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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs
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THE SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30 p.m., and announced that he had received a letter from Mr. J. M. Toohey resigning his scat for South Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Adamstown Agricultural and Horticultural Society hold their second show about the latter end of April. The schedule of prizes has been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Benjamin Aaron, one of the proprietors of the baby show, was examined at the court as to his means to pay a debt. He deposed that he had assigned his interest in the show; but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A DEPUTATION waited upon Sir George Dibbs to ask that the Royal Agricultural Society be granted by the Government a short lease of the grounds in Moore Park. It was held that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At a meeting of the Clarence River Agricultural Society at Grafton this morning, it was unanimously decided, in consequence of the floods in the district and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The several committees are still working energetically in their efforts to make the Mechanics' Institute Industrial Exhibition a thorough success as far as they are concerned,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →resulted from last week's sitting of the Legislative Assembly, and all concerned have reason to be satisfied. There has been one significant…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ALTHOUGH the entries for this exhibition are very large, the committee, having under consideration the interruption to postal and railway facilities during the past week, have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Scott, M.P., wired to Mr. T. Dover last night stating that the Railway Commissioners had been pleased to grant half-fare railway passes to the metropolitan swimmers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Mechanical and Industrial Exhibition, in connection with the Hamilton Mechanics, Institute, opens this afternoon, at 3 o'clock. The committee were engaged up to a late…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A MEETING of the administrative committee of the Chicago Exhibition was held this afternoon in the offices of the Commission, when a statement of the accounts was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting was held at the Harbour View Hotel last night for the purpose of arranging preliminaries in connection with the proposed swimming carvival to be held in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Hamilton Industrial Exhibition was formally opened last evening by Mr. J. J. Callaghan. There was a fair attendance, and the event passed off most successfully…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Hamilton Industrial Exhibition was formally opened on Thursday evening in the presence of a fair assemblage of visitors. At 7.30 the president of the institute, Mr. J. J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another enjoyable social evening was held in the Islington Mechanic[?]' Institute on Wednesday evening. The hall was comfortably filled, and dancing was indulged in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DESPITE all contrary influences the attendance at the above each evening since the opening has been such as to satisfy the committee. On Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THERE was a very fair attendance at the Hamilton Exhibition last night. In addition to the many other attractions previously described, Mr. H. J. Brown exhibited a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The adjourned meeting of the Swimming Carnival Committee was held at the Harbour View Hotel last evening. A lot of business was transacted, including the reading of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30 p.m. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. SEE, in reply to Mr. RAE, said he would lay upon the table a return showing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT a meeting of the committee of the Hunter River Agricultural Association, it was resolved, in consequence of the recent calamitous flood, to abandon the contemplated show…
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