Railway Deputation. A Fair Day's Wage for a Fair Day's Work. SYDNEY
A DEPUTATION waited upon the Minister for Works from the Railway and Tramway Association. The members stated that the great complaint the…
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Shows & fairs, 1888
146 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 8
Bazaar and Fancy Fair at Maitland
UNDER auspices of an exceptionally favourable character the grand bazaar and fancy fair in aid of the Deaf and Dumb Institute, Waratah, was opened on Thursday afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Correspondence Fair Play Wanted. to the Editor
SIR,—Knowing you love fair play, I crave a small space, in your valuable paper to show the civic fathers and citizens the unfair manner in which a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Melbourne Centennial Exhibition
SINCE it has been definitely fixed that the above great show is to open on the 1st proximo, the attention of the whole of the Australian colonies has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. N.S.W. Agricultural Society
SIR H. PARKES informed a deputation that he would do all he could to assist the Agricultural Society of New South Wales in getting absolute…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Waratah Horticultural Society's Show
THE first exhibition to be held under the auspices of the Waratah Horticultural Society promises to be a brilliant success. The dates fixed are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Select Poetry. Vanity Fair
THROUGH Vanity Fair, in days of old, There passed a maiden with locks of gold, And a pedlar opened his tempting pack, Crying: "O my pretty lass! what do you…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Fair Trade Movement
At the annual meeting of the Cobden Club, Mr. James Picton, M.P., referred to the fair trade movement, and expressed the opinion that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Paris Exhibition of 1889
AMONG the attractions planned for the forthcoming Exhibition is a singular geological museum, to be constructed in the subterraneous galleries of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Melbourne Exhibition
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will probably grant an additional vote to the London Commission of the Melbourne Exhibition…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Newcastle Poultry Show
THE fourth exhibition of the Newcastle Poultry, Pigeon, and Canary Society was continued in the Excelsior Hall, Wolfe-street, yesterday, and will be continued until…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Victoria. Melbourne, Saturday. the Exhibition
Immense numbers are arriving from all parts of Australasia, in order to be present at the opening of the Exhibition. In consequence of the danger…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Opening of the Melbourne Exhibition. MELBOURNE
A WONDERFUL transformation has been made in the interior of the Exhibition Building. The exhibitors were working during the whole of last night in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Opening of the Centennial Exhibition at Melbourne. Melbourne, Wednesday. the Procession
THE excitement in connection with the opening of the most important and most representative International Exhibition ever held in the Southern Hemisphere has reached a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Centennial-exhibition Contrasts
AMONGST the many striking characteristics of the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, none perhaps is more deserving of notice than the contrast…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Centennial Exhibition. Melbourne, Wednesday. New South Wales Court
THE Court which represents your colony at our Exhibition has been allotted one of the best positions in the building, being, in fact, the space…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Singleton Show. SINGLETON
THE entries for the Singleton Show, to be held on the 22nd and 23rd inst., are the largest ever known, there being 2300 exhibits entered, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Centennial Exhibition. Melbourne, Monday. New South Wales Court
AMONG the most prominent exhibits in the New South Wales Court, in addition to those which I mentioned in my last letter, is a graceful pavilion…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Singleton Show. SINGLETON
ALL arrangements in connection with the approaching Singleton Show are in a forward state. The railway department, at the last moment, have…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Melbourne Exhibition and the N.s.w. Centennial Park
TALKING of the Victorian Centennial (says "Flaneur" in the Freeman's Journal) reminds me that all we have to show just now for our senseless…
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