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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts
61 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 4
S[?]—I see the telegrams in your issae of Wednecday that [?]and ball attended by some 3000 per[?]s in f[?] costume, was given to the Prince in Melb[?] all accounts, it must have been a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—The inference drawn by the public from the report of the proceedings at a meeting (consisting of seven citizens, tow aldermen, and myself), held on Monday last at the Exchange, appears to be that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I cannot conceive how the Ball Committee expect one hand to efficiently perform for some 4000 or 5000 persons. It has always been usual in Victoria to have two bands of music, one to relieve the other, so that when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I am not on inveterate grumbler. I am reputed to be a quiet peaceable man, and slow to anger; but when I have a grievance caused by the gross stupidity, mismanagement, or incompetency of those from whom much is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No passages in the picturesque chronicles of the Middle Ages are fraught with a deeper or more abiding interest to the student than those in which the Old Historians of England, Scotland, and France describe events which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Citizens' Reception Ball to his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, with which was also combined the first public invitation to his Excellency the Right Honorable the Earl of Belmore and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday evening the long looked for ball given by the citizen's in honor of the visit of His Royal Highness to Sydney, came off in the large pavilion erected for this special purpose by…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →IN the municipal pageants of the Middle Ages, end of subsequent epochs, at which momarchs and princes have, from time to time, been the honoured guests of the people (through their elected civic magistr[?] and municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MY DEAR SIR SYDNEY, I am a citizen, if not "of credit," at any rate "of renown," and yet, strange to say, I am not going to the Citizens' Ball. Not from a want of princely or municipaloyalty do I deny the feminine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE man who did the "penny-a-line" business for the Sydney Morning Herald of yesterday is, we presume, no longer at large. Society is manifestly unsafe so long as our solemn contemporary in Hunter-street is permitted to send people out as the diplomatists of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir,—Through the Medium of your widely circulated journal, I beg to suggest to the citizens of Sydney that the highest compliment they could pay to the Mayor nnd Aldermen for the splendid ball given on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Herald says the decorations of the supper-room were of the most "gorge-ous" character. Mr. PUNCH considers the term would have been better applied to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY PUNCH has been receiving numberless advertisements every day since the Citizens' Reception Ball, for insertion in his next issue. As they are of such an heterogeneous character, S. P. cannot undertake to classify them. He begs, however, to give a few for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the night of Friday, December 6, one of the handsomest, certainly, if not the finest, theatre in London, went the way of all theatres, and was burnt to the ground in less than two hours. The fire while…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ANOTHER metropolitan theatre, on Friday night, December 6th, succumbed to that fate to which all theatres are sooner or later doomed—destruction by fire. At about fifteen minutes to 11 o'clock the passengers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On the night of Friday, Dec. 6, one of the handsomest, certainly, if not the finest, theatre in London went the way of all theatres, and was burnt to the ground in less than two hours…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—Last night I went to the above-named concert, paid for admission to the stalls, but found the place densely overcrowded. Notwithstanding, the money-takers were still taking money, when they must have known the place…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Citizens' Receplion Ball given by the Mayor and Aldermen of Sydney to the Duke of Eninburgh, came off in the spacious and beautifully decorated Hyde Park Pavilion, on Wednesday evening, the 5th February, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HEREBY the public are informed that the Managers of the above popular place of amusement, finding that the regular entertainments given there having lately become distasteful to their patrons, have determined to entirely change the character of the amusements, and…
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