Author: (Nicholson, Tammie).
Title: [Broadside]: "Return of the Kilties. The Sports Secretaries Have Much Pleasure in Presenting the Cootamundra Kilties in the Procession and Sports on 5th October, 1908.
Description: [Australia], 1908. 1908. - A 9-3/4 inch high by 8 inch wide broadside with text printed within a formal and floral decorated gilt and blue roulette frame. "This First-class Band have just returned from an extended tour of the world as far as Brungle, where they performed before His Majesty King Bill and an immense audience of gins and picaninnies. So pleased was His Royal Highness with the programme that he presented the Conductor with the Order of the Nulla-Nulla." Further "The Giant Drum Major (10ft. by 9-1/2in.) will lead the Band. The World Famed Clan of Lesbobster Pipers, The Reel o' Thompson-street, by the clever family of McPhee Dancers." Furthermore the performance will include the "Wonderful Cornice Player, Tammie Nicholson", who is also here listed as the business manager at the bottom. If the text is not playful enough, the "Important Notice" at bottom implores that "Small boys (and big girls) are requested not to interfere with kilts of bandsmen." Creased along the edges and corners with some minor soiling. There are pieces out from the bottom edge as well as lower right edge which, though not affecting the text, has resulted in some loss to the decorated borders. Short tears to the edges have been reinforced with clear archival document tape from the verso.

Located in New South Wales, Australia, the town of Cootamundra is in the South West Slopes region within the Riverina. Brungle, mentioned in the text as the location where a performance took place before King Bill, is a village located in the central east part of the Riverina region. King Bill is here stated has having presented the conductor with the Order of the Nulla-Nulla. A Nulla Nulla is an Aboriginal Australian club used for hunting and fighting and also serves as a deadly hunting boomerang shaped like the number 7.

The program also lists the performance of a symphony by Herr Cyclone Gates titled "Ten Miles from Gundagai". The small town of Gundagai in New South Wales, Australia is popular with writers as representing a typical Australian country town.

RARE. Fair .

Keywords: HISTORY; MUSIC; CONCERT; BAND; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN; BROADSIDE; RETURN OF THE KILTIES; COOTAMUNDRA KILTIES; PROCESSION AND SPORTS; NEW SOUTH WALES; KING BILL; BRUNGLE; THE ORDER OF THE NULLA NULLA; BOOMERANG; MAC VERNON; CLAN OF LESBOBSTER PIPERS; THE RE

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