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''[[The British Volunteers]]'' is a farce by an anonymous author.
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Little can be found of any play by this name, but according to ''The Argus'', Melbourne, a play referred to as ''[[The Rino, and How to Use It]]'', featuring the exact same characters, was performed at , at the Pantheon Theatre, Cremorne Gardens, Melbourne on 16 January, 1860. It had apparently opened at the Haymarket Theatre. London, in 1859.
 
 
 
1860: Performed as ''[[The British Volunteers]]'' by the [[Amateurs of the Band]] on November 26. The cast consisted of [[W. Dansie]] (Mr Percival Floff), [[J. M'Kechnie]] (Mr Sydney Jubkins), [[T. Brooker]] (Alfred Charles Mutton, a policeman), [[W. Allan]] (Pad), [[M. Rafferty]] (Mrs Percival Floff), [[J. F. Gay]] (Mrs Sydney Jubkins0, [[J. Durney]] (Mary). Also performed were  ''[[The Review, or The Wags of Windsor]]'' and ''[[The Wandering Minstrel]]''
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Advertisement, ''The Argus'' (Melbourne), Wednesday January 18, I860: p. 4.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5695581]
 

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