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Hunter Valley · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1899

307 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 16

Morpeth Industrial Exhibition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 September 1899 · page 5

The Juvenile Industrial Exhibition was concluded at Morpeth on Saturday night,when the hall of the School of Arts was comfortably crowded with people. In fact,…

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Greater Britain Exhibition

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 13 September 1899 · page 2

Visitors to London who have returned to Sydney are pretty unanimous in their testimony to the effect that New South Wales has suffered…

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Maitland Show [?]

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 September 1899 · page 4

THE annual mooting of the members of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association was held at the Town-hall on Monday. Mr…

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The Dreyfus Case. a Thrilling Appeal to France. Dreyfus a Physical Wreck. a Boycott of the Exhibition Demanded. London, Sept. 13

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 September 1899 · page 3

M. Zola's letter to L'Awore, a Parisian newt paper, denouncing the Dreyfus verdict, is a tbrilling appeal to French, and contains many passages of passionate invective It state that the trial is…

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The Dreyfus Case. Anxiety About the Exhibition. Will Dreyfus Be Pardoned. Bitter Reeling in America. London, Sept. 14. The [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 September 1899 · page 3

The [?] are dismayed at the prospects of the Paris Exhibition being boycotted. There is a growing expectation that Dreyfus will be pardoned at an early date…

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Maitland Show Committee

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 September 1899 · page 4

THE annual meeting of the members of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association was held at the Town-hall on Monday. Mr. Robert…

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A Rose Show

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 September 1899 · page 2

WHEN we call to mind the magnificent display of roses and other flowers exhibited in the School of Arts last year as a result of the efforts of the…

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The Paris Exhibition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 September 1899 · page 3

It fa now Stated that the prospect of millions of foreigners visiting the forthcoming Paris Exhibition greatly assisted the cause of Dreyus…

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State Butter Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 September 1899 · page 3

The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Fegan) has approved of the second State Butter Show being held in Sydney this week. These competitions were inaugurated for the purpose of testing the…

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Vera's Flirtation. Chapter Iv. "All Is Fair in Love and War."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 September 1899 · page 6

For One brief moment after Clark Wellington ceased speaking, he and Margery Carlyle stood looking into each other's pale face in utter silence…

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Flower Show

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 2

THE date of the holding of the Amateur Flower Show has been fixed for 17th October. The schedule of prizes, which is now ready for distribution, is…

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The Greater Britain Exhibition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 October 1899 · page 3

Expert have criticised unfavourably some of the Queensland wins and dark to hacco at the Greater Britain Exhibition, Earl's Court. They eulogised…

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Young People's Garden Fair and Sale of Work

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 October 1899 · page 3

This afternoon there was opened in the grounds of Brough House, Church-street, a young people's garden fair and sale of work. The fair had been arranged by a committee of girls and young women,…

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Northern District Cyclists' Carnival

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 October 1899 · page 2

The following handicaps have been declared for the cyclists' carnival, which takes place on the Rugby Union Ground, Newcastle, on saturday next :—…

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Fine Arts at Gunnedah. Re-opening of the School of Arts. Interesting Exhibition. Gunnedah

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 October 1899 · page 3

The School of Arts, which has lately been enlarged from plans and specifications prepared by Mr. J. Warren Scobie, of West Maitland, was reopened last night with an exhibition of fine arts…

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Poetry. Shapes Forever Fair

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 5

Wo[?]dst look upon what r[?]tbless years bare dona With loveliest things that ever knew the sun, Delve not where The mould is on old marbles rare;…

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Gunnedah. the Fine Arts Exhibition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 3

In connection with the Art Exhibition the following further awards have been declared in the art section:—Australian Landscape in oils, A. H. Fullwood, Sidney, "The Clarence River, near…

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Norton District Cyclists' Union. Championship Carnival

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 October 1899 · page 4

The first grand amateur championship carnival of the Northern District Cyclists' Union was held on the Rugby Union Ground at Newcastle on Saturday. The afternoon was fine and cool, but…

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Durham A. and H. Association

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 10 October 1899 · page 2

The quarterly meeting was held on Friday last. There were present—Messrs. W. Bennett, M.P. (in the chair), J. Barnes, A. Henny, B. Cook…

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Amateur Flower Show

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 11 October 1899 · page 2

FRIENDS of the local School of Arts arc expected to interest themselves in the flower show which is to be held in the Hall of the institution on Tuesday…

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