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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1885

95 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 5

The Colonial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 October 1885 · page 2

The Cornish people desire a collection of exhibits of mining machinery at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition…

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Fair Play to Mind and Body

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 October 1885 · page 2

"AOTA POPULI'' in last week's Freeman's Journal, thus discourses upon the Eight-Hour Movement: Touching the matter of…

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The Jubilee Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 October 1885 · page 3

At a meeting of the proposed Jubilee Exhibition Committee, on Friday afternoon, the chairman announced, the receipt of the guarantee bond on Thursday, since when he had…

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Colonial and Indian Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 October 1885 · page 3

At the Clonial and Indian Exhibition [?]enage a sixpenny dinner will be given composed exclusively of colonial produces…

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The Forthcoming Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 October 1885 · page 5

The space reserved for a Tasmanian court, it is thought, will not be used. It has been proposed to be partly utilised for the purpose of establishing a bar for the…

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Sports at the Exhibition Building

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 October 1885 · page 8

SYDNEY, Monday.—The sports held at the Exhibition Building on Saturday were a great success. In the Champion 50 Miles Walking Match of £25, £10, and £5, W. J…

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The Colonial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 October 1885 · page 3

Victoria will not receive any portion of the space reserved for the Tasmanian court for the Colonial Exhibition…

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CORRESPONDENCE. Wallsend H., P., P., and C. Show. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 October 1885 · page 6

SIR,—In looking over a list of special prizes given at the Wallsend Horticultural Pigeon, Poultry, and Canary Society I notice a trophy, valued at two guineas, given by…

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Wallsend and Plattsburg Horticultural, Poultry, Pigeon, and Canary Society's Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 November 1885 · page 4

AN event of much interest to the inhabitants of Wallsend, Plattsburg, and the surrounding district took place yesterday, when the first exhibition of the society was…

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Indo-Colonial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 November 1885 · page 3

At a banquet given in his honour last night, Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen declared that the valuable assistance rendered by the Agents-General of the various…

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LONDON, Sunday. Indo-Colonial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 November 1885 · page 5

Sir P. Cunhffe Owen, the Executive Commissioner of the late Inventions Exhibition, has been presented with 4000 guineas by the exhibitors…

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Lannceston Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 November 1885 · page 5

It is doubtful whether the Launceston Exhibition will be held, as the sum of £5000 voted by Parliament must be applied to the erection of a museum…

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South Australia. Adelaide, Wednesday. The Colonial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 November 1885 · page 5

Sir Samuel Davenport, the representative of the colony at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, will leave for London during February…

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The Colonial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 November 1885 · page 3

All the exhibits at the Colonial Exhibition, made in England from colonial produce will be excluded…

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The Lord Mayor's Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 December 1885 · page 2

THIS year the Mayor's Show was not quite so ambitious a scale as that of 1884, when Lord Mayor Nottage entered upon office; though this year's…

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