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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1888

146 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 8

The Singleton Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 August 1888 · page 3

THE annual exhibition of the Singleton Horticultural and Agricultural Society commences to-day, with excellent prospects of great success…

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The Centennial Exhibition. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 August 1888 · page 7

VERY fair progress has been made with the works in connection with the New South Wales. Court during the last few days, and visitors are…

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The Singleton Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 August 1888 · page 5

THE annual exhibition of the Northern Agricultural Association was commenced on the association's splendid show ground at Singleton yesterday, and the number of the…

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The Centennial Exhibition. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 August 1888 · page 3

THE New South Wales Court is commencing to put on an appearance of preparation, and more progress has been made during the past few days…

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[By Wire From the Sydney Papers.] London, Thursday. the Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 August 1888 · page 5

An extensive collection of British seaweed and shells are being shipped for the Melbourne Exhibition…

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Sydney Exhibition, 1879

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 August 1888 · page 2

HISTORY repeats itself. The following lines that I wrote, and which were published in the N.Z. Herald at the time, are equally applicable to the present Melbourne…

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The Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 August 1888 · page 5

The British collection of fish and shells for the Melbourne Exhibition has boon shipped. It is, however, but a poor collection…

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The Centennial Exhibition. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 August 1888 · page 6

AN unfortunate scandal has come to light in connection with the New South Wales Court. For some time past tins of preserved meats and other…

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Women's Industrial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 September 1888 · page 5

THE Newcastle Exhibition of Woman's Industries and Centenary Fair will be opened on September 20th, in the largo new brewery, Charlton-street…

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British Fisheries at the Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 September 1888 · page 5

The Government has granted £500 for the representation of British fisheries at the Melbourne Exhibition…

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The Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 September 1888 · page 4

A CABLEGRAM states that Truth, in its issue for the last week, contains an article in which it refers in caustic terms to the management of the…

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Coal at the Melbourne Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1888 · page 3

IT having boon reported to the Burwood Colliery management, in Newcastle, that "coal tar had been used to cover the cemented joints of the…

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Exhibition of Women's Industries and Centenary Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 September 1888 · page 4

FOR months past the all-absorbing topic of conversation amongst the ladies of this city has been the Exhibition of Women's Industries and Centenary Fair, which are to be…

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Exhibition of Women's Industries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 September 1888 · page 5

THE notice of our readers is invited to an advertisement in another column drawing attention to the opening of the above exhibition, at the large…

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Exhibition of Women's Industries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 September 1888 · page 4

THE above undertaking, which is of as much interest to the sterner sex as to the ladies, promises to be a very successful affair. It will be opened on Thursday next, at 3 p.m.,…

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Women's Industrial Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 September 1888 · page 4

THE Exhibition of Women's Industries and Centenary Fair, which is to be opened to-day, forms an important epoch in the history of this city and…

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Wild-flower Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 September 1888 · page 3

YESTERDAY afternoon the Wickham School of Arts presented a very gay appearance, the occasion being the opening of an exhibition of wild…

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Opening of the Newcastle Exhibition of Industries and Centenary Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 September 1888 · page 7

THE opening of the Newcastle Exhibition of Women's Industries and Centenary Fair took place yesterday afternoon, and, as was anticipated,…

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Wild Flower Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 September 1888 · page 4

THE musical portion of the programme on the opening night was undertaken by the choir of St. James Church, Wickham, and it goes…

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The Newcastle Exhibition of Women's Industries and Centenary Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 September 1888 · page 5

THE success that attended the opening of the above splendid exhibition on Thursday was continued yesterday. The building, the large new brewery off Charlton-street, Wickham,…

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