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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts
52 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 3
GORTSCHAKOFF'S circular contains, among others, the following paragraph:-- "It is by no means the intention of His Imperial Majesty to revive the Eastern question......He entirely adheres to the general…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SIR,—I am a working man, and I have to work all the week to Keep the wife and youngsters in clothes and food, and it's precious little play-going or spreeing I can afford, except once or twice a year, when the missus and I saves…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Wiggins' family were verily growing emaciated. Boardinghouse diet with its exquisite refinement of cruel cookery, and nightly sleep- destroying infant concerts, were sapping their British constitutions. They bid adieu to the Lady of Good Connections, and again…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SABBATH-school teachers often feel discouraged by the loss of their older scholars. Just at the perilous age when boys and girls begin to ripen into men and women they are sent forth to win their own way in the world with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Gunner to Captain in command: WHAT AM I TO DO, SIR, THE GUN IS SO DEPRESSED I CAN'T KEEP THE BALL, FROM ROLLING OUT ? Captain (meditatively); WELL, I--AH--OH BOTHER THE BALL, FIRE WITH BLANK CARTRIDGE, THEY'LL BE NONE THE WISER…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The uncle, the father, the mother, the maid, And their friends, and foes, and relations, All cry in a voice of refusal afraid, " Oh ! how shall we get invitations ?"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the Masonic Hall on Tuesday evening last, a vocal and instrumental concert was given in aid of the above object. The fact of the concert having been postponed on a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →DEAR MR. PUNCH,--As you had the lumbago in your hu--I beg pardon-- elegant curved back, I didn't go to the concert. Perhaps you would like to hear about it. I believe it was called a complimentary concert, because the musicians gave their services in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The fifty-second anniversary of Her Majesty's birth, was commemorated on Tuesday night by the ball given by his Excellency the Governor, at Government House, whose hospitality was extended to a large number of…
Continued on Trove, page 401 →The annual ball in celebration of her Majesty's Birthday, which took place on Tuesday night at Government House, and proved one of the most enjoyable of those yearly reunions. At 9 o'clock the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →I sit down, dear Lottie, to write you A letter I've owed you this year; I know its contents will delight you, The news is so merry, my dear:…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →DEAR MR. PUNCH,--I'm black and blue, I'm yellow and red; my arms are scratched like a New Zealander's in process of tattooing; my feet are trampled into jelly; my dress is torn to rags; indeed I've left my flounces behind as a legacy to the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE ball on Tuesday evening at Pacific Hall, given by our British residents in honour of the Royal Marriage between the Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorn, consummated on that day, was a thorough success, and went off with…
Continued on Trove, page 459 →AT Bow-street, on Tuesday last, Mr. Lepold Davis Lewis, a solicitor, was charged before Mr. Vaughan with creating a disturbance in the Queen's Theatre, Long-acre, on Monday night. A person on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT Bow-street, on Tuesday last, Mr. Leopold Davis Lewis, a solicitor, was charged beforo Mr. Vaughan with creating a disturbance in the Queen's Theatre, Long-acre, on Monday night. A person on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,--Great diversity of opinion appears to exist respecting the mode in which the 12th of July ought to be celebrated. That this should be so is something extraordinary, inasmuch as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Diritto of Florence gives an account of a shocking accident which [?]ock place the other night at the Prince Humbert Theatre, in that city. A ballet pantomim[?] was being performed, in which an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE diritto of Florence gives an account of a shocking accident which took place the other night at the Prince Humbert Theatre, in that city. A ballet pantom[?] was being performed, in which an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE advantages of band-saws over every other kind of saw for many purposes in joinery and cabinet-making, are so great, that innumerable efforts have been made to construct them in such a manner as to obviate the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →For this strap, one end of which is represented in No. 16, commence with seven stitches, and knit crosswise in rows forwards and backwards, with coloured Andalusian wool frather tightly): and afterwards ornament the side edges…
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