I.O.G.T. concerts offers a splendid and novel programme for this evening at the Protestant Hall. In addition to solos,…

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Victoria Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 October 1880 · page 2

THE entertainments last evening were for the benefit of Mr. Edwin Browne, on which occasion the drama of "Floating Coffins" was produced, Mr. Browne…

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Amateur Entertainment at the Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 October 1880 · page 2

WE notice that an entertainment, tendered by some of the best amateur talent in the district, is to be given in the Victoria Theatre on Thursday evening next, for the…

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The I.O.G.T. Concert at Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 October 1880 · page 3

THE I.O.G.T. Concert took place on Thursday evening, under the auspices of the Good Samaritan Lodge. An excellent programme was arranged for the…

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Sermon at the Victoria Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 October 1880 · page 2

AT the Victoria Theatre last night a crowded audience met to hear an address from Mr. Thomas Spurgeon, a son of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of The Tabernacle,…

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Victoria Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 October 1880 · page 2

AN advertisement in another column announces a vocal and instrumental benefit to be tendered to Mrs. R. W. Whitfield, whose son, our readers will recollect, was…

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I.O.G.T. People's Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 October 1880 · page 2

ANOTHER of the above concerts took place in the Protestant Hall on Saturday, to a very large audience, when a capital programme was gone through; the chair…

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Concert at the Glebe

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 October 1880 · page 2

WE would remind our readers that the concert in aid of the Globe Wesleyan Church takes place in the Protestant Hall at that place this (Thursday)…

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Grand Special Temperance Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 5

WE see by advertisement that the Bethel Lodge of I.O.G.T. intend giving a grand concert the Protestant Hall, King-street, on Wednesday evening next. The…

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Victoria Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 October 1880 · page 2

THE theatre was well filled on Thursday evening last, the occasion being a benefit to Mrs. R. W. Whitfield, whose son recently met with a tragic death. The…

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Concert at the Glebe

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 October 1880 · page 2

THE grand concert in aid of the Globe Wesleyan Church, took place on Thursday evening last, at the Protestant Hall, Globe. The hall was crowded…

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I.O.G.T. Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 October 1880 · page 2

WE are requested to direct attention to the Good Templar concert, this evening, in the Protestant Hall. In addition to the usual "bill of fare," the screaming…

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The Juvenile Templars' Concert at Lambton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1880 · page 2

A FUGITIVE and a wanderer on the face of the earth. It is seldom I venture into the haunts of civilization—solitary beings of my kind are not kindly…

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