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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1878

57 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 3

No Fruit, Flower, and Vegetable Show this Year

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 January 1878 · page 2

AT a meeting of the committee of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association, held on Monday afternoon, it was decided to allow the Fruit,…

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Australian Juvenile Industrial Exhibition, Ballarat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1878 · page 2

WE notice by advertisement in another column that all packages intended for competition at the above exhibition, will be received at all stations up to and on…

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TELEGRAMS. Cable Restored. Paris Exhibition Commission. A Man Killed in a Circus. New Railway Rules. Prize Fight at Bondi. The Torpedo Corps

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 February 1878 · page 2

The cable has been restored. The Paris Exhibition Commission for ward third shipment of exhibits, this month…

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Collapse of a Baby Show. Disappearance of Its Managers and Wails of Indignant Exhibitors. Baltimore, Dec 15, 1877

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 3

THE second attempt to conduct a baby show in Baltimore ended disastrously to day. The first exhibition received very little support, but the second, which opened at M[?]scnic…

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Australian International Exhibition, 1879

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 February 1878 · page 2

A SUPPLEMENT to the Gazelle, dated February 7, contains a schedule, of the prizes to be competed for at an Australian International Exhibition, to be held in Sydney, in August 1879,…

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Ballarat Juvenile Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 February 1878 · page 2

THE Age states that file long talked of Ballarat Juvenile Exhibition was opened with great ceremony by His Excellency the Governor in the presence of a crowded audience. There were…

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Disgraceful Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 March 1878 · page 4

ABOUT 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the passengers in the numerous vehicles running between Newcastle and Hamilton, were greatly surprised at seeing two men taking pedestrian…

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The Exhibition Supplement to the "Sydney Morning Herald."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1878 · page 2

WE have perused with pleasure this admirably compiled statement, which, printed in both English and French, is to be distributed to visitors at the great word's show at Paris. It was issued…

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The Forthcoming Maitland Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 March 1878 · page 2

THE prospects of the forthcoming show at Maitland are very encouraging. We hear that the entries for cattle and blood stock are very much larger than usual, and the quality superior; and…

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Telegrams. Sydney. Estimates-in-Chief Passed. Stock for the Approaching Exhibition. Immigrants Relieved from Quarantine. The Hyde Park Rioters. End of the Victorian Crisis. Recd. Friday, 7.45 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 March 1878 · page 4

All the Estimates-in-chief were passed, and no reduction made, in the Legislative Assembly last night. Large numbers of thorough-bred stock…

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The Maitland Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 April 1878 · page 2

On Wednesday next the Hunter River Agricultural Horticultural Association's Show will be opened at West Maitland. If the weather should prove favourable the show will be a great…

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The West Maitland Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 April 1878 · page 2

MATTLAND'S annual fair, the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association's 8lsow, opened on the Albion Ground, West Maitland, yesterday. The attendance of visitors was…

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TELEGRAMS. The Forthcoming Exhibition. Garrotting on [?]yde Park. Price of Coal Supplied to Government from Ferndale Colliery. Stockton and Raymond Terrace Road. The Volunteer Question. Singleton Refreshment Room. Electoral Bill. SYDNEY. Reed. Wednesday, 3 30. p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 April 1878 · page 2

THE number of electors in the colony is 170,317, giving 1738 votes to each member in the proposed new Electoral Bill. At the Metropolitan Quarter Sessions,…

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Exhibition of Oil Paintings

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 4

DURING the past week a number of really handsome oil paintings have been on view in the premises opposite Wood, Bros, & Co.'s warehouse. The scenes depicted comprise some of…

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The Maitland Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 4

ONCE a year our neighbours in and around Maitland exhibit their pastoral and agricultural riches, and attract to the town large numbers of people who…

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TELEGRAMS. The Garrison for Newcastle Leave Sydney on Wednesday. The Forthcoming Exhibition. Chancellorship of the University. Death of Judge Fellows. Wrecks and Loss of Life. The Ship Matterhorn and Barque Carleton Lost. The Captain and Fifteen of the Crew Drowned. Four Men Lost in the Attempt to Save Life. SYDNEY. Recd. Monday, 5.26 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 April 1878 · page 2

To-day, Colonel Scratchley minutely inspected the batteries for the defence of Port Jackson, and an order to remedy the defects noticed by Sir William Jervois…

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The Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 April 1878 · page 2

THE exhibition which opens in the buildings on Prince Alfred Park on Tuesday next, 23rd inst., promises to be even more successful than any previous show; and it is probable that the…

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Stock for the Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 April 1878 · page 2

STOCK is already being shipped for the forthcoming exhibition at Sydney. The Coonanbara took some magnificent blood stock on Thursday last; and on Saturday night the Maitland had…

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The Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1878 · page 2

The Exhibition was opened at noon, to day, with great eclat. In the absence of the Governor, the Hon John Hay, President of the Legislative Council, officiated,…

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The Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 May 1878 · page 2

THE annual cattle show and fancy bazaar is again over and gone. It has provoked little comment this year, partly because nearly all the exhibits…

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