Complimentary Concert
A COMPLIMENTARY concert was given to Miss Winifred O'Hara (the blind vocalist) in St. Francis's hall last Wednesday, when upwards of a thousand, persons awarded their patronage…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1874
115 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 6
Explosion, and Exciting Scene at the Queen's Theatre
LAST night, at about a quarter to 9, a serious explosion occurred at the Queen's Theatre. It appears that a mechanist, named Winning, and an assistant, named Stewart; were manufacturing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News of the Day. Explosion, and Exciting Scene at the Queen's Theatre
LAST night, at about a quarter to 9, a serious explosion occurred at the Queen's Theatre. It appears that a mechanist, named Winning, and an assistant, named Stewart, were manufacturing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Western Australian Explorers. Resignation of the Rev. Charles Clark, a Publishers Hand Cut Off by Machinery. Gippsland Railway. Mayor's Ball and Concert. a Newspaper Proprietor Insolvent. Kidnapping on the High Seas. the Tyburnia with Immigrants for Sydney. Intercolonial Rifle Match. Melbourne. Wednesday, 7.50 p.m
Messrs. Powers, Rutherford, and Co. report: Twenty thousand sheep have been yarded, which sold at some advance, say, wethers 13s. to 15s; ewes, 103 to 12s. Eleven hundred cattle yarded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Base Ball in England
BY the lately arrived mail we have intelligence of a grand match at the American national outdoor game being played in England. It was the first appearance of the American champions on English shores, and (says a writer) I was…
Continued on Trove, page 429 →In the Ball of St. Pauls. (Once-a-Week.)
CORKSCREW staircases of stone, corkscrew staircases of iron, darkness and dust, beam and rafter, breackneck ladders, a tight squeeze between iron bars, another climb…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Tales. Cupid on a Swiss Tour; Or, Pictures Among Tee Snow Mountains. a Story for Girls. Chapter Iii.—the Ladies Arriving at Newhaus Arr Attacked by Hotel-touters—they at Last Reach the Pension Brausite.—miss Bearuport's First Table D'hote
THERE was no steamer to Interlachen till the afternoon, and many fears were entertained that it might cloud over before then. But it proved as bright and clear as the morning, so Miss Beaufort and her charges…
Continued on Trove, page 442 →The Mayor of Melbourne Fancy Dress Ball
THE Melbourne papers devote columns to the description of the Mayor's fancy dress ball, given on Thursday night. We extract the following: The ball last night was not inferior either in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ladies' Column. The Mayor of Melbourne's Fancy Dress Ball
THE Melbourne papers devote columns to the description of the Mayor's fancy dress ball, given on Thursday night. We extract the following: The balllast night was not inferior either in the…
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ON Monday evening last (says the Wagga Wagga Express) a concert by local amateurs, together with a lecture by Mr. O'Mara, were given at the Masonic-hall. A large and appreciative audience…
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A CORRESPONDENT supplies the following to the Parkes Gazette :— The grand concert given in aid of the Roman Catholic church and school, now in course of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Base-ball. the American Game
FIRST let us premise that base-ball is a scientific game, more difficult than many who are in the habit of judging hastily from the outward semblance can possibly imagine. It is, in fact, the cricket of the American continent,…
Continued on Trove, page 495 →Tales. Cupid on a Swiss Tour; or Pictures Among the Snow Mountains. a Story for Girls
CHAPTER V.—REGINALD GRANGE FIRST SEES THE BERNESE OBERLAND—THE CATHEDRAL AT BERNS—TWO YOUNG LADIES HAIL THE ARRIVAL OF A HANDSOME ENGLISH GENTLEMAN AT THE PENSION…
Continued on Trove, page 489 →Concert in Aid of St, John's Church, Kent-street
ON Monday night last a concert of vocal and instrumental music was given in the Masonichall, York-street, in aid of the funds of St. John's Church, Kent-street, The large hall was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tales. Cupid on a Swiss Tour; Or, Pictures Among the Snow Mountains. a Story for Girls. Chapter Vi.—cupid Making Ready His Darts While the Sun Sets Over the Lakes—kate Will Pli[?]t—the Chape[?]one Tries to Do Her Duty
"THERE is one virtue these foreigners have," said Miss Beaufort at breakfast, after a morning greeting of "Bon-jour, madame," from the hotel master. "They certainly are most polite in their mode of address. I…
Continued on Trove, page 537 →Pictures From Ireland
WE take a few extracts from an article in The Catholic World, entitled "A Glimpse of the Green Isle":— THE ROCK OF CASHEL…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The American Base-ball Players
The game of base-ball which, during the last ten years has grown so rapidly in favour on the ether side of the Atlantic, that it is now regarded by oar American cousins as their national pastime, appears to an English spectator very much…
Continued on Trove, page 552 →Tales. Cupid on a Swiss Tour; Or, Pictures Among the Snow Mountains. a Story for Girls. Chapter Vii.—sunday at Interlachen and Choral Disasters. Lauterbrunnen and the Staubbach Fall
HITHERTO Miss Beaufort and the girls had been confining themselves to walks and drives in the immediate environs of Interlachen. "You see we are like cats," Kate explained to a…
Continued on Trove, page 570 →Amusing Scene in a Theatre
During the performance of "Richelieu" last night at the Queen's Theatre, upon the conclusion of one of the scenes, a man-of-war's-man belonging to the Blanche, jumped upon the stage and insisted on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tales. Cupid on a Swiss Tour; Or, Pictures Among the Snow Mountains. a Story for Girls. Chapter Viii.—the Ascent to Murren—an Esthetic Picnic.—wooing, Hunger, and Climbing Not Compatible—the Hero Collapses
Only two hones had been engaged for the ascent of the mountain. One was appropriated entirely to Miss Beaufort, and the other was to be ridden alternately by the young ladies, while the gentleman of…
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