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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1889

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The Exhibition of 1889

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 3

The works in the Champ-de-Mars are progressing rapidly, and all will be finished in time for the opening. Two or three of the large halls are quite ready to receive exhibits, and in…

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The Agricultural Society's Meeting

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1889 · page 2

THE sprit that seems to affect all public movements in Molong is either one of procrastination or "I don't care a cuss what happens so long as I can consult my own…

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WHOSE! (To a pair of slippers in the Egyptian Exhibition.)

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 March 1889 · page 8

Tiny slippers of gold and green, Tied with a mouldering golden cord! What pretty feet they must have been When Caesar Augustus was Egypt's lord!…

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Bathurst A. H. & P. Association. Annual Show

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 11 April 1889 · page 2

The twenty-seventh annual exhibition in connection with the Bathurst A.H.&P. Association opened yesterday morning. A beautiful morning after "glorious rain" made everyone likely…

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[?] Association. Annual Show. Second Day.—thursday

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 April 1889 · page 2

The "People's day" of the Bathurst Show as the second day is called opened most auspiciously bright sunshine and a bracing air prevailing; and the whole district turned out…

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Continental Correspondence. International Exhibition of 1889

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 18 April 1889 · page 1

It is to M. Galland that has been awarded the first prize in the competition for the design of the diploma of the approaching Exhibition. The successful candidate, who in professor at the School of…

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Paris Exhibition. London

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 20 April 1889 · page 3

The Czar of Russia will visit the Paris Exhibition. The latter will he-closed after the opening ceremony in order to permit the various courts and buildings to be…

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Original Correspondence. We do not identify ourselves with the opinions of our Correspondents Painting or Coloring the Legs of Show Poultry

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 7 May 1889 · page 2

Sir.—In your issue of this morning I find Mr. Page is reported to have said, when giving an explanation to tho Committee of the A. H. and P. Association for the "coloring" of the…

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Hawkesbury District Agricultural Society's Show

The Bathurst Post · Wednesday 15 May 1889 · page 1

THIS Society opened its 10th annual show this day (May 9th). The catalogue shows that there are 1,892 entries.In some classes the people of this part are very strong, as is proved by the exhibits. Blood horses, coaching horses…

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International Exhibition of 1889

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 28 May 1889 · page 3

The following is a list of the fetes proposed to the given in connection with the Exposition. On May 5th, the Fete of the Federation of Versailles, on which occasion a banquet will be given in the Salle…

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Continental Correspondence. Scientific. Art and Science at the Exhibition

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 18 June 1889 · page 3

The famous treasure of antiquities from the Abbey of Congue has reached the Exhibition, it comprises a gold statue of St. Fay, which it, about 1,000 years old. It is the artistic queen of the…

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Bourke and the Show

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 25 June 1889 · page 2

A few months, or even weeks, since, and the country out this way was one vast parched area, fit for nether man or beast. The heat was intense not a blade of grass was to he seen, and water—well…

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Parramatta Poulty Show. Friday morning

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 June 1889 · page 2

The second annual show of the Parramatta Poultry Club opened yesterday. Everything was well arranged, and the management was good. The exhibits were numerous—about 700. In some of…

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The Parramatta Poultry Show

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 July 1889 · page 3

The above show was held at Parramatta, in the Town Hall, on June 27th, 28th and 29th, when some 1,300 or 1,400 birds put in an appearance. The show was good, and, in several cases, the judges…

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A Fair Show. Making a Hog Happy, and How It Resulted

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 July 1889 · page 8

We were sitting in front of Taylor's grocery store on a summer day, when a big black hog came nosing along the gutter and started a new train of thought. In the crowd…

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'A Dream of Fair Women.'

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 July 1889 · page 8

1890.—Admission of spinsters and widows to the London County Council. Large grants of money made to curates and junior physicians. Establishment of a College for Cats,…

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The New South Wales Poultry, Pigeon, Canary & Dog Society. 12th Annual Exhibition

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 6 August 1889 · page 2

At this society's exhibition, held in Sydney the week before last, Mr. W. H. Webb was the second largest winner with the following prizes, viz.— Cochins, cock and hen, buff and cinnamon, 2nd…

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Annual Stud Sheep Fair

The Bathurst Post · Monday 16 September 1889 · page 3

£23,653, 19s. 6d. for 3,123 sheep is the result of the last sheep sales in Sydney—equal to an average of a little over £7 11s. per head. The bulk of this money leaves New South Wales and…

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Bathurst Free Press “Magna est veritas et prœvalebit.” Tuesday, September 24, 1889. The "One-Sheep" Show

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 24 September 1889 · page 2

DURING the past week the metropolis has been the scene of the annual exhibition of the “Agricultural Society of New South Wales” so-called, and in consequence of thar remarkable…

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The Metropolitan Exhibition

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 28 September 1889 · page 2

The great Agricultural Society of this, the parent colony of all Australasia, held its annual exhibition at Moore Park last week, Unfortunately, the weather was not favourable, and the result is that the Society…

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