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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1871

4 stories in Riverina's papers

The Mayor's Ball

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 27 May 1871 · page 2

A GRAND ball was given on the evening of the Queen's birthday by his Worship the Mayor. It is not usual, we believe, for the Mayors of country Municipalities to emulate…

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The Mayor's Ball and Municipal Man-traps

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 7 June 1871 · page 2

MY DEAR ADVERTISER,—Having returned to town, after a long rustication in the bush, I will according to promise inflict another paper upon you…

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The Amateur Concert at Tumut

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1871 · page 2

The great topic of the week has been the Amateur Concert, which was held in tho Assembly Room of the Bee-hive hotel, on Wednesday evening last, in aid of the Episcopalian…

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The Infant's Progress. a Ball-room Sketch, (From the Saturday Review.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 4

IT is pleasant to watch the stormy career of one of them at a ball from some safe retreat, which a projecting pillar may afford, or which the…

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