Mercantile Rowing Club Ball
Evening News · Friday 2 June 1876 · page 2
A ball to celebrate the second anniversary of the Mercantile Rowing Club took place at the Masonic Hall last night. The Hall was tastefully decorated with evergreens and flags, and lit up with Chinese lanterns,…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 3 June 1876 · page 2
A grand complimentary musical entertainment was given to the people of Parramatta on Monday evening last, by Mr. Whitwam, the new organist of All…
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Evening News · Monday 5 June 1876 · page 2
Mrs. Scott-Siddons reached the climax of further tenderness on Saturday night, and gave such a finished and graceful yet withal pleasing rendering of King Rene's blind daughter, Iolanthe, that oven hardened…
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Evening News · Tuesday 6 June 1876 · page 2
Choukiczee, the Chinese giant, alongside whom Chang would appear no great circumstance, made his debut here at the Queen's Theatre on Saturday. It was thought at first that the announcement was one of the…
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Evening News · Wednesday 7 June 1876 · page 2
In another column appears the programme of a grand evening concert to be given to-morrow (Thursday evening), in the Odd Fellows' Hall, Woollahra, in aid of the Local Volunteer Fire Brigade. The…
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Evening News · Thursday 8 June 1876 · page 2
The somewhat lugubrious but absorbingly interesting drama of "The Stranger" was performed last night, at the Theatre Royal, to a packed house. Some time before the opening, the doors were blocked by…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1876 · page 744
THE moment docs not appear Inopportune for making a few remarks as to the desirability of plating pictures recently executed under glass, and for examining, as far as we can, the reasons for and against a rule existing in the…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1876 · page 744
MR. Millais's new pictures differ materially from the "Stella" and "Vanessa" be exhibited at the Royal Academy some nine years since, although the present works correspond both in title and subject with their predecessors…
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Evening News · Saturday 10 June 1876 · page 2
Following the precedent of his own origination last year, his Excellency the Governor, on Friday, 20th May, celebrated the anniversary of the birthday of her Majesty the Queen by a fancy dress ball, in lieu of the…
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Evening News · Monday 12 June 1876 · page 2
This play, which has had an unprecedented run in Melbourne, was performed at the Victoria Theatre on Saturday night. The curiosity to see a piece that had for to long enchanted our neighbours) was of course…
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Evening News · Saturday 17 June 1876 · page 4
Ingomar, the Barbarian, was well played at the Royal Mrs. Siddons gave a splendid rendering of a refined Parshenia. Such as the author pictured; and Mr. Chaplin was simply magnificent as the Barbarian…
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Evening News · Wednesday 21 June 1876 · page 2
The Lady of Lyons, in which Mrs. Scott-Siddons pourtrnys her pleasing, if not greatest character, was presented last night to a brilliant house. To-night Romeo and Juliet is played. The season closes on…
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Evening News · Thursday 22 June 1876 · page 2
Six foreigners, seamen on board the E. and A. mail steamship, Brisbane, named Farrayal, Hammell, Pedro Antonio, Monoohan, Mahomecadie, and Sunsuddie, were charged at the Water Police Court this…
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Evening News · Friday 23 June 1876 · page 2
Mrs. Siddons ends to-night as she began, with "As you Like It." Yon Like It." There is a Urge " let" of seats, and every probability of a very crowded house. No actress who has visited us has achieved a more genuine, or…
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Evening News · Friday 23 June 1876 · page 3
The Theatre of Arte at Rouen and several adjoining buildings were turned on April 25. The opera of Hamlet was about to about, and the actors had nearly all assembled, when at a quarter-past…
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Evening News · Friday 23 June 1876 · page 2
Will be played at tie Rising Sun (Mr. Peter Porter's) Elizabeth-street south, to-morrow (Saturday), the 24th instant, at 2 p.m. for £20, between Andrew Dillon and John Ryan V. M'Hale and E. Farrell. As…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 June 1876 · page 27
The Theatre of Arts at Rouen and several adjoining buildings were burned on April 25. The opera of Hamlet was about to be played, and the actors had nearly all assembled, when at a quarter-past…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 24 June 1876 · page 2
An advertisement in another column announces that the Carandini Company will re-appear at the School of Arts on Thursday evening next. We have no…
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Evening News · Monday 26 June 1876 · page 2
Mr. Emmet is now in his third week as "Fritz, our Cousin German," at the Victoria Theatre, and is in the zenith of his popularity. To say that there was a crowded house on Saturday night is but to repeat an…
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Evening News · Thursday 29 June 1876 · page 2
Miss Carey takes her fareweel benefit at this house to-night, and sustains the part of Galatea in the mythological drama which has drawn such crowded houses during the week. To-morrow the Mortona play "Under…
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