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Riverina · Pictures, dances & concerts
28 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 2
THE defendant was charged that on the 22nd February last, a dog belonging to him rushed at the horses of complainant on the highway between Junee and Bethungra, which horses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EVERY hotel in those days had a large ball-room attached to it, and in some of them as many as seven or eight girls wore kept, as servants ostensibly, but really as attractions…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →ON Easter Monday evening a concert was held in the Freemasons' Hall in aid of the Catholic School Fund, and there was a large audience. The first part of the programme…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There are to be found narrow-minded people who cannot reconcile a harmless day's presence on a racecourse, with a concert for purely the purest of church purposes, but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In addition to about fifteen Wagga residents who came here by the mail train, a special train brought forty others, including the Mayor of Wagga and Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Wednesday evening, according to announcement, a plain and fancy dress ball took place in the new railway refreshment rooms at Junee, for the benefit of the local…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE above event, which has been so often referred to in our columns, since the inception of the Society came off last evening, before an audience which fully filled the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mayor's Ball here this evening promises to be a grand success. There is a large attendance, including some visitors from Wagga. Excellent music, under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The proceedings were very appropriately commenced by the whole company singing "God Save the Queen," after which a glee, "Softly Fall the Shades of Evening," was rendered in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The honour of giving the first Mayor's Ball in thistown belongs to Mr. Thomas McBeath, a resident of Cootamundra of some nine or ten years' standing. Mr. McBeath was for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Annual Ball of the Loyal Southern Star Lodge, I.O.O.F., Manchester Unity, was held on last Thursday evening in the Freemason's Hall, and the attendance was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE enthusiasm with which the members of our local Volunteer Corps were started to the sands of Egypt, leaving us very doubtful whether many of them would ever return,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IF the Success of the projected ball in aid of the Wagga Hospital may be gauged by the meeting at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon, it cannot fail to be an unqualified…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE concert in aid of the funds of the local Hospital, so spiritedly conceived by Miss Ada Baker, was carried out last evening admirably in every particular; and our wish,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Return Ball, given as a compliment to the Mayor by the citizen's of Cootamundra, came off with unusual eclat on Friday night. It cannot be said that the Cootamundra…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE entertainment given in the Freemasons' Hall on Thursday evening will live long in the remembrance of the audience, which was, as might have been anticipated,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE meeting of the ladies who have interested themselves in the forthcoming gala to aid suffering humanity, was, considering the state of the streets and roads caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE most sanguine friend of the Wagga Hospital could not be disappointed at the appearance which the interior of the Freemasons' Hall presented on Tuesday evening. Apart…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE concert given in the Freemasons' Hall last night in aid of the funds of the Catholic Schools was distinguished by two conspicuous features. The first was the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Allow me to correct an error which appeared in a paragraph in your last Saturday's issue, In it you state that Mr. Newland (in his capacity as honorary secretary of…
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