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Southern Highlands · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1894

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Children's Ball

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 6 January 1894 · page 2

A PRELIMINARY meeting was held in the Bowral School of Arts on Wednesday last, at which about 40 ladies (mostly visitors) were present. Dr. T. C. Fisher…

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Band of Hope

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 10 January 1894 · page 2

THE monthly meeting of the Primitive Methodist Band of Hope was held on Monday evening. There was a fair attendance, Mr. W. H. Jones being in the chair, and it…

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Essayist. Hang Pictures Artistically

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 7

If there is one thing worse than another in the inartistic hanging of pictures it is that habit of stringing them, single file, around a room. Group there evidences of refinement…

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Children's Plain and Fancy Dress Ball

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 2

ON Wednesday last the ball held at the School of Arts in aid of the institution was an unqualified success. The hall was tastefully decorated with bunting and…

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Vanity Fair. Demand for Men Who Dance

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 7

The growing dislike of men for the pleasures of the dance brings sorrow to many a feminine heart. An up-to-date young woman thus voices their general plant: 'The…

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Concert and Fruit Banquet

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 3

On Tuesday evening last a concert and fruit banquet in connection with the Primitive Methodist Church anniversary, was held in the church, when there was a…

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Philharmonic Society's Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 17 February 1894 · page 2

On Thursday night last the society scored another success. At 8 oclock the School of Arts was nearly filled with and appreciative and representative audience…

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Promenade Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 28 February 1894 · page 2

WE had, as we expected, a very successful gathering in the paddock lent by Mr. Denmead on Friday evening last, the Mittagong Brass Band filling the air with sweet strains, and…

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C. E. Band of Hope

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 3 March 1894 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the Church of England Band of Hope was held in St. Jude's Schoolroom, Bowral, on Friday evening. The meeting having been…

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Celebration Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 10 March 1894 · page 2

A CONCERT was given by the children of the boys' and girls' departments of the Superior Public School on the evening of Thursday, and it was a decided…

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Sword Dance in Corea

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 March 1894 · page 7

This dance was performed by four girls, dressed in crimson and yellow, silk, with feathered head-dresses, to represent soldiers. Eight swords were laid on the ground in a…

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American Fashion Letter. Ball Dresses

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 31 March 1894 · page 7

Among the handsome dresses that will see the light is an opal brocade, to be worn by one of the young patronesses. The brocade has in it gleams and glints of green and…

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Mr. Huenerbein's Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 31 March 1894 · page 3

NOTWITHSTANDING the heavy rain falling last Saturday evening, a large number of people met in the School of Arts, Bowral, to witness one of the very best…

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The Caitoon-ball Tree

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 7 April 1894 · page 2

In British Guiana there grows a tree which is one of the myrtle family and closely related to the Brazil nut tree. It attains a height of from eighty to one hundred feet,…

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Infants' Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 April 1894 · page 2

ON Tuesday evening nothing could have been more gratifying to the teachers of the public school than the attendance at the infants' concert. Long before the…

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Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 28 April 1894 · page 2

A CONCERT was given by the pupils of St.. Joseph's, Mittagong, in the School of Arts, Bowral, on Thursday night. There was only a fair attendance. The programme,…

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Band of Hope

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 30 May 1894 · page 2

THE monthly meeting of the Primitive Methodist Band of Hope was held in the church on Monday night. The attendance was very fair, and with a good…

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A Buddhist Dance

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 14 July 1894 · page 8

One of our experiences in Thibet was the annual fair at Homis [?] ON arriving, we were given comfortable quarters in the monastery, which is very…

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Ancient Comic Pictures

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 21 July 1894 · page 2

Although they had no comic weekly papers like our own, the people of ancient times enjoyed a joke, and have left us proof of that fact in the relics which have come…

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B.Y.M.A. Concert

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 21 July 1894 · page 3

There was a large audience on Thursday night at the Association Hall, despite the intensely cold and boisterous weather, fortunately the moon shone in all its splendour, and in some measure made things…

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