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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1906

210 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 11

The Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1906 · page 11

The main interest in the exhibition continues to be in the side-shows. The orchestra, which is going to cost the colony a good many thousand pounds,…

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The Fair Owner of £1,000,000 a Year

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1906 · page 5

Particulars of the marriage of the Krupp sisters—referred to as "The Brides of Essen"—are interesting. Fraulein Bertha Krupp was the moneyed one…

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New Zealand Exhibition. Christchurch

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 December 1906 · page 5

The total attendance at the New Zealand Exhibition to date is 420,000, the dail average being 13,300. The Fijian firewalkers sailed from Suva…

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Agricultural Society

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 December 1906 · page 5

A meeting of the committee of the Newcastle Agricultural Society was held last night. Dr. J. L. Beeston, the president, was in the chair at the early part of the…

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New Zealand Exhibition. Christchurch

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 December 1906 · page 4

The New Zealand International Exhibition continues to be well patronised. The total attendance to date is 475,000. The principal attractions were war dances,…

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Christ Church Cathedral. Bouquet Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1906 · page 5

A bouquet fair, organised by Christ Church Cathedral Women's Guild, was opened yesterday afternoon in the Parish Hall. Each stall was named after some…

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Bouquet Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 6

The fair organised by the Christ Church Cathedral Women's Guild, which opened on Wednesday, was continued yesterday evening at the parish-hall, when there…

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Cycling. Boxing Night Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 December 1906 · page 9

The second of the season's summer evening cycling carnival promoted by the Newcastle Amusement Company, when place on Wednesday evening next…

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Cycling. the Newcastle Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 December 1906 · page 3

A start will be made with the Newcastle Amusement Company's carnival at the Rugby Ground to-morrow night, and all that is required to…

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Newcastle Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 December 1906 · page 5

The Newcastle Amusement Company, Ltd., will run another cycling carnival on the Rugby Ground this evening, when no fewer than nineteen events, including…

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Cycling. the Newcastle Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 December 1906 · page 3

The cycling carnival promoted by the Newcastle Amusement Company, and which was so successfully inaugurated on Boxing Night, will be brought to a…

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