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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1876

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The Centennial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 July 1876 · page 4

HIGH in the empyrean the American national bird emits his shriek and invites the world to his Centennial show. At enormous expense the News Letter…

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Centennial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 July 1876 · page 2

30,000 people daily attend the Conten[?] Exhibition…

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Northern Agricultural Association. Annual Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 August 1876 · page 2

THE ninth-annual exhibition in connection with the Northern Agricultural Association took place yesterday, at the Show Ground Singleton, in the presence of a considerable…

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Northern Agricultural Association. Ninth Annual Show. Second Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 August 1876 · page 2

YESTERDAY the weather was as fine and clear as could be desired, and there was on the Show Ground during the day no less than between eight and thousand persons…

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Queensland Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 August 1876 · page 2

THE first Queensland Exhibition opened to-day in Brisbane by his Excellency Governor Cairns with great ceremony, and is an immense success. Thursday has been observed…

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Queensland Exhibition. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 August 1876 · page 4

THE Queensland Exhibition may now be said to be virtually at an end, although the formal closing is not fixed until Monday night. The Exhibition has been a thorough success in…

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The Photographers. Exhibition of the Largest Negative Ever Made

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 August 1876 · page 5

THE Photographers Art Society of the Pacific Coast, held a regular monthly meeting last evening, in the gallery of Messrs. Bradley and Rulofson, on…

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Waxwork Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 September 1876 · page 2

The public of Newcastle may look forward to a very pleasant method of spending an hour or two in the above exhibition, at the Theatre Royal,…

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Latest Telegrams. Charge of Manslaughter. Another Prisoner Shot at Narrabri. a Woman Burnt to Death. the English Ambassador at Constantinople Instructed to Denounce, and Demand the Punishment of the Perpetrators of the Bulgarian Atrocities. the Philadelphia Exhibition—eighty-three Awards Made to Australia. Arrival of Californian Mail. Rev. Charles Clark. Small-pox in San Francisco. International Rowing Match. Great Fire—600 Houses Burned. Moody and Sankey Disagreed. Ship Burned Atsea.—the Captain and Eight Others Died of Starvation; Rest of the Crew Saved. Sydney. Monday Night, r[?]d, 9 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 October 1876 · page 2

At the inquest held to-day, on the body of Elizabeth Hornby, a married woman, who is supposed to have died from violence used by Heary Williams, a man with whom she…

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A Baby Show in New Zealand

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 November 1876 · page 2

AT the Athletic Sports held at Wellington (New Zealand), lately, the principal event of the day was the Baby Show held in a booth at the southern end of the ground…

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Flower Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 December 1876 · page 3

There was a flower show held on Thursday last at the School of Arts, under the auspices of the Miurrurund, Horticultural Society, and on the whole it…

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Public School Exhibition and Distribution of Prizes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1876 · page 4

THE breaking up of the Newcastle Public School for the Christmas holidays was atteded with several very pleasing cerenonies, and anexhiblition of the skill of the pupils was given,…

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