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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1889

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Tasmania. a New Theatre

The Australian Star · Tuesday 5 February 1889 · page 5

HOBART, This Day.--The project for the erection of a new theatre in a central position has been favorably received, and is likely to be successful…

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Pictures of Royalty. Charcoal Sketches of Kings. Queens, Princes, and Princesses

The Australian Star · Tuesday 5 February 1889 · page 8

IT is something of a shock to find out that kings and queens and princesses are not always so beautiful as to pale the lustre of the sun, as we have been taught…

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Amusements. the Cowen Concerts

Evening News · Tuesday 5 February 1889 · page 5

The first matinee performance of the now justly celebrated Centennial Orchestra was given in the Exhibition Building, yesterday, and was a gigantic success…

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Amusements. the Cowen Orchestral Concerts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 February 1889 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The excellent series of orchestral concerts under the direction of Mr. F. H. Cowen was continued yesterday, a matinee being given in the afternoon, beside the evening concert. Respecting the former there was some…

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Pictures for Sydney. an Angry Artist

Evening News · Wednesday 6 February 1889 · page 5

LONDON, February 5.-Mr. Mortimer Menpes tracts a number of his etchings with, the collection of Anglo-Australian artists' pictures which are to be exhibited in Sydney, and which will…

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Cablegrams. (From Our Correspondent.) Collection of Pictures for Sydney. London, Feb. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 February 1889 · page 7

The Anglo-Australian Artists' collection to be exhibited in Sydney, includes 300 valuable pictures and a numberof etchings…

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Amusements. the Cowen Orchestral Concerts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 February 1889 · page 9
Also in The Daily Telegraph

It was very gratifying to note last evening that there was a vast increase in the numbers comprising the audience at the Cowen orchestral concerts for it curries out practically what has already been persistently…

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Theatrical and Musical. the Orchestral Concerts

The Australian Star · Wednesday 6 February 1889 · page 8

It has been oft repe[?]ted that a word to the wise is sulli[?]nt, and now we say to those who wish, for brevity's sake, to be classed amongst tho Sydney magi, go and…

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Pictures for New Zealand

Evening News · Thursday 7 February 1889 · page 5

LONDON, February 5.-Sir Francis Dillon Bell, Agent-General for New Zealand, has been promised the loan of forty pictures for the Dunedin Exhibition. The pictures include several…

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Pictures for New Zealand. London, Feb. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 February 1889 · page 7

Sir F. Dillon Bell, the Agent-General for New Zealand, has been promised 40 pictures for the Dunedin Exhibition, including several from the collection of the Prince of…

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The Cowen Concerts

Evening News · Thursday 7 February 1889 · page 5

The dress circle was packed as full as it could be, and the family circle and pit were also fairly filled, at the Cowen concert, yesterday afternoon, in Her Majesty's Theatre. The first item on the…

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Amusements. the Cowen Orchestral Concerts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 February 1889 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The series of orchestral concerts under the direction of Mr. F. H. Cowen, was continued yesterday, a matin?e being given at Her Majesty's Theatre during the afternoon, in addition to the usual evening…

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The Cowen Concerts

Evening News · Friday 8 February 1889 · page 4

An immense audience assembled last night in the Exhibition Building to hear the concert given by the Cowen Centennial Orchestra. There were between two and three thousand persons present,…

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Amusements. the Cowen Orchestral Concerts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 February 1889 · page 3
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Again an enormous audience gathered together last evening to hear the Orchestral Concert at the Exhibition Building, the number of persons present being about 3000. This may be fairly taken as indicative of…

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The Orchestral Concerts

The Australian Star · Friday 8 February 1889 · page 6

YESTERDAY the Centennial Orchestra, under Mr. Cowen's direction, gave an afternoon concert as well as the usual evening performance. At the latter they were…

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Victorian Orchestra

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 5

MELBOURNE, This Day. -- The gentlemen who are interesting themselves in the formation of a Victorian Orchestra, have placed the affair on a business footing, and…

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