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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1885

17 stories in South Coast's papers

A Scene in a Theatre

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1885 · page 1

Some years since, while in the very zenith of her popularity, Madame Ristori played one night in the largest theatre in Madrid, the Queen occupying the royal box…

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An International Ball

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 1

The commune of Pfettershaun, on the frontier of Switzerland and Alsati[?], recently celebrated its annual holiday. An innkeeper, whose establishment bestrides the…

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A Band of Practical Jokers

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 7 March 1885 · page 1

Ernest Legouve tells some good stories of Eugene Sue and the joyous band of practical jokers who gathered around him in the atelier of Theodore Gudin, the painter…

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Poetry. In The Theatre. Three Loves

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 12 March 1885 · page 1

WHEN first I loved—long, long age— My spirit so journed alone In a realm of happy dreams. I trow I was a faneiful world of my own…

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A Savage in a Ball-room

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 2 May 1885 · page 2

A cruel heax was played off a short time back upon a German painter who is well-known both in Paris and Berlin. This clever man affects to be blase, and at a New-Year's…

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An International Ball

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1885 · page 1

The commune of Pfettershaup, on the frontier of Switzerland and Alsatia, recently celebrated its annual holiday. An ionkeeper, whose establishment bestrides the…

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Concerts

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 21 May 1885 · page 2

WE are glad to be able to inform our readers that everything is in satisfactory progress for the concerts, at Nowra and Broughton Creek, under the auspices of the Highland Society…

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Complimentary Concert

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 27 May 1885 · page 2

THE complimentary concert tendered to Mr. J. W. Sharpe, in recognition of his public services in connection with Caudelo town and district, was taken up with great…

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The Concert

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 28 May 1885 · page 2

At Nowra, in the new Public Hall was attended by about five hundred persons; the new Hall being densely packed Mr. James Fraser, J.P., occupied the chair. A programme…

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The Broughton Creek Concert

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 28 May 1885 · page 2

was quite a musical treat. The hall was full to the doors; and the singing—in almost every case of more than ordinary merit—was very ably assisted by Miss Miller's accompanying…

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The Concert at Broughton Creek

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 4 June 1885 · page 2

THE Broughton Creek Committee deserve credit for the activity displayed in getting the Agricultural Hall there prepared for the reception of the thronged audience the singers…

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Concert

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1885 · page 2

THE most gratifying success was experienced by the prumoters of a Concert given on Tuesday evening, in the Lyceum, in aid of the funds of St…

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Local Intelligence. Miss Miller's Concert come off at Broughton Creek to-morrow night

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 18 June 1885 · page 2

NOWRA VOLUNTEER CORPS.—A meeting was held on Saturday night last, at the new Hall, Nowra, to swear in members of the above corps Mr. H. G. Morton, J.P., presided, and…

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Stony Creek Public School Concert

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 24 June 1885 · page 2

ON Friday last the above ca[?] off in the schoolroom in the presence of a large and apprecia[?]ve audience. The re[?] was well lighted and prettily decorated with…

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Commercial. Ball[?]nsdale Live Stock Market. Monday, July 25

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 August 1885 · page 2

MESSRS. M[?]CA[?] Goo[?] AND Co, of [?]irnsdale, report:— The supply of cattle forward to-day was less than many mouths previous, and…

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Chapter I. the Ball Opens

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 7 October 1885 · page 4

The night was young. And wild. It is the characteristic of youth to be wild…

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With General Grant at the Theatre

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 7 October 1885 · page 1

I was at work in Nashville in 1863 (said an old telegraph operator) when Grant arrived just after the accident in Louisiana which made him use crutches. A friend and…

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