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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1881

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TELEGRAMS. Singleton Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 August 1881 · page 2

SINGLETON, Monday.—The entries for the Singleton Show are larger than any previous occasion, being 1700 in all, or about 100 in excess of last year…

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Singleton Show.—A Special Prize for Ladies

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 August 1881 · page 2

SINGLETON, Wednesday.—Mr. Haynes one of the proprietors of the Bulletin, has offered a handsome special prize, consisting of a lady's gold hunting lever watch,…

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Singleton Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 August 1881 · page 2

THE annual show of the Northern Agricultural Association will be hold on Wednesday and Thursday next at Singleton. From many sources we learn that…

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Northern Agricultural Association. Singleton Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 August 1881 · page 3

THE annual attraction of Patrick's Plains—the Northern Agricultural Association's Show—was once more celebrated at Singleton yesterday. For many years…

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Northern Agricultural Association. Singleton Show. Second Day —

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 August 1881 · page 3

THE Northern Agricultural Association yesterday commemorated the second day's addition to a long list of anniversaries of its yearly shows. On Wednesday I…

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Unique Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 August 1881 · page 2

THE "Dwarf and Giant" show now on view, adjoining Gates and Co.'s stores, Hunter-street, must be doing a business satisfactory to the proprietors, judging…

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Bathurst Grand Juvenile Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 August 1881 · page 2

WE are in receipt from the hon. secs, of the Horticultural and Musical Schedule, issued in connection with the above Exhibition. The lists attached offer the fullest…

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CABLEGRAMS International Wool Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 September 1881 · page 2

LONDON, September 1.—At the International wool show at the Crystal Palace, Mr. Pitts, of Mainstone, South Australia, has been awarded a silver medal for a…

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Closing of the Adelaide Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 September 1881 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Sunday.—The Adelaide Exhibition closed on Saturday. There was no ceremony. The attendance was very large during the day. Altogether 280,000…

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Flower Show at West Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 October 1881 · page 2

WEST MAITLAND, Monday—The Flower Show, under the auspices of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association, takes place on Thursday…

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Maitland Flower Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 October 1881 · page 2

THE annual Flower Show at West Maitland is announced to be held to-day. We have already pointed out that the entries are far more numerous than on any…

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Wild Flower Show at Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 October 1881 · page 2

OUR Wallsend friends are not slow to take a hint, and having seen the splendid results from the wild flower show at Manly, are about to be second in the…

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Wild Flower Show at Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 October 1881 · page 2

IN our advertising columns will be found the programme of the proposed exhibition at Wallsend. It will be most desirable that this should be as perfect as possible,…

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Proposed Exhibition at Boston

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 October 1881 · page 2

LONDON, Oct. 17.—A movement has been set on foot at Boston for the holding of an International Exhibition in that city…

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Wallsend Wild Flower Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 October 1881 · page 5

WE would again draw attention to the Wallsend Wild Flower Show, to be held next Friday and Saturday. The committee would be thankful for a loan of…

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The Flower Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 October 1881 · page 2

WE are requested by the secretaries to state that a few powder barrels may be had at the School of Arts, Willsend, for tree ferns or other bush-rooted plants, and…

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LOCAL & GENERAL. Wallsend Flower Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 October 1881 · page 2

WE are requested, for the last time, to call the attention of artist ladies and gentlemen to the desirability of making as many wreaths, mottos, and…

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Waxworks Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 November 1881 · page 5

AN attractive collection, the "Great Warworks Exhibition," is announced in ear advertising columns to be exhibited at the Commercial Exchange,…

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Waxworks Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 November 1881 · page 3

A UNIQUE exhibition of wax modeling in lifesize figures is now on view in Hunter-street, opposite Riley Brothers. It is fully worth a visit, by adults as well as…

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LOCAL & GENERAL. Waxworks Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 November 1881 · page 5

THE interesting waxworks collection in Hunter-street still continues to draw large crowds both during the day and evening. The exhibition is more than worth the…

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