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Southern Highlands · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1888

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Bachelors' Ball

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 2

THE bachelors of Bowral gave a bull in tho School of Arts on Tuesday night last, in aid of the District Cottage Hospital; and, as is usual with these entertainments, it went off…

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Liedertafel Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 3

Mn. GAVIN GEORGE has kindly shown us a letter received from a member of the Sydney Lied[?]rtafel, wherein a promise is made that 12 members of the Liedertafel, accompanied…

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The Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 28 January 1888 · page 2

In the evening a concert was given in Canterbury Hall, at which there was an attendance of about 150 persona. Mr. H. Childs, J. P., occupied the choir, and…

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Philharmonic Society's Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 1 February 1888 · page 4

We take the final opportunity of drawing attention to the second concert of the Bowral Philharmonic Society, which takes place in the school of arts on Thursday evening…

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The Bowral Free Press. Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Saturday, February 4, 1888. Philharmonic Society Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 2

THE Bowral Philharmonic Society gave their second concert in the School of Arts last Thursday night, the 2nd instant. Late in the afternoon a thunderstorm broke over…

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Philharmonic Society Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 11 February 1888 · page 1

IN last issue we gave a full report of the Bowral Philharmonic Society's second concert. The night of tho concert was unpropitious, and the attendance was small,…

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Ladies' Bonnets at the Theatre

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 14 March 1888 · page 3

M. Francisque Sarecy is a courageous man; he has opened a campaign against ladies' bonnets at the play. He says the monumental height of feminine head gear at the…

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The Bowral free Press. Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Wednesday, March 14, 1888. Amateur Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 14 March 1888 · page 1

THE concert given in the School of Arts by Sydney amatours last Saturday night was attended by a large and fashionable audience. Visitors were present from Sydney, Moss…

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The Highest Auction Prices for Pictures

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 21 March 1888 · page 2

According to the art records for 1887, the Highest price over given for any portrait at an auction was obtained at the Lonsdale sale, London, for Boucher's '0Pompadour.' The…

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Tea Meeting and Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 28 March 1888 · page 1

A TEAMEETING and concert in connection with the Presbyterian church, Bowral, will be held in the Oddfellows' Hall this Wednesday evening. Tea will be laid at 6.30,…

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Presbyterian Tea-meeting and Concert at Mittagong

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 2

THE concert and tea-meeting in connection with the Presbyterian Church, Mittagong, took place on Easter Monday, and considering the counter attractions they, were very successful…

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Scottish Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 9 May 1888 · page 1

THE Scottish concert given in the School of Arts last Thursday night by Messrs. Milieu and Heslop was attended by not more than about 60 persons. The entertainment was…

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Letters to the Editor. The Bowral Brass Band.—A Suggestion

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 13 June 1888 · page 1

SIR,—Whilst listening to the selections played by the Bowral Brass Band—and I must confess that they were on the whole really excellent—in Bong Bong-street last…

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Bowral Brass Band

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 23 June 1888 · page 3

SIR,—A very sensible letter appeared in your issue of Saturday last, throwing out suggestions of a practical nature in reference to the town band, but nothing has yet been…

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Letters to the Editor. The Dance Question

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 23 June 1888 · page 1

SIR,—With your permission, I will, as one of the public, offer a word on a public question and one which at present commands notice in Bowral—the question of daneing…

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The Bowral free Press. Do as adversaries do in law, Strire mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Saturday, June 23, 1888. at the Bowral Philharmonic Society's Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 23 June 1888 · page 2

THE night of the Philharmonic Society's Concert was bewitchingly moonlight—not with the full radiance of a well-grown moon, but with the softer, fainter gleams that fall when the…

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Bowral Brass Band

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 30 June 1888 · page 2

SIR—Alludiug to a letter in your last issue signed "Pom Pom" and requesting the opinion of the Band, on behalf of the Bowral Brass Band, I beg to reply. Respecting…

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The Bowral free Press. Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Saturday, Aug. 18, 1888. Complimentary Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 18 August 1888 · page 2

The Church of England Temperance Society gave a complimentary concert to Mr. and Mrs. Copeland Bennett, on Tuesday evening last, when a nice musical…

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Concert at Kangaloon

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 22 August 1888 · page 1

A CONCERT in connection with the West Kangaloon Mutual Improvement Society will be held in the society's hall this evening, (We Tuesday), 22nd last. It is…

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Concert at Robertson

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 22 August 1888 · page 1

A very successful and well attended concert under the auspices of the committee of the Robertson School of Aris, and in aid of that institution, took place last Thursday…

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