Band Contest
THE band contest which commence at the Cricket Ground at 8 o'clock last evening has, so far, proved most successful. The competing bands met at Moroney's Hotel at 7…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1890
379 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 19
Correspondence Greta Band. to the Editor
SIR,—Under the above heading in Saturday's issue of the Greta and Branxton Gazette a long rigmarole is published of what is supposed to be a report of the band and its…
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"HUMAN NATURE" was played for the last time in the Victoria Theatre last evening by Leitch's Dramatic Company, when there was another good house. This evening…
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LONDON, Monday.—During the progress of the play "The Maid of Orleans" at the Theatre Francais, Paris, the faggots in the last scene ignited, and the stage was…
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THE Band Contest was continued on the Cricket ground yesterday and last evening. At 12 o'clock, noon, all the bands, with the exception of Wallsend, assembled at…
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THE old Victoria Theatre was never better filled in its history than it was last evening, when the Leitch Dramatic Company produce the sensational nautical drama,…
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THE prizes won at the band contest held in the Cricket Ground on Tuesday and Wednesday were handed over last might, at Moroney's Assembly rooms, by the promoter,…
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ANOTHER good audience assembled in the Victoria Theatre last evening, to witness the drama "Harbour Lights." Messrs. Macmahon, the well-known theatrical manager,…
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SIR,—It appears that some bandmasters and many others with little musical genius have thought proper to question the decision of the judge in the late band contest…
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A MODERATELY large audience assembled at the Victoria Theatre again last evening, to witness that highly sensational and intensely interesting drama, "Harbour Lights." The…
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The place awarded the local band by the adjudicator at the recent band contest was received here with little or no surprise. For some time little interest has been taken in…
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A FAIR audience assembled in the Victoria Theatre on Saturday evening to witness the final production of "Harbour Lights" by the Leitch Dramatic Company…
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NOTWITHSTANDING the very unpropitious state of the weather, the Victoria Theatre was well filled last evening upon the production for the first time in Newcastle of that…
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SIR,—Prior to the adjudicator giving his decision the above contest Mr. Moroney informed the public that the judge's notes would be published for the benefit of the…
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THE Newcastle season of M'Mahon's Dramatic Company is drawing to a close, but their opening success has in no way abated as there was a large audience in the Victoria…
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BRUSSELS, Tuesday.—The principal theatre at Brussels was burnt to the ground to-day. No one was injured…
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LAST evening saw the farewell performance of the Macmahon Dramatic Company in the sensational drama, "Held by the Enemy." Notwithstanding the fact that large audiences…
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A MEETING in Connection with the above was held by the committee as the Council-chambers, Watt street, on Thursday, the 9th instant In the absence of the president,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District News. Burwood. the Band
It will be remembered that at Mr. Moroney's band contest, which was held on the New Year's Eve, the Burwood Band were awarded the third prize. No doubt it was a…
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A RECITAL of organ an other instrumental music was given in the Wesleyan Church, Tyrrel-street, last evening, by the King family, in the presence of a large an…
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