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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1887

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The German Commission at the Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 September 1887 · page 5

It is announced that upon the return of Prince Bismarck to Berlin the German Government will make formal application to His Majesty the…

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The Polytechnical Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 September 1887 · page 5

THE second Polytechnical Exhibition in connection with the technical classes at the Newcastle School of Arts was opened by the president, Mr. H. J. Brown, last evening,…

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The Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 September 1887 · page 5

The town of Middlesbrough, in Yorkshire, one of the great centres of the iron-trade industry, has applied for a special annexe at the Melbourne…

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Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 September 1887 · page 5

There is a disposition to transfer the Irish court at the Melbourne Centannial exhibition to the Manchester Court, provided that a separate Court is allowed for Ireland…

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Polytechnical Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 September 1887 · page 5

THERE was a very good attendance last evening at the School of Arts to witness the various exhibits in the large hall in connection with the technical classes. The visitors…

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Polytechnical Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 September 1887 · page 3

AMONG exhibits at the School of Arts Exhibition hitherto unmentioned, as they arrived since the opening, are some water-colour paintings of Australian birds and wild flowers,…

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Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 September 1887 · page 5

The Irish manufacturers who desire to exhibit at the Melbourne Exhibition have applied for a special annexe…

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BERLIN, Thursday. the Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 September 1887 · page 5

The Mercantile Council of Ham, burg, which represents the more influential section of the trading community, has presented a petition to…

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Cablegrams. London, Saturday. the Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 September 1887 · page 5

MR. FRANK STUART, the late chairman of the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures, is at present in England. He has visited Manchester…

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Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 October 1887 · page 5

Three hundred and thirty British exhibitors have applied for 105,000 cubic feet space at the Melbourne Exhibition…

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[Reuter's Telegram.] London, Thursday. the Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 October 1887 · page 5

Sir Graham Berry is now engaged on a tour through England with a view to securing support for the Melbourne Exhibition…

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Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 October 1887 · page 5

The Huddersfield Chamber of Commerce, after having heard the representations of Sir Graham Berry, appointed pointed a committee to arrange for a…

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Fancy Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 October 1887 · page 5

Bishop of Maitland, Dr. Murray, will, this afternoon, at 4 o'clock, open a fancy fair in the Stockton Temperance Hall, in aid of the funds of St. Peter's Church. A most…

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BERLIN, Tuesday. Germany and Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 October 1887 · page 5

Prince Bismarck has proposed to The Federal Council that in view of the great commercial interests of Germany in the Melbourne Exhibition,…

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Fancy Fair at Stockton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 October 1887 · page 5

A FANCY FAIR, the proceeds of which are to go towards paying off the existing debt on St. James and St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Stockton, was opened at 4 o'clock…

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BERLIN, Thursday. the Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 October 1887 · page 5

The Bundesrath or Federal Council has referred Prince Bismarck's proposal for the appointment of a German Commissioner to the Melbourne…

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Wild Flower Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 October 1887 · page 4

THE wild flower show to be opened this afternoon in the Hall of Science, Lake Road, on the model of those held lately in Manly, Gosford, and elsewhere, reflects great credit…

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Wild Flower Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 October 1887 · page 8

THE Wild Flower Show, which we alluded to in Saturday's issue, was opened at the Hall of Science at 6 o'clock on Saturday evening, although everything was not quite in…

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The Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 October 1887 · page 5

At a meeting of the London Committee of the Melbourne Exhibition held to-day, the president and treasurer of the Manchester Committee…

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The Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 October 1887 · page 5

The report that Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen had, at the instance of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, undertaken to represent the British exhibitors at the…

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