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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1877

47 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 3

The Sydney Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 April 1877 · page 2

The attendance at the Exhibition in Prince Alfred Park is falling off. The great wild beast show will be exhibited there this week…

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The Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1877 · page 2

The attendance at the Exhibition to-day is much smaller than usual. The collection of coins recently found at Newcastle have been exhibited, and prove objects…

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The Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 April 1877 · page 2

The attendance at the Exhibition is still very fair…

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The Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1877 · page 2

The attendance at the Exhibition has decreased considerably to-day, through the windy and dusty weather…

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The Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1877 · page 2

The exhibition is still drawing visitors, but, of course, there is no comparison between the number that are going there this week and the crowds that attended there last week. It…

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The Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1877 · page 4

The Exhibition is still fairly attended A quantity of new exhibits are arriving. A skating and bicycle contest is arranged for next week…

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The Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 May 1877 · page 2

The heavy rains caused scarcely any attendance at the Exhibition. It also damaged some of the American exhibits…

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The Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 May 1877 · page 2

The attendance at the Exhibition this morning was very small, notwithstanding the fine weather. This afternoon it improved, and this evening there was a…

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Sydney Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 May 1877 · page 2

The Sydney Exhibition closes to-morrow. Some New Zealand exhibits just arrived. The attendance up till yesterday reaches a hundred and twenty-six…

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The Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 May 1877 · page 3

After Wednesday which is the closing day, the Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition of 1877 will be a thing of the past. There are no two opinions about the great success of…

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Exhibition Building

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 May 1877 · page 4

The Exhibition Building is being speedily emptied, and is in course of preparation for a ball…

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Latest Telegrams. Parliamentary. Deputation Respecting Paris Exhibition. No Trace of Captain Robson. Meyer's Case. Sudden Death of a Clergyman. The Barque Waratah. Invitation to the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon to Visit the Colony. Death of a Solicitor. No Singleton Show this Year. SYDNEY. Recd, Wednesday, 10.20 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 May 1877 · page 2

A lengthy discussion took place in the Assembly to-day on the motion to adopt the plans of the line from Wagga Wagga to Albury…

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The Baby Show at Lambton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 June 1877 · page 3

THE chief topic of interest at the present time is the grand baby exhibition promised by Barlow next Tuesday evening. I was nearly about to write Babylonian exhibition, but I was afraid that some of the…

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Baby Show at Lambton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 July 1877 · page 2

BARLOW had a pumper house on Tuesday evening and the show was a success in every sense of the ward. After Barlow had completed the second part of his performance, arrangements were made for…

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Australian Juvenile Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 August 1877 · page 2

We are in receipt of a circular letter from Mr. R. D. Bannister, hon. see of the Australian Juvenile Industrial Exhibition, to be opened at Ballarat on the 15th February next. The…

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The Queensland Exhibition. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 August 1877 · page 3

YESTERDAY and to-day the attendances have been again better than on the corresponding days of last year and, as before, everything has passed off without…

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The Paris Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 August 1877 · page 3

Work on the Palace of the Trocadero, the Paris Exhibition building, is expected to be completed by the close of October The gallery in which the French display of…

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Latest Telegrams Formation of a New Ministry Contradictory Rumours. No New Ministry Yet. Rev. Mr. Somerville at the Exhibition. Library and Museum to Be Still Closed on Sunday. Additional Judge Appointed. Sydney. Recd. Tuesday, 12.15 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 September 1877 · page 1

IT is rumoured that the New Ministry is formed as follows:— Col. Sec. and Premier ... Mr. A. Stuart Secretary for Lands ... Sir J. Robertson…

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Latest Telegrams. Latest Election News. Sir Henry Parkes returned for Canterbury. Mr. Lucas also returned. Parkes and Robertson nominated for The Bogan. Robertson nominated for Mudgee, and obtained the show of hands. SYDNEY. Received. 4.50

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 October 1877 · page 1

Sir John Robertson states privately that he will not enter the new Parliament; but unsuccessful efforts were made to get him supported as a…

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Latest Telegrams. Sir John Robertson Nominated for East Macquarie. Opening of Railway to Cootamundra. Additional Railway Plant. Horticultural Society's Flower Show. John Taylor, Chief of the Mormons. Decrease in English Revenue. Republican Party in France. SYDNEY. Wednesday, 8.12 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 November 1877 · page 1

SIR JOHN ROBERTSON will be nominated for East Macquarie to-morrow. His return considered certain. Sir John Robertson is performing the…

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