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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1828

5 stories in Sydney's papers

Law Intelligence. Gloucester, Monday, Sept. 3. CIVIL SIDE.—(Before Mr. Justice Littledale,) Ball V. JONES

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1828 · page 4

Mr. Richards opened the pleadings. Mr. Campbell stated the case to the jury. This was an action of trespass. The plaintiff was a boy 14 years of age, who, s[?]ing by his prochain amy, sought…

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Mr. Levy's Amateur Theatre. Dramatic Fragment. Act 3.— I. A Composing Room, with Compositors, Pressmon, &c. &c. &c

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 28 May 1828 · page 2

"Much more honest to be hir'd, and stand, With auctioneer's hammer in one's hand, Provoking to give more, and knocking thrice For the old household stuff or picture[?] price."…

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Race Ball

The Australian · Wednesday 2 July 1828 · page 4

There is to oe a race ball in Sydney, after the Parramatta meeting of the Racing and Jockey Club. We are given to understand that the ball will be one of the…

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Fall of the New Brunswick Theatre, and Its Fatal Results

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Friday 18 July 1828 · page 3

The New Bennawick Theatre, erected on the site of the Old East London, which was one time since destroyed by fire, and opened on Monday evening— the structure of which but a few days ago, was the…

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His Majesty's Grand Ball

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Friday 17 October 1828 · page 2

The King gave a Ball at his Palace, in St. James's, on Monday evening (May 25), to which the Members of the Royal Family, the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, and their Ladies, and a numerous party of…

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