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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1896

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Hospital Ball

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 May 1896 · page 2

WE cannot, help congratulating the ladies of the Hospital Ball Committee on the distinct success which has already attended their efforts. We understand there is over £42…

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Wagga Hospital Ball

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 May 1896 · page 2

The ladies of the Hospital Ball Committee are still working untiringly, and donations of money and kind are coining in from all quarters. A large number of country people…

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Correspondence. We do not necessarily endorse the opinion of our correspondents. the Hospital Ball. (To the Editor of the Wagga Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 May 1896 · page 2

SIR,—I was pleased to notice in your issue of to-day that the Hospital Ball Committee had decided not to reduce the price of tickets for the ball. Someone hinted that…

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In the World of Women. Mems. by Miss Maud. the Institute Ball

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 5 May 1896 · page 3

WHAT may, I suppose, be called the season was opened in Gundagai on Friday night by the Literary Institute ball. Everything the committee could do was done to make it a…

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Hospital Ball

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 May 1896 · page 3
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

A MEETING of the ladies of the Hospital Ball Committee was held in the board room of the Hospital on Tuesday afternoon last at 3.30 p.m. Present—Mrs. Chapman,…

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The Band Gold-fields. London, May 4

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 May 1896 · page 3

The recent convictions and the heavy sentences passed oil a large number of lending mining men at Johannesburg for high treason against the South African Republic…

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Wagga Buffalo Lodge. Smoke Concert

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 May 1896 · page 2

A SMOKE concert was given on Tuesday evening last by the members of Lodge Gordon, R.A. Order of Buffaloes to commemorate the first anniversary of the…

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Hospital Ball

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1896 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

THIS important event is still the prevailing subject of general talk. Everybody appears to regard it as a matter on which be or she has a perfect right to be interested or grow…

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Wagga Hospital Ball

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 12 May 1896 · page 2

A meeting of the ladies of the Hospital Ball Committee was held in the board room of the hospital yesterday afternoon to make final arrangements for the balls to be held on…

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Coolamon Oddfellows' Ball

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 May 1896 · page 2

The Coolamon Oddfellows' Ball was held on Friday evening last iu the oddfellows' Hall and proved a most successful and enjoyable entertainment. The hall was profusely…

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Wagga Hospital Ball

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 May 1896 · page 2

Everything appears to be in order and readiness for the ball this evening. The ladies have been for two days giving their attention to the suite of rooms to be devoted…

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Concert at St. Joseph's Hall

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1896 · page 2

A MOST successful musical entertainment was given in St. Joseph's Hall last evening in aid of the Catholic Bazaar Fund. The hall was well filled, the Very Rev. Father…

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Hospital Ball

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1896 · page 2

THE ball organised by the Ladies' Committee in aid of our principal local charity took place in the Odlellowa' Hall, on Thursday evening, and proved one of the most…

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Children's Ball

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 May 1896 · page 2

The arrangements were substantially the same as on the previous night. The attendance of children was about 150 all told. The comforts of the children were more than…

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The Children's Ball

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1896 · page 2

A children's dance, was held last evening, and was attended by 78 couples, including a numbor of adults, who were present to assist the juveniles in carrying out their…

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Wagga Hospital Ball

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 May 1896 · page 2

On Thursday evening last the long talked of and anxiously expected hospital ball duly came off at the Oddfellows' Hall, and proved to be a most brilliant success. For…

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Oddfellows' Ball at Coulamon. (From a Correspondent.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1896 · page 2

The Oddfellows' annual ball was held on Friday evening, 8th inst., in the local M. D. Hall, which hid been decorated in a very pretty and effective manner with festoons,…

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Town Band Ball

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 May 1896 · page 2

The third annual ball held under the auspices of the Wagga Town Band was held in the Oddfellows' Hall last evening, and was in every way a great success. The hall…

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