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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts
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The Diritto of Florence gives an account of ashocking accident which took place the other night at the Prince Humbert Theatre, in that city. A ballet pantomime was being performed, in which an…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →SIR,—I wish to he distinctly understood as expressing no opinion whatever respecting Orangeism, but I observe dancing to form one of its adjuncts. I do not know that any Methodist danced at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—A Methodist office-bearer, in your paper of to-day draws the notice of Methodists to the rules of the body prohibiting dancing and the employment of dancing masters. The penalty he states, if persisted in, to be expulsion, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE anniversary ball of the Orangemen of New South Wales, probably the most numerously attended gathering of the kind ever held in Sydney, took place on the 12th instant, at the Exhibition Building, Prince…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →ONE of the most extraordinary and disgraceful scenes ever witnessed in Victoriea was enacted on Saturday in the Richmond Paddook. The occasion was the football match between fifteen of Carlton…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →'Tis a game that should cause a few penitent times, For, whether he loses or wins, It makes a man think of his legs and his crimes, And makes a man grieve for his s(h)ins…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →On the afternoon and evening of May 31st, her Majesty gave another grand ball and supper at Balmoral to servants of the household, gamekeepers, foresters, and gardeners, and also to most of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the afternoon and evening of May 31st, her Majesty gave another grand hall and supper at Balmoral to servants of the household, gamekeepers, foresters, and gardeners, and also to most of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the afternoon and evening of May 31st, her Majesty gave another grand ball and supper at Balmoral to servants of the household, gamekeepers, foresters, and gardeners, and also to most of the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →THE Flowers determined to give a grand ball on the happy occasion of "Miss Rosebud's " coming out. "John Quil" wrote the invites, and then the notes were carried round by the "Scarlet Runners." The company was varied in size,…
Continued on Trove, page 764 →London—or at any rate the upper ten thousand of London (observes the Standard)—has abundantly testified her respect for the memory of the great Scottish poet born a Century ago. The "Waverley" ball has had a success…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London—or at any rate the upper ten thousand of London (observes the Standard)—has abundantly testified her respect for the memory of the great Scottish poet born a century ago. The "Waverley" ball has had a success…
Continued on Trove, page 843 →THE curious productions known as poker pictures, or poker drawings, have neither paint nor inlay, neither pressing nor cutting. They are nothing but panels of wood in which dark shadings have been produced by the application of…
Continued on Trove, page 841 →THE annual ball under the auspices of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales took place last evening in the Exhibition building, Prince Alfred Park, and was one of the most successful and brilliant entertainments of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE annual ball under the auspices of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales took place on Tuesday evening in the Exhibition building, Prince Alfred Park, and was one of the most successful and brilliant entertainments of the…
Continued on Trove, page 883 →The Haymarket Theatre was totally destroyed by fire last night. It is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary, but this in doubtful, us others believe that the fire in the litchen, or live embers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONE of the largest conflagrations which has occurred in Melbourne for years raged last evening in the precincts of the eastern market. The Haymarket-cum-Duke-of-Edinburgh Theatre was almost as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE of the largest conflagrations which has ocourred in Melbourne for years raged lost evening in the precincts of the eastern market. The Haymarketc[?]-Duke-of-Edinburgh[?]Theatre was almost as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AUSPICIOUSLY enough, the new cycle of events in the career of the Victoria Theatre, was ushered in on Saturday evening. There has now teen no permanent dramatic company at this house for many…
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