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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1897

63 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 4

The Ball

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 2

Was held in the Protestant Hall in the evening, about twenty couples attending. Miss Ethel Hudson supplied the music and Mr. M. Quigley efficiently discharged the…

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The Ball

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 January 1897 · page 2

At night promises to be a groat success and should be well patronised both on the floor and the gallery. The music is very special -- Professor…

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The Band of Hope

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 January 1897 · page 2

MEETING was held in the Wesleyan Church on Wednesday. There was a fair attendance and the following programme very…

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The Juvenile Ball

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 January 1897 · page 2

HELD last Wednesday night in conjunction with the military ball was well-attended and passed off very pleasantly. Dancing was kept up by the young folks till about…

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The Military Ball

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 2

Was by no means successful. In fact there was the smallest attendance of dancers that we have seen at a ball for some time, only about 15 couples putting in an…

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The Juvenile Ball

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 2

Was much more successful, in every way, There was a large number of children present, while a few adults assisted the little ones through the various figures of the dances…

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Church of England Concert

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 2

The first of the series of concerts which it is intended to hold in Braidwood to raise funds for the purchase of a new organ for St. Andrew's Church eventuated on Thursday evening last in the…

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Band of Hope

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 February 1897 · page 2

THE monthly meeting of the Band of Hope was held on Wednesday. There was a crowded attendance, and the following programme was well gone through after the…

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Band of Hope

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 March 1897 · page 2

As announced this mouth's Band of Hope meeting was held in the Protestant Hall on Wednesday night. There was a crowded attendance, and after the opening address…

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The Queanbeyan Age with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror & Captain's Flat Miner. Saturday, March 20, 1897. Local and General. Queanbeyan Band of Hope

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 2

The Queanbeyan Band of Hope held their usual monthly meeting on Wednesday evening, when there was again a good attendance The programme passed off very smoothly,…

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Tales of Outlaws. [Copyright.] Vivid and Realistic Pictures of the Past. Selected from the Diary and the Correspondence of an Old Colonist. Martin Cash; Or, The Outlaw of Table Mount. (In Seventeen Parts.) Part I.

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 1

"These confounded blacks! Martin, we'll have to kill everyone on the run before we will have peace. Poor Tom! He was one of my best men."…

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Cricketer's Dance

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 7 April 1897 · page 2

Apparently the only cricketing clubs that can sustain the interest in the game necessary to keep it alive, are the smaller country ones. While the once strong clubs have been…

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Hospital Ball at Marlowe. General News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 2

On Friday, the 2nd instant, a ball in aid of the Braidwood Hospital was held at Marlow, and was a decided success, financially and otherwise. A committee of ladies, assisted by a number of Dr. S. P. Preston, Lynchburg, Vs., writes—"I have been very much pleased with Sander & Sons Eucalypti Extract in the first stage of phthisis, using it as an inhalation from a bronchitls-cettle, I…

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Band of Hope

The Queanbeyan Observer · Thursday 15 April 1897 · page 3

THE monthly meeting of the Band of Hope Temperance society was held last night. As it was expected, the distractions of the show and other counter attractions…

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Local News. Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, April 21St. Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. John Ball, J.P.

The Queanbeyan Observer · Thursday 22 April 1897 · page 2

AN UNREGISTERED SLAUGHTER-HOUSE Joseph Blundell pleaded not guilty to a change of keeping an unregistered slaughter- house…

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Hanging Pictures

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 24 April 1897 · page 2

Many a delicately tinted painting is placed so near the ceiling that its beauty and value are lost. It is really "skied" like a worthless daub at an exhibition…

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A Successful Dance

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 24 April 1897 · page 2

The night of Easter Monday was seized as an opportunity for the holding of a social, and although it was very hastily were over 30 couples…

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The Undines' Dance

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 1

Upon the silver bench the Undines dance With interlinking arms and flying hair; Like polished marble gleam their limbs left bare;…

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Wattle Park Band of Hope

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 2

THE usual monthly Meeting of the Band of Hope was held at Wattle Park on Wednesday evening May 12th. Mr. B. R. Southwell, vice-president, occupied the…

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Narratives Bushranging Times in Van Dieman's Land. [Copyright.] Period, 1842. the Port Arthur Band. (In Six Parts.) Part I.

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 May 1897 · page 1

"No. 3 Timber Gang has broken away, sir!" "That be hanged! What do you mean ?"…

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