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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1830

5 stories in Sydney's papers

QUERIES. Modern Slate morals; or, six queries to those who forbid[?]a Theatre, from evangelical considerations

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 16 January 1830 · page 3

1. Did a Justice-officer of this Colony, induce the wife of a soldier to run away from her husband at the time of his regiment's departure for India, and to secrete herself till he…

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QUERIES. Modern State morals; or, six queries to those who forbid a Theatre, from evengelical considerations

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 18 January 1830 · page 3

1. Did a Justice-officer of this Colony, induce the wife of a soldier to run away from her husband at the time of his regiment's departure for India, and to secrete herself till be…

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Domestic Intelligence. Theatre at Last!

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 10 July 1830 · page 2

Mr. Levey built a Theatre in Sydney, the non-licensing of which ruined him. His was a Theatre at which free and freed persons only were to perform…

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Select Poetry. You'll Come to Our Ball. "Comment [?] que [?] regarde encore [?]—[?] [?] b[?]en change; niest p[?], mo[?] pap[?]"— [?] Premi[?] Amours

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 15 July 1830 · page 4

YOU'LL come to our ball:—since we parted, I've thought of you, more than I'll say; Indeed, I was half broken-[?]earted, For a week, when they took you away…

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Sittings in Dance

The Australian · Friday 17 September 1830 · page 2

SUPREME COURT, SATURDAY, SEPT. 11, The Chief Justice with his learned colleagues, M. Justice Stephen, and Mr. Justice Dowling haying taken their seals at the usual hour:—…

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