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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1873

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Telegrams This Day Fancy Dress Ball at Melbourne. Melbourne Bettikg Ring. Sudden Death at Condobolin. Fatal Accident at Newcastle Probable Wreck on the Coast. Rejection of the Victorian Mining on Private Property Bill. the Electoral Reform Bill. City of Hobart Town G.M. Co. Latest From Adelaide. Resignation of Mr. Reynolds. Improvement of the Murray Mouth. Latest Commercial. &c., &c., &c MELBOURNE. Thursday, 2.58 p.m

Evening News · Friday 29 August 1873 · page 2

Fifteen hundred guests were present at the Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball, and the affair came off with the most unmistakable eclat. Many of the costumes were magnificent, and all…

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The Mayor of Melbourne's Fancy Dress Ball

Empire · Tuesday 2 September 1873 · page 3
Also in Evening News

THE Grand Fancy Dress Ball given at the Town Hal Melbourne, on Wednesday night last, by the Right Worshipful the Mayor (Mr. O'Grady), proved a brilliant and unequivocal success. It could not, of course, lay…

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Ladies' Column. The Mayor of Melbourne's Fancy Dress Ball

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 September 1873 · page 19

THE Grand Fancy Dress Ball given at the Town Ha[?]l, Melbourne, on Wednesday night last, by the Right Worshipful the Mayor (Mr. O'Grady), proved a brilliant and unequivocal success. It could not, of course, lay…

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Telegrams This Day Marine Inquiry at Melborune. the Mayor's Return Ball. Stafford, the Absconder. Arrival of the Omeo. Man Found Drowned. the Intercolonial Rifle Match Mining Disturbances. Schooner Aground at Sale. the Melbourne Races. Melbourne Meat Company. Rust in Wheat at Willunga. Latest COMMERCIAL,&c., &c., c. BATHURST

Evening News · Tuesday 7 October 1873 · page 2

William Stafford, of the firm of Stafford and Tarrant, drapers, is the absconder referred to in my yesterday's communication. He has carried on a system of fraud for some time, and has…

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The Gulgong Escort. Scene at Madame Goddard's Concert. Goulburn Assizes. Mining on Private Property Bill. Railway to Wangaratta. Melbourne Races. a Man and Woman Drowned in the Yarra. the Mount and Morris Case. Latest Commercial, &c., &c., &c. Thursday. 10.12 a.m

Evening News · Thursday 9 October 1873 · page 2

[?] The escort left this morning, with 4602oz 13dwts gold and L129 in cash. The picnic to the Church of England day…

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Music of a Brass Band

Sydney Punch · Friday 10 October 1873 · page 2

In Sydney I was walking once, And gazing at the window's beauties ; I did not think of scampish thieves, The very first of caution's duties…

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Foot Power Band Saw

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 October 1873 · page 13

THE accompanying engraving represents an application of the "Vertical Multiplier" to the band saw. As we presume that the general details of the invention are sufficiently familiar to our readers, we…

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Catholic School Concert

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 November 1873 · page 6

CHILDREN'S concerts have come to be among the most popular, pleasing, and successful entertainments presented to the public in Young, and that given by the children of the Catholic school…

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Panic in the Victoria Theatre

Evening News · Monday 3 November 1873 · page 2
Also in Empire

DURING the play of "Hamlet" at the Victoria Theatre on Saturday night, an explosion of gas occurred on the stage, and a panic amongst the audience immediately followed to such an amongst extent, that at one part…

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To a Coquette. Written After a Ball

Sydney Punch · Friday 7 November 1873 · page 4

FAIR maid you waste those witching smiles, Their darts are nought to me; My heart is proof against your wiles; My breast is steeled to thee…

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Queen's Theatre

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 November 1873 · page 2

This place of popular amusement has become, as it deserves to be under the present respectable management, more popular than ever. During the week it was largely attended, and…

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Queen's Theatre

Sydney Punch · Friday 14 November 1873 · page 3

THE little QUEEN-- not Victoria on her throne-- but the theatre in York-street, is doing a bushel of business, though the amusement is measured out by a Gill. People seem to have taken to it like mother's milk, the entertainments being of a kind to suit a good…

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Queen's Theatre, York-street

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 November 1873 · page 7

This place of amusement has been fairly patronized during the week, and the pieces produced have been carefully played, evidencing a large amount of careful study on the part…

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Queen's Theatre. Scud

Sydney Punch · Friday 21 November 1873 · page 7

YOU cannot enjoy the Derby every day; but a very good imitation as far as the excitement is concerned can be indulged in every night at the Queen's Theatre, where be "Flying Scud" always wins the prize-applause…

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De Dance-up Song. (Music and motion combine in our notion.)

Sydney Punch · Friday 21 November 1873 · page 7

HOP, skip, jump, Nuffin like de newest notion,--Thrill, throb, thump, Make de mose ob merry motion…

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Domestic Medicine. Diseases and their Treatment. Saint Vitus's Dance

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 November 1873 · page 10

THIS is a norvous disease, slightly spasmodic, and called " Ohoroa," the Greek word for dance. It attacks youth, either male or female; but the latter more frequently than the former, and although easily cured by…

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Painful Scene in a Theatre

Evening News · Saturday 29 November 1873 · page 7
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

A most painful scene has occurred at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Birmingham. It was the first night of the production of "Henry V.," with a special company, and all the elaborate scenic and other accessories as…

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