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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1886

169 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 9

The Indian Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 January 1886 · page 3

Exhibits are now being received for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, which is to be opened in May next year…

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Cablegrams. London, Wednesday. The Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 January 1886 · page 3

The Queen has consented to be patroness to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition…

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Indo-Colonial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 January 1886 · page 3

Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen, secretary of the "Colonial and Indian Exhibition Commission, has complained to the Prince of Wales in reference to the neglect of New South…

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Exhibition Commissioners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1886 · page 5

The following are, I hear, to be gazetted as commissioners (London) for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition:—Messrs. R. B. Smith, M.L.A., John Pope, J. Watson,…

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The Honeysuckle Point Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1886 · page 4

THE Honeysuckle Point carnival held a meeting last night in the Brigade station. There was a good muster, and Mr. J. Munns occupied the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and…

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Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1886 · page 5

An exhibition of paintings, by Australian and New Zealand artists, is about to be opened in London…

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Indian Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1886 · page 3

Mr. George Collins Levey has assumed the management of the New South Wales Court at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition…

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Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1886 · page 3

Sir Alex[?] Stuart had a long interview to-day [?]the Premier on the subject of the India [?] Colonial Exhibition…

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Indo-Colonial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 February 1886 · page 3

Mr. James Thomson, secretary to the Victorian Commission of the Indo-Colonial exhibition, has arrived in London…

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The Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 February 1886 · page 5

The Corporation of the City of London have passed a resolution undertaking, to guarantee a sum of £10,000 towards the expenses of the forthcoming Exhibition…

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The Indian-Colonial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 February 1886 · page 5

The corporation of London has granted £10,000 towards the Indian-Colonial Exhibition…

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Colonial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 March 1886 · page 3

Victoria has been promised 4000 feet space of the Tasmanian court…

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The London Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1886 · page 5

OVER 400 tons of exhibits have been sent from Sydney to the Colonial Exhibition in London…

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Indo-Colonial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 March 1886 · page 5

Messrs Peter B. Burgoyne and Co., of the Fairfield Vineyard, South Australia, and wine merchants of Old Broad-street, London, who, some months ago,…

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Fryer's Circus. An Astounding Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1886 · page 5

MESSRS. R. W. Fryer and Co.'s "Circus, Equine, Paradox, and Trained Animal Exhibition"—to quote the bill—opened here last night to large house. The show is in…

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Victoria Theatre. Vanity Fair Variety Co

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1886 · page 5

IN another column the programme is published of an entertainment to be given in the "Vic." by the Vanity Fair Variety Company on Saturday, Monday, and…

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Indian and Colonial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1886 · page 2

ALL the courts at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition are being rapidly prepared for the reception of exhibits. The New Zealand Court is the most…

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Victoria Theatre. Vanity Fair Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 4

TO-NIGHT the boards at the "Vic." will be occupied by the members of this company, who play up to their full numerical strength in Newcastle. The metropolitan press…

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The Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 March 1886 · page 5

It is officially announced that the Queen will open the exhibition on May 4…

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The Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 April 1886 · page 5

The Prince of Wales has been appointed a member of the committee to receive colonial visitors to the Exhibition…

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