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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1883

63 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 4

CABLEGRAMS. The Amsterdam Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1883 · page 4

LONDON, May 1.—The Amsterdam International Exhibition, although, as a whole, far from ready, was opened to-day with the ceremony usual on such occasions. Their…

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Fair Play to Native Industries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 May 1883 · page 3

A PUBLIC meeting was held in Sydney on Saturday evening, May 5th, to take into consideration the action of the Assembly with regard to Mr. Sydney Smith's…

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Fair Play to Native Industries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 May 1883 · page 4

A PUBLIC meeting was held in Sydney on Saturday evening, May 5th, to take into consideration the action of the Assembly with regard to Mr. Sydney Smith's…

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Opening of the International Fisheries Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1883 · page 2

LONDON, May 13.—The above Exhibition was opened yesterday, in the presence of all the members of the Royal Family at present in England. It was a brilliant…

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The Amsterdam Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 May 1883 · page 2

LONDON, May 18.—The Amsterdam Exhibition is still incomplete, and the attendance is declining…

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Muswellbrook Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 May 1883 · page 2

YESTERDAY the seventh annual show, under the auspices of the Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association, took place at Muswellbrook. Notwithstanding the…

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The Amsterdam Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 July 1883 · page 2

LONDON, June 29,—Owing to the defective construction ,of that portion of the Amsterdam, Exhibition building in the vicinity of the Victorian Court, the…

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Deputations.—The Singleton Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—A deputation waited on the Minister for Works to-day, from Singleton, asking for a penny per mile return fares on the forthcoming show days,…

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Intercolonial Juvenile Industrial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1883 · page 3

AT a meeting of the inhabitants of Parramatta, held recently, it was resolved to hold an Intercolonial Juvenile Industrial Exhibition in that town, towards the close of this…

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Lover of Fair Play and the Trade Defence Association. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 August 1883 · page 2

SIR,—I do not wish to enter into a newspaper war with your effulgent correspondent, nor would I trespass upon your space now but for my name having been brought so prominently before the public in…

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The Coming Singleton Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 August 1883 · page 2

SINGLETON, Saturday.—The entries for the ensuing Singleton Show, to be held on 15th and 19th instant, form the largest number ever received since the formation…

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Singleton Show. First Day.—wednesday

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 August 1883 · page 3

THERE was a sound of revelry (by day) yesterday, at Singleton, for the fifteenth time annually; and Patrick's Plains Capital once more called forth its beauty and its…

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A Fair Chance to Spend £40

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1883 · page 2

THE bathing season is once again round, and Newcastle, after her six months' hibernation is just yawning and rubbing her eyes to realize the fact that she is as…

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Proposed International Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 September 1883 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday.—It is proposed to hold an International Exhibition at the Crystal Palace next April, under the management of Mr. G. C. Levey, Executive Commissioner for…

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The Intercolonial Juvenile Industrial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 September 1883 · page 2

MR. STAPLETON, of Parramatta, agent for the Inter-colonial Juvenile Industrial Exhibition, to be held in the Parramatta Park, is now in Newcastle arranging for the formation of a local committee. He has…

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Industrial Exhibition at Parramatta

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 September 1883 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Government have promised an additional £500 in aid of the Parramatta Intercolonial Industrial Juvenile Exhibition, which sum will be…

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Exhibition of Insects in Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 September 1883 · page 7

THIS curious and novel exhibition at the Palais de [?]Industrie, in Paris, opened on the 1st of July, and was visited by a good many people. It may be worth while…

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Wallsend Flower Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 October 1883 · page 2

IT will be noticed by the advertisement in our Saturday issue that the Wallsend Flower Show will be opened on to-morrow week. The prizes are all…

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Colonial Awards at the Fisheries Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 October 1883 · page 2

LONDON, Monday.—The International Fisheries Commission have awarded the gold and silver medals won by exhibitors at the Exposition; Mr. Ramsay, Curator of…

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CABLEGRAMS Fisheries Exhibition Awards

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 October 1883 · page 2

LONDON, Monday.—Gold and silver medals have been awarded at the International Fisheries Exhibition to the New South Wales Government, Mr. Ramsay…

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