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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1894

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Victo[?]a Theatre. "IMascotte."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 August 1894 · page 5

POLLARD's Lilipan Opera Company produced Audran' sparking opera "La Mascotte" in the Voria Theatre on Saturday evening. Eve part of the house was…

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Victoria Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 August 1894 · page 5

ALTHOUGH their season has been extended the Liliputian Opera Company continue to do excellent business, and their undoubted talent is fully appreciated. Last evening…

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Victoria Theatre. "H.m.s. Pinafore."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 August 1894 · page 4

POLLARD'S Liliputian Opera Company produced Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera "H.M.S. Pinafore" in the Victoria Theatre last evening. There was again a fair…

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Y.m.c.a. Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 August 1894 · page 4

FOR some little time the members of the Young Men's Christian Association have been giving periodic concerts, and the entertainments have been very successful…

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Victoria Theatre. "Les Cloches de Corneville."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 August 1894 · page 5

LAST evening Pollard's Liliputian Opera Company again appeared in the sparkling opera "Les Cloches do Corneville," and the performance was in every way a decided…

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Victoria Theatre. Miss Nellie Wilson's Benefit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 August 1894 · page 5

AT the Victoria Theatre last evening Pollard's clever troupe of Liliputian artists appeared in the immensely successful burlesque "The Forty Thieves." The performance was…

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Adamstown. the Band

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 August 1894 · page 2

On Tuesday night a public meeting was held in the Council Chambers for the purpose of electing trustees for the brass band property. The Mayor occupied the chair. It…

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Victoria Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 August 1894 · page 5

AFTER a spell of comic opera, drama is once more to take possession of the stage of the Victoria Theatre, and this evening Miss Maggie Moore commences a season of seven…

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Williamtown. Band of Hope

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 August 1894 · page 2

The regular monthly meeting of the local Band of Hope Society was held in the Union Hall on Monday evening, when a very large audience assembled to listen to the promised…

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British Association Rules. Minmi Band v. Burwood Band

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 August 1894 · page 3

On Saturday the Minmi Brass Band journeyed to Merewether to play the local brass band a game of football (British rules) in return to a similar game played between the…

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Hamilton. Band of Hope Entertainment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 August 1894 · page 5

At the last monthly meeting of the Band of Hope in connection with the Wesleyan body, the Rev. R. Rickard gave an instructive address on the evils of intemperance and…

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Victoria Theatre. "Arrah-na-Pogue."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 August 1894 · page 4

DESPITE the very inclement weather of Saturday evening, Miss Maggie Moore's season at the Victoria Theatre was inaugurated under favourable circumstances. The gallery and…

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District News Merewether. Social and Ball

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 August 1894 · page 6

THE members of the Star of Merewether Lodge, No. 61, I.O.O.F., celebrated their anniversary by a social and ball in the hall of the Mechanics'…

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Victoria Theatre. "The Golden Giant."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 August 1894 · page 5

MISS MAGGIE MOORE'S company presented. last evening a comedy drama by Clay M. Green, with the above title, and which is quite now to local play-goers. Very fair…

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Victoria Theatre. "The Colleen Bawn."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 August 1894 · page 5

THE Maggie Moore Dramatic Company produced Dion Boucicault's Irish drama, "The Colleen Bawn," in the Victoria Theatre lest evening. The house was comfortably filled,…

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Lambton. Benefit Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 August 1894 · page 7

On Thursday evening a pleasing entertainment was given in the Music Hall by the Federal Minstrels of Newcastle, in aid of Mr. Florence…

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Victoria Theatre. "David Garrick."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 August 1894 · page 5

THE Maggie Moore dramatic company staged the splendid comedy "David Garrick," in the Victoria Theatre last evening, and on the wholr the performance, which was concluded…

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District News. Lambton. Public School Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 August 1894 · page 3

In the Star Theatre to-night the pupils of the Public School will repeat the concert given in June, when a number were unable to obtain…

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Victoria Theatre. "The Circus Queen."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 August 1894 · page 4

THE above was announced as a musical drama, but rather should be described as a lively, crisp dramatic effort, with laughter-provoking incidents, abundantly comprised,…

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Complimentary Concert at Hamilton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 August 1894 · page 5

THE complimentary concert tendered to Mr. S. Kinder last evening in the Hamilton Mechanics' Institute, so far as the excellently arranged programme was concerned, must be…

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