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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1861

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The Australian Some Companion, and Band of Hope Journal the New Year

The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 12 January 1861 · page 16

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The Australian Home Companion. The Australian Home Companion, and Band of Hope Jurnal Sir W. Denison, Governor-general, &c., &c

The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 26 January 1861 · page 15

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Amusements at the Temperance Hall and Theatre

Empire · Monday 28 January 1861 · page 5

Messrs. Cousins and Taylor, with their gymnastic and aerobatic company gave the first of two classical drawing-room entertainments on Saturday evening, at the Temperance Hall. The members of the company…

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Tee New York Ball. (From the Saturday Review, November 3.)

Empire · Wednesday 30 January 1861 · page 2

THE kind and hospitable welcome which America has given to the heir of the English throne culminated in the reception that ha met with at New York. Balls, serenades, torchlight…

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The Australian Home Companion, and Band of Hope Journal Home

The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 9 February 1861 · page 16

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The Australian Some Companion, and Band of Hope Journal the Religious Training of the Young Demands Your Best Energies

The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 23 February 1861 · page 16

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Revival Meeting at the Surrey Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 February 1861 · page 8

ON Sunday evening, December 9, Messrs. Reginald Radcliffe and Richard Weaver (the converted collier and prize-fighter), who held a revival meeting in Exeter Hall on the previous Sunday evening,…

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Royal Victoria Theatre. [Communicatied.]

Empire · Monday 4 March 1861 · page 5

ON Wednesday evening, I witnessed at the Victoria Theatre, one of the most complete and perfect embodimenta of Shakspere's grand conception of domastic suffering "Othello," Buchanan and his daughter as the…

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The Australian Some Companion, and Band of Hope Journal Family Discipline

The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 9 March 1861 · page 15

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The Theatre

Empire · Tuesday 19 March 1861 · page 5

Shakspere's "Comedy of Errors" was repeated last night at the Victoria, with even increased success. The pit was densely crowded, and we were glad to observe that the occupants of the boxes were more numerous…

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The Australian Home Companion, and Band of Hope Journal Sixteen Hundred Lives Lost

The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 23 March 1861 · page 14

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The Theatre

Empire · Tuesday 2 April 1861 · page 4
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sydney Morning Herald

THE almost unperalleled success achieved by Sir. William and Lady Don at Melbourne has naturally invested their engagement here with extraordinary interest, and, accordingly, the announcement that they had…

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The Australian Some Companion, and Band of Hope Journal an Oration on Teetotalism

The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 6 April 1861 · page 15

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The Theatre. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 11 April 1861 · page 5

SIR,—Lady Don and Sir William have achieved most genuine and deserved success since their appearance here. On Wednesday evening, notwithstonding the…

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The Australian Home Companion. and Band of Hope Journal an Orantion on TEETOTALISM—continued

The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 20 April 1861 · page 16

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The Ball

Empire · Wednesday 24 April 1861 · page 8

The morning celebration was very appropriately concluded by one of the best balls given tbis seaton in Sydney. At about half-past nine o'clock an assemblage of from five to six hundred individuals—the ladies in…

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Time Ball

Empire · Friday 26 April 1861 · page 4

Observatory, April 26th, 1861.—The time ball dropped this day two seconds co late.—W. SCOTT…

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The Ball-room Alphabet. a Souvenir of the Freemasons' Ball

Empire · Friday 26 April 1861 · page 4

A was an Angel just turned seventeen, B was the Ball where first she was seen; O was the Chaperon so absurdly severe, D was the Dance with that dear Volunteer;…

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