Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Shows & fairs, all years

Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1888

146 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 8

The Paris Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1888 · page 5

The Government of the United States has decided that America shall be represented at the Paris International Exhibition…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

New Zealand and the Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 March 1888 · page 5

Many New Zealand exhibits, which were displayed at the late Colonial and Indian, Exhibition, and which, since the closing, of the Exhibition,…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1888 · page 5

M. Bergen, the French Commissioner for the Melbourne Exhibition, has persuaded 243 French exhibitors to apply for 64,000ft. of space at the…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1888 · page 5

The French Government are to forward to Melbourne five exhibits of Gobelin tapestry work and Sevres China for the Centenary Universal…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. an Exhibition Opened

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1888 · page 5

THE exhibition at the Prince Alfred Park was opened, by the Governor to-day. Six bishops offered up prayer. M. Leon Caron's centenary cantata…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1888 · page 5

The Duke of Westminster will send twenty-one fine pictures to the Melbourne Exhibition…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Woodroffe's Glass-blowing Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1888 · page 5

THE popularity of this exhibition, which illustrates so well the pretty art of glassmaking, was fully evidenced last night by the crowded attendance at the Lyceum Hall,…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Giving the Public Fair Notice

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 6

A TEXAS journalist, who had been summer-fallowing himself on a stock ranch for a couple of years, suddenly assumed control of a rural weekly, and…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Firemen's Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1888 · page 5

Sir Daniel Cooper, Acting Agent-General for New South Wales, has been interviewed by some members of the London fire brigades in reference…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1888 · page 5

The committee appointed to carry out the arrangements in connection with the proposed special Lancaster annexe at the Melbourne Exhibition,…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 5

Councillor Wermuth, the special German Commissioner to the Melbourne Exhibition, sails for Melbourne to-morrow…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 5

Herr Wermuth, the German Commissioner to the Melbourne Exhibition, will sail on the 2nd April…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Canada at the Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 5

Canada will make a grand display of agricultural machinery at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 5

Her Majesty the Queen has announced her intention of sending out to the Melbourne Exhibition the oil paintings depicting the marriage…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Jack and Bess. Chapter Xv. Horn Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 April 1888 · page 2

THIS conversation happened in the second week of October. The opportunity of repaying the shilling occurred on the 18th of that month, which is…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

West Maitland Annual Show. West Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 April 1888 · page 5

THE entries for competition in connection with the forthcoming annual exhibition under the auspices of the Hunter river Agricultural…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Hunter River Agricultural Society's Exhibition. West Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1888 · page 5

THE twenty-eighth annual exhibition of the Hunter River Agricultural Society, to open at Maitland on the 25th April and the two following…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 5

Five hundred intending exhibitors of machinery at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition are clamouring for the immediate allotment of space…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Late Adelaide Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 5

Exhibitors at the late Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition are constantly making application for the medals awarded them, which have not yet been…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

H.r.a. & H. Association's Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 April 1888 · page 6

OUR readers would do well to note, by advertisement in another column, that the twenty-eighth show, under the auspices of the Maitland Society, will…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →