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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1866

3 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers

The Exhibition of the Royal Academy

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 1 September 1866 · page 4

A week or so ago, the postman comes rub-a-dub-dub at our dore with a big hard from the Presserdunt and other fellers of the Rile Academy in Trafalgar-square, arskin'me if I'd mind…

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The Singleton Agricultural and Horticultural Show. Visit of His Excellency the Governor-in-chief

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 1 September 1866 · page 2

Wednesday last was a gals day with the Signletonians, the occasion being the holding of the Agricultural and Horticultural Annual Show, and the laying of the foundation stone…

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Fair Play

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 1 December 1866 · page 3

MISTER EDITOR-I begs to ask if this is juscice: I goes and spends my money at a "public" until I gets drunk, and the police, on my way home, take and lock men up, and altho' I have money, but no friends, they keep it and…

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