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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1891

176 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 9

The Athletic Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1891 · page 5

MRS. SIMS' benefit committee held another meeting at the Harbour View Hotel last night, Mr. Glover presiding. The secretary, Mr. T. Dover, read a wire received from Mr…

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Singleton Show. Singleton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 August 1891 · page 5

THE Singleton Show next week will far exceed in magnitude any previous one held here, there being no less than 800 persons or firms showing 3200 exhibits, being an…

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The Singleton Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 August 1891 · page 5

THE show which opens at Singleton to-day promises to be the most successful ever held in the town. The entries exceed those of last year by over 700, and the exhibits in the…

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The Singleton Show. a Beautiful First Day. with the Exhibits and Awards. Big Attendance Expected To-day. SINGLETON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 August 1891 · page 6

THE twenty-third annual show of the Northern Agricultural Association commenced to-day, on the society's grounds, Singleton. The weather was…

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Sculling. a Fair Offer. LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 August 1891 · page 3

With reference to the challenge thrown out by Edward Hanlan and William O'Connor to row any two men in the world for the double-sculling championship, they have…

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The Singleton Show. Second Day. Singleton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 August 1891 · page 6

THE twenty-third annual show of the Northern Agricultural Association was well patronised to-day, there being visitors present from all parts of the…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Wednesday. Successful Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 August 1891 · page 5

In the absence of the Governor, Sir Arthur Palmer opened the National Association's sixteenth annual exhibition to-day, in the presence of 25,000 people. The…

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Fair American

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 August 1891 · page 11

THERE was (says the London Sunday Sun) a very pretty exchange of compliments at a dinner party the other night between Sir Edwin Arnold and…

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Minmi. Annual Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 August 1891 · page 5

The members of the Minmi Agricultural, Poultry, Pigeon, and Fine Arts Society have chosen the 18th and 19th September as the days upon which they will hold their third…

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Parliamentary Fair Play

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 August 1891 · page 4

ENGLISHMEN generally are believers in fair play, although frequently they would be quite unable to define the bounds which divide it from the…

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Wirth Bros.' Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 August 1891 · page 5

This evening at Honeysuckle Point, Messrs, Wirth Bros'. show opens for a four nights' season. The show augers to be one of the best yet seen in this district…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Chicago Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 August 1891 · page 5

THE Government has done nothing definite yet with regard to the appointment of the commission to arrange for the representation of the colony at the Chicago Exhibition…

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Parliament. Tuesday, September 8. Legislative Assembly. Divorce Amendment Bill. Lurkett's Release. Chicago Exhibition. Electoral Reform. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 September 1891 · page 5

AFTER our report of the proceedings in the Assembly on Tuesday night concluded, the discussion on the second reading of Mr. Neild's Divorce Amendment and Extension…

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Gosford Wild Flower Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 September 1891 · page 5

THE annual wild flower show in aid of the Gesford School of Arte was opened yesterday afternoon, when there was a fair attendance present. The weather, although slightly…

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District News. Wallsend. Agricultural Society's Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 September 1891 · page 7

THE committee of the Wallsend and Platte-burg Agricultural Society are making active preparations for their seventh annual show, which is to take place on October 29th,…

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Waratah Flower Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 September 1891 · page 7

The committee of the School of Arts, ever at work with a view to promoting the welfare of the residents of this rising suburb, intend holding a flower show in the Crystal…

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Tasmania. Hobart, Monday. the Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 September 1891 · page 7

Mr. Mills, manager of the Union Steamship Company, has, in consultation with the directors of the Tasmanian Exhibition, decided to make…

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District News. Wallsend. Flower Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 September 1891 · page 6

OUR Church of England friends purpose opening their Wild Flower Show in the large hall of the Agricultural Society on Thursday first, and…

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Cake and Apron Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 September 1891 · page 8

A GRAND Cake and Apron Fair will be held in St. James's School, Wickham, this evening. His Worship the Mayor (Alderman G. T. Edwards) will preside, and the…

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St. James's Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 September 1891 · page 5

A GRAND cake and apron fair, in aid of St. James's Church and School Fund, was opened in St, James's Schoolroom, Wickham, at half-past 7 o'clock last evening, and the…

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