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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts
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SIR,—On Friday night last, the performances at the Victoria being patronised by Colonel Kempt, and the Volunt[?]ers, I went to the theatre and paid my five shillings for a seat in the dress circle, being at the…
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Continued on Trove, page 17 →WE have been requested by his Excellency the Governor-in Chief to state that, owing to the death of her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Kent, the ball in celebration of her Majesty's birthday is postponed…
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Continued on Trove, page 16 →SIR.—Is it a fact that the Aldermen of the city have not received invitations in consequence of their having neglected to call and enter their names in the book at Government house? Sarves them right—ought to know…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The performances at the Victoria were patronised by a numerous and Highly respectable audience. Previous to the commencement of the drams, the national anthem was sung Lady Don taking the solo verses, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—There is a very good story in existence reliting to a certain aristocratic barber residing in the West End of London, who had a notification posted on his walls to the effect that "no one was shaved in his establishment below a baker." Now, why…
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE Albert Cricket Ciab,enooaraged by the complete succeis attendant upon the first oricketerts ball in Sydney, which was given by them last year, and likewise in commemcration of their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TUS" Sale of.Liquors General Licensing Act of 1861" to be in reduced to Parliament by Mr. COWPER, during the next session, does not in our opinion provide such, a relief from the annoying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DEAR MR. EDITOR.—Notwithstanding the serious character of your usual employments, I am quite sure you have sufficient gallantry to appreciate the feelings of us girls, on a cruel and bitter disappointment. Is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—I see by your advertising columns that Mr. Fitzgerald has, [?] a liberal spirit, offered a "premium" for the best design of a theatre to be erected on the site of the old Prince of Wales. Allow me to draw his attention to a point which is allowed by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"SPEECH is silv'rn," says the proverb, " and silence golden." It is sometimes painful to be forced on the inferior circidation, when we wish to maintain the gold standard. There are some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MB. SELOUS could not have selected a more interesting or impressive subject for the exercise of his pencil than "Jerusalem: in her Grandeur, and in her Fall." To the Christian mind the Holy City is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—In your paragraph respecting the ball practice on Thursday, you remark that " through some unexplained cause, only twenty-one of the Volunteer Artillery were present." The reason of such a small muster seems to me very plain. It cannot be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN our issue of yesterday. We briefly alluded to the success which had attended this event the late hour to which the festivities were prolonged, precluding the possibility of giving more than a corsory notice of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is now nearly two months since a few gentlemen, anxious to render their assistance towards paying off the heavy debt (still amounting to more than £1200) which encumbers St. Vincent's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As, unlike certain of our daily' contemponirics, we do not write our critiques' Beforehand, and moreover, severe indisposition having provented our attendance at the Victoria during the week, we must postpone until…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is now nearly two months since a few gentlemen, anxious to render their assistance towards paying off the heavy debt (still amounting to more than £51200) which encumbers St. Vincent's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Your criticism, on the above, in this day's paper, is a very fair and just one; and much as I regret that I should have to admit it, yet I fully coincide with you in saying that the performance was "scarcely equal to those of former occasions;" but…
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