The Return Ball to the Mayor
Evening News · Tuesday 4 March 1879 · page 2
At a meeting of the committee appointed to mats the necessary arrangements for the return ball to the Mayor and Lady Mayoress, held yesterday afternoon, at the Royal Hotel, Mr. R. B. Smith, M.L.A., was…
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Evening News · Tuesday 4 March 1879 · page 2
A meeting of the Committee of Captain Cook's Statue fund will bs held this afternoon at half-past 3, to decide as to what shall be done with the galleries now in the enclosure, and to finally agree as to how…
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Evening News · Thursday 6 March 1879 · page 3
A correspondent sends us the following clipping from an old journal:—A sale which has excited some interest here is that of a chef d[?]vre of Titian, the Danae, which has been on view at the Hotel de Ville…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1879 · page 388
A meeting of the committee appointed to make arrangements for the return ball to be given to his Worship the Mayor and the Lady Mayoress was held on Tuesday afternoon at the Royal Hotel, George-street. There were…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 March 1879 · page 21
MESSRS. John Fell and Go., of Wolverhampton and Newcastle-on-Tyne, have just introduced an extremely simple yet powerful ball valve (Jefferies' patent), which appears to be absolutely free from the…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 March 1879 · page 13
THE announcement of a new species of Sunday service or entertainment drew me on Sunday night to the Theatre Royal. The audience was a very masculine one, for the ladies scarcly know what Mr…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1879 · page 3
At the Victoria Theatre, on Saturday night, "Across the Continent," a drama of the purely sensational order was produced, and as the audience, a fairly large one, applauded frequently, it may be called a success. For this result it is…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1879 · page 3
Playgoers in Sydney should certainly congratulate Mr. Lazar upon his success at the Theatre Royal, on Saturday night, in producing "True to the Core," one of the best written plays of modern times, for it has never been…
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Evening News · Tuesday 11 March 1879 · page 2
ONE of the great hindrances to the moral progress of humanity is the want of fellow-feeling between the clergy and the laity. From the time when the Christian-priesthood first became a separate caste…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 March 1879 · page 3
The following lecture on " The Theatre, from a Christian standpoint," was delivered on Sunday evening last by the Rev. J. Jefferis, LL.B., who thus reverts to the subject introbueed by the Right Reverend the Bishop of Sydney at…
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Evening News · Thursday 20 March 1879 · page 4
At the Central Police Court, on Monday morning Arthur Woolner and Alfred Margetts were charged on remand, before Mr. Helsham, with assaulting one Thomas Coate, a constable of the police force, while…
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Evening News · Thursday 20 March 1879 · page 2
Mr. Samuel Lazar, in whose hands the carrying out of a series of moonlight concerts in the enclosure of the Captain Cook Statue, has been entrusted, is busily engaged arranging the programme, which is…
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The Protestant Standard · Saturday 22 March 1879 · page 7
On the questio vexala of the modern theatre the clerical empiric has most unexpectedly collapsed. The transformation scene consisted of three parts. At the meeting of the Y.M.C.A…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 March 1879 · page 445
The following lecture on "The Theatre, from a Christian standpoint," was delivered on Sunday evening last by the Rev. J. Jefferis, LL.B.:— I have undertaken to speak to you to-night, in the way…
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Evening News · Monday 24 March 1879 · page 4
The suggestions made by the EVENING NEWS a few days since that the Exhibition Commission should accept the offer of the organise and choirmasters of Sydney to give a series of musical performances at…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 March 1879 · page 493
As it is usual for Parliaments of Europeans and assemblages of various kinds to conclude with a ball (says the New Zealand Herald of the 10th instant), so the Maori Parliament at Orakei concluded on Saturday with a grand…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 31 March 1879 · page 6
The play produced at the Victoria Theatre on Saturday night was "Formosa; or, the Railroad the Ruin." The title is sufficiently suggestive, and the play itself is one of that class which furnishes the strongest argument to the…
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Evening News · Monday 31 March 1879 · page 4
A wrifer in the London World says:—It is impossible to conceive a place wore utterly played out than Brighton this season; there is literally no one there; and what amuses me is, that if by…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 31 March 1879 · page 6
That inspiriting little drama, "Neck or Nothing," wa repeated at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, before an audience that appreciated it consistently and in several instances applauded it enthusiastically. It is based on…
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Evening News · Monday 31 March 1879 · page 4
The Theatre Royal, Glasgow, was burned down early on Sunday morning, February 2. On the closing of the theatre on Saturday night, which was the last night of the pantomime, the manager…
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