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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1880

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Correspondence Fair Play. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 March 1880 · page 5

SIR,—Allow me to enquire through your colums, as to how the farce that was enacted in the Police Court on Tuesday the 9th instant is calculated to effect the…

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The Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 March 1880 · page 2

The British Commissioners have decided to leave the representation of Great Britain at the International Exhibition at Melbourne entirely in the hands…

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France at the Melbourne International Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1880 · page 2

The French Government have voted 55 thousand francs for its representation at the Melbourne International Exhibition…

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Agricultural Society

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1880 · page 2

A deputation from the Agricultural Society waited upon the Corporation today, to ask for a grant of eighty acres at Randwick, for the purpose of holding…

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The Old Exhibition Building

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1880 · page 2

The Corporation are having plans prepared for turning the old Exhibition Building into a meat, butter, and fruit market…

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Great Britain and the Melbourne Exhibition. LONDON, March 25

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1880 · page 2

But for the premature action of the Melbourne Commission for the British Court at the Melbourne International Exhibition, a further grant would have…

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Closing of the Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 April 1880 · page 2

IN order to close in a fitting manner the International Exhibition, it has been duly proclaimed in the Government Gazette that Tuesday next shall be a public…

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Closing of the International Exhibition. Sydney, Tuesday, 6.15 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 April 1880 · page 2

THE Exhibition was closed to-day. The attendance was very large, especially in the afternoon. His Excellency the Governor arrived shortly after 11 o'clock…

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Closing of the International Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 April 1880 · page 2

THE International Exhibition of New South Wales was opened amidst fears and hopes, and great were the regrets at its closing. The ceremony was performed…

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Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association. Annual Show at Maitland. First Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 April 1880 · page 2

THE Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association yesterday opened its twentieth annual Show on the Association's Grounds, West Maitland. In…

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Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association. Annual Show at Maitland. Second Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 April 1880 · page 3

DESPITE the fact of the weather yesterday morning bidding lair to militate towards the gathering of anything like a large number, the fates proved kindly…

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Show at Burrawang

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 April 1880 · page 4

THE first Berrima District Show was held here on Wednesday. Notwithstanding the inclement state of the weather and the almost impassable state of the roads,…

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Disgusting Exhibition. a So-called "Exposure" of Masonry the Cause of Riotous Proceedings in a Church — Police Interference to Restore Order

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 April 1880 · page 2

One of the most disgraceful exhibitions ever witnessed in a church in a city was given in the Chamber Street Presbyterian Church Boston, Mass, on Feb. 5, 1880,…

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The British Court at the Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 2

The Right Hon. Hugh Childers has renewed is pressure for the appointment of a Royal Commission to take charge of the British Court at the Melbourne…

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The Queen and the Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 April 1880 · page 2

The following interchange of direct messages, between Lord Augustus Loftus and her Majesty the Queen, cannot be other than gratifying to the people of New…

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The Late Maitland Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 April 1880 · page 2

AT a subsequent committee meeting, according to the Mercury's report, the chairman took occasion, after the reading of the correspondence to congratulate the…

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Exhibition of Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 May 1880 · page 2

As notified in another column, the work done by the pupils attending the Misses Cooper's school, Railway-street, will be on view to-morrow and on Wednesday…

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The Great Novelty Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 May 1880 · page 2

THE above is still drawing a large concourse of people at the shop lately occupied by Mr. A. Israel, in Hunter-street. The show consists of the armless lady (Miss A. L…

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The Novelty Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 May 1880 · page 2

MISS ANN E. LEAKE THOMSON [?] novelty performance in the p[?] adjacent to Mr. Arren's war, [?] Hunter-street, Newcastle, daily, an[?]…

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A Novel Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 May 1880 · page 2

THERE is being exhibited daily, in Hunter-street, in this city, what may truly be termed a "novel exhibition." The show is the property of a lady without arms,…

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