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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1858

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An Earnest Appeal From the Woolloomooloo Band of Hope

The Band of Hope Journal and Australian Home Companion · Saturday 24 April 1858 · page 16

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The State Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 April 1858 · page 2

Her Majesty gave a State Concert in the evening in the new ball and concert room. A spacious orchestra was erected for the occasion, Upwards of fifty feet wide, rising [?] successive stages up to the level of the organ gallery. The band, nearly 80 in number,…

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The Ball

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 May 1858 · page 5

The room in which the banquet was held served also the purposes of a ball-room. Numerous and ready hand soon carried away the debris of the feast, the tables, chairs, &c, leaving the large space clear for…

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Band of Hope Journal

The Band of Hope Journal and Australian Home Companion · Saturday 8 May 1858 · page 16

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Band of Hope Meetings. Bathurst Street

The Band of Hope Journal and Australian Home Companion · Saturday 8 May 1858 · page 15

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The Alliance Band of Hope. (Late Pitt Street.)

The Band of Hope Journal and Australian Home Companion · Saturday 8 May 1858 · page 16

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Life Insurance. (From the Band of Hope Journal for May.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 May 1858 · page 3

"I INTEND to insure my life, Polly dear," said John Newman to his wife, as he was changing his working dress one evening, previous to sitting down to the tea table, where his three rosy faced, healthy looking…

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Band of Hope Journal

The Band of Hope Journal and Australian Home Companion · Saturday 22 May 1858 · page 16

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Intelligence. Band of Hope Meetings. Bathurst Street

The Band of Hope Journal and Australian Home Companion · Saturday 22 May 1858 · page 15

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The Atricals. Royal Victoria Theatre

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 22 May 1858 · page 3

The benefit seasoncommenced at the Royal Victoria Theatre yesterday evening, when Mrs Guerin tonk her benefit in the drama of "King, Queen, and Knave", the lady enacting the part of Elvira the Queen. "The Devil and…

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The Alliance Band of Hope. (Late Pitt Street.)

The Band of Hope Journal and Australian Home Companion · Saturday 22 May 1858 · page 15

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Time Ball, Fort Phillip. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Monday 24 May 1858 · page 2

SIR—In looking at the time ball, anyone standing is Cleveland-street, Redfern, and probably in other localities, will readily perceive that the background, which is the dark bush on the North Shore, prevents…

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The Queen's Birthday—annual Ball at Government House

Empire · Wednesday 26 May 1858 · page 4

The usual annual ball was given last night at Government House, by his Excellency the Governor-General and Lady Denison, in commemoration of the birthday of her most gracious Majesty the Queen. The advent of…

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Theatricals. Royal Victoria Theatre

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 29 May 1858 · page 2

The rain fell in torrents all the day on Wednesday, and up to a late hour in the evening, thus disappointing many of the fair patronesses and patrons of Mrs and Mr Winterbottom, who intended honoring their benefit night…

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Band of Hope Meetings. the Alliance Band of Hope. (Late Pitt Street.)

The Band of Hope Journal and Australian Home Companion · Saturday 5 June 1858 · page 15

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Electoral Reform. Public Meeting at the Lyceum Theatre

Empire · Tuesday 8 June 1858 · page 4

A public meeting of the citizens of Sydney was held last evening at the Lyceum Theatre, York-street, in support of the Electoral Bill now before the Legislative Assembly. The attendance numbered from five to six…

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The Lyceum Theatre Meeting on the Electoral Bill. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 June 1858 · page 3

SIR,—Of all the meetings lately held by the clique in favour of the Cowper Electoral Bill, that of the five or six hundred, including boys (ont of nearly 15,000 adult male inhabitants of Sydney), held at the…

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Parramatta Band of Hope

The Band of Hope Journal and Australian Home Companion · Saturday 19 June 1858 · page 16

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Alliance Band of Hope

The Band of Hope Journal and Australian Home Companion · Saturday 19 June 1858 · page 16

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Theatricals. Royal, Victoria Theatre

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 19 June 1858 · page 2

The performances during the week have attracted good audieuces, notwithstanding the unfavorable state of the weather. Mr Dind, so long a favorite with the people, and Treasurer of the theatre, had a bumper-house on…

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