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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1872

8 stories in Riverina's papers

Great Fire in Sydney. Destruction of the Prince of Wales Theatre

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 10 January 1872 · page 2

THERE has been experienced in this city, though in a much lesser degree than in Chicago, the destructive effects of fire. The conflagration which took place on Saturday…

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Total Destruction Op the Prince of Wales Theatre by Fire

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1872 · page 2

The S. M. Herald' gives a long account of the disastrous fire by which the Prince of Wales Theatre and other buildings in Sidney were destroyed on Saturday morning last, from which it appears that the…

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Destruction by Fire of the Prince of Walls Theatre and Other Buildings

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1872 · page 2

IT is rather more than eleven years since the former Prince of Wales Opera House, which occupied the same site as the one just destroyed, was burnt to the ground by fire. It was about 6 o'clock on the…

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Destruction by Fire of the Prince of Wales Theatre, and Other Buildings. (From the S. M. Herald.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 13 January 1872 · page 4

THE Christmas and New Year's festivities are scarcely over, when the city is overtaken by a calamity as sudden as it is severe—a calamity not merely…

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Burning of the Theatre Royal, Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1872 · page 2

An early hour on Wednesday morning last saw the complete destruction of the premier theatre of Australia. Mr. J. Conway, the well-known cricketer, was at an upper window in Sayer's Prince of Wales…

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Burning of the Theatre Royal in Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 23 March 1872 · page 2

ANOTHER splendid theatre has quickly shared the fate of the Prince of Wales in Sydney, the destruction of which by fire a few weeks back created so much sensation. At an early…

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The Race Ball

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 23 November 1872 · page 3

THE usual Ball which follows as a corollary to most Race-meetings, was held at the Masonic Hall last night. The attendance was not so large as on former occasions but…

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The Amateur Concert

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 30 November 1872 · page 3

We have had a good many amateur concerts in Albury lately, and each one seems an improvement on its immediate predecessor. The entertainment on Monday evening…

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