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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts
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The bank rate of interest is fixed at 4 per cent. Tenders are invited for the purchase of £180,000 worth of stock in the South Australian 4 per cent. loan at £90…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Civic ball, given at the Mansion House, in honour of his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh and the Princess Marie, was a very brilliant affair…
Continued on Trove, page 606 →SIR,—If a shot from a cannon had been fired into my breakfast-room this morning, the thrill of horror could scarcely have been more general than th[?]t which the announcement in your journal created, to the effect that there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—And so "Materfamili[?]" believes that a great injustice is done to certain young ladies by his Excellency's resolve not to give a birthday ball. The opportunity will be lost of "introducing young people into a wider circle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE May Ball is not to take place this year, because there is not sufficient room in Government House, and His Excellency intends to supply various asylums with roast beef and plum pudding. The idea of giving roast beef and plum-pudding no doubt illustrates our…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →(Evening Post.) THE student of human nature will discover few opportunities, the conditions of which are so favourable to the pursuit of his hobby, as are afforded by attending at the theatre. Here, to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →SIR,—I thank " Paterfamilias " for the hearty laugh which the reading of his letter in this morning's Herald occasioned. Our undried tears vanished like snow at the, burlesque-like view he took of the case. In the words of a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—If I understand "Materfamilies" aright, it is through the medium of Vice-regal entertainments, or those of a like high character, that many young ladies aro introduced to the outer world, and to this means they look…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—[?] does not sum up my argument aright, when he supposes that I look upon the introduction of young ladies at the Viceregal ball as "the means of emancipation from the irksomeness of celibacy." Hitberto the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—I did not intend to say another word on the above subject; but I must again crave room for a line or two. "Materfamilias" says I have mistaken her argument. "Permit me to observe that I think, from the tenor of your…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BROWNJONES, SENIOR, IS DELIGHTED. MRS. BROWNJONES…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →OUT upon it all! What do you want to bother Mr. PUNCH with bushels of bosh-correspondence, bristling with burning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE opening of the foot ball season of 1874 took place on Saturday last, when the members of the above club assembled on Moore Park to play a match which had been arranged between the Civil Service and Banks combined and the…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →I DO do not think that there are many more agreeable eights or Hounds than those which are pre sented at an openair concert. The conditions of weather, locality, and so forth, must, of course…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →On Monday evening last, the members of St. Patrick's Young Men's Society gave a concert in the above hall, Kent-street North. George Hurley, Esq., occupied the chair on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"DARLING PUNCH,-- I am an admirer of the popular public songstresses-- the Carandini's -- who have many triumphs. I have a grievance which, with your kind aid, I hope to ventilate through the columns of my jolly jocular journal. My complaint against the Sydney public is, that it encores singers in nearly every piece or song they sing-- now this becomes tiresome and distressing. A few…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ON Monday, March 30th, the first Inter-University match that has yet taken place in London according to the rules of the Football Association, was played on the Surrey Cricket ground at Kennington Oval. Neither University…
Continued on Trove, page 790 →Over five hundred persons, among them his Excellency the Governor and suite, two of the Ministers, and most of the leading citizens, were present at St…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE Manson House Ball to welcome the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh to the City of London, on April 29, was one of the man brilliant entertainments of the kind ever given. All the decorations and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Mansion House Ball to welcome the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh to the City of London, on April 29, was one of tho most brilliant entertainments of the kind ever given. All the decorations and…
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