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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1879

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Metropolitan Exhibition. Monday, April 21St, 1870

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 April 1879 · page 3

THE Exhibition opened this day, at noon, when members and holders of invitation tickets were admitted. The judges also were admitted, as a matter…

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Preparations for the International Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 April 1879 · page 4

WITH that characteristic apathy which has pre-eminently distinguished the inhabitants of the "second city of the colony,' Newcastle bids fair to be about…

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Strike at the Exhibition. 460 Men Refuse Work. Dead Set on the Exhibition. the Strikers Checkmated. Police Protection Demanded and Given

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 April 1879 · page 8

We have to report a serious strike at the Exhibition, but it is satisfactory to know that the same article which records the nefarions project announces…

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Cost of the Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1879 · page 2

SIR HENRY PARKES said in the House on Thursday, in reply to Mr. Greenwood, for Mr. Buchanan, that the cost of the Exhibition building up to the present time was £85,000…

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International Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 May 1879 · page 4

We have much pleasure in directing attention to an advertisement in another column, in reference to a proper representation of the Northern districts at the forthcoming…

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The Exhibition Reviewer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 June 1879 · page 2

MR. W. B. Campbell has given another evidence of his enterprising spirit and business foresight, by publishing a pamphlet having the above title. It contains a great deal of…

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Sydney International Exhibition. Sydney, 7 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1879 · page 4

A telegram has been received asking for the reservation of 4000 feet of space for Japan, and stating that a Commissioner had been appointed, and would shortly be on his…

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The Forthcoming Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 June 1879 · page 2

THE usual weekly meeting of the International Exhibition Commission was held on Friday, at the offices, Mecquarie-street, his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor…

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Sydney International Exhibition. [Through Greville's Telegram Company.]

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 June 1879 · page 3

Very large number of exhibits from Austria via Trieste are arriving per P. and O. Company's mail steamer Avoca, consisting of wine, beer, pictures, statues, hardware,…

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Sydney International Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1879 · page 4

Exhibits are arriving in large numbers, and are being stored in finished portions of the buildings, and Mort's south-east portion of the basement is to be converted into a…

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The Singleton Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 July 1879 · page 2

A DEPUTATION, consisting of Messrs. W. C. Browne, M.P. (Patrick's Plains), A. Bowman (Hawkesbury), J. M'Elhone (Upper Hunter), and H. Badgery (East Maitland),…

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Sydney International Exhibition. [Through Greville's Telegram Co.] Sydney, Friday, 6.45 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 July 1879 · page 4

The building is progressing satisfactorily. Interior decorations on ground floor nearly completed. The machinery hall will be finished on the 1st September; the…

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Sydney Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 July 1879 · page 2

WE learn that Messrs. R. Hornsby and Sons, the eminent agricultural engineers and machinists, of Grantham, England, have sent out a fine collection of their special…

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[From Greville's Telegram Company.] Tuesday, 6.15 p.m. The International Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 July 1879 · page 2

THE International Exhibition Building is rapidly approaching completion, and the large dome will be finished in a few days. Extraordinary progress is being made in the…

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Local and General The International Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 August 1879 · page 2

THE Exhibition will in all probability be opened on Wednesday, the 17th September next…

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Woodroffo's Glass blowing Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 August 1879 · page 2

BY our advertising columns it will be seen that this highly interesting exhibition opens for a short season in Newcastle this (Wednesday) evening, in the Protestant Hall…

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Woodroffe's Glass blowing Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 August 1879 · page 2

AT the Protestant Hall, last evening, this very interesting exhibition was presented, but the attendance, owing to the bad state of the weather, was very small. The exhibition…

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International Exhibition. 7.1 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 August 1879 · page 4

At a meeting of the Commissioners, held this afternoon, the date of opening the Exhibition was fixed for Wednesday, September 17th…

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Opening of the International Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 August 1879 · page 2

THE official announcement that the International Exhibition in Sydney will be opened on Wednesday, the 17tlh proximo, suggests the inquiry as to…

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The Opening Day of the Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 August 1879 · page 2

AT the meeting of the Sydney International Exhibition Commission held on Friday, and presided over by his Excellency Lord Augustus Loftus, a resolution was…

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