South Australia. Adelaide, Wednesday Night. Adelaide Baby Show
The Baby Show opened to-day in the Exhibition Building, 630 babies and 23 pairs of twins competing. The attendance was very large…
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Shows & fairs, 1889
221 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 12
Grand Opera Carnival
At the Olympic Hall the opera carnival still holds sway, and last night the attendance was again very large. The workers have fairly settled down to work, and energetically…
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THE baby show in the Elite Hall, Hunter-street West, was opened yesterday afternoon, when 134 proud mothers brought together 139 miniature specimens of humanity to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Correspondence Auld Scotty on the Liedertafel Carnival and Fancy Fair
MAISTER EDITOR,—It is one often I gang doon the toon, as ye ken; but Wednesday last I had tae gang on a wee bit o' business o' my ain connected wi' the…
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THE Olympic Hall was again crowded last evening by a fashionable assemblage, and the sale of goods was carried on by the young ladies with great vigour and tact. The…
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Over one thousand persons visited the great show of infants in the Elite Skating Rink yesterday, and excitement is running high as to which baby out of the 139 present…
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SIR,—As the fancy fair now being held at the Olympic Hall is for the Liedertafel and charities, it would be well for the promoters to say what proportion of the proceeds they…
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On Saturday afternoon and evening the attendance at the Olympic Hall was very large, and the workers energetically pushed their wares, the result being a general clearing of…
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THE baby show concluded last night alter an extraordinary amount of success, over 50,000 persons having attended during the four days. The champion prize of £100…
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THE opera carnival at the Olympic Theatre was brought to a close yesterday evening, when a promenade concert was given, and a bruce auction of the goods which remained…
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SIR,—An impression has got abroad that I had something to do with late baby-show held in the Elite Skating Rink and am responsible for the prize-money. I beg to…
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YESTERDAY afternoon at three o'clock the mothers of the prize winners at the baby show, together with their exhibits, attended at the Elite Hall to receive the awards which…
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In another column of this issue we publish a letter from Mr. E. J. Thompson, director of the recent baby show in Newcastle, explaining the delay which has occurred in paying…
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SIR,—In your issue of yesterday there appears a letter in which your correspondent coolly asks the members of the Liedertafel, on their honour, to give up the whole of the…
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SIR,—Permit me, through your columns, to offer a few explanations of what have been considered laches on my part as director of the show. Having received a telegram on…
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The programme for the next annual meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association—" The Exhibition and Intercolonial meeting," it is styled—has been issued. It is to be…
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LONDON, Sunday.—Sir Graham Berry has been appointed a Commander, and Mr. Walker, Executive Commissioner for Victoria, an Officer of the Red Eagle, M. de Casetella,…
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LONDON, Saturday.—It has been decided by the authorities that the Paris Exhibition shall remain informally open, after the official closing, until the tickets already issued…
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WITH reference to the cablegram from New Zealand, to the effect that Mr. Oscar Meyer, the Now South Wales Commissioner at the Dunedin Exhibition, had stopped work in the…
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The difference between Mr. Oscar Meyer, the New South Wales Commissioner to the Dunedin Exhibition, and the Exhibition committee arose through the refusal of M…
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