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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1878

14 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Pay a Fair Price

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 1878 · page 4

THE obligations of honesty in trade are usually thought of as having respect to the seller rather than the buyer of goods. But there is for the one buying also, if not exactly…

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Exhibition Sales

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 5 March 1878 · page 2

MR. J. H. MUNRO.—At the Exhibition Ground, on FRIDAY next, Blood Mares, Draught Stallions, Hunting Horse, Hacks, Carriage Horses, Trotting Horses, Draught Colts, Durham Bulls, Cows, and…

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Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society's Dinner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 2

THE annual dinner of the above Association was held at Ramsay's Crown Hotel on Thursday evening. Mr. T. Bawden, M.P., President of the Association, occupied the chair, and Mr. T. H. Smith…

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Clarence P. & A. Society's Exhibition, 1878

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 3

PRESIDENT, Mr. T. Bawden, M.P.:Vice-Presidents, Messrs. T.G.Hewitt and T.H.Smith, J.P.; Committee—Messrs H. Asberry, G. H. Bowden, J. Crispin, jun., G.Crispin, C.H.E.Chanvel, J.P., P.R…

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The Clarence Agricultural Show. (By the Special Correspondent of the Sydney Mail.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 26 March 1878 · page 3

THE twelfth exhibition of the Clarence Agricultural and Pastoral Society opened on the 6th instant, with fine weather and a fair share of exhibits. The total number of entries received was 978, and this is said…

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Opening of the Sydney Exhibition at Prince Alfred Park. [From Our Special Reporter.] Tuesday Evening, 8.30

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 27 April 1878 · page 5

THE great advantages of agricultural shows, such as I am about to chronicle, cannot fail to impress the most obtuse minds of the untold good and technical education they disseminate over a large area of the staple…

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The Exhibition. Sydney, Monday Evening

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 30 April 1878 · page 3

The stock division of the Exhibition is remarkably well filled. Mr. John Moorchead's "King Billy" took first prize; Mr. Albert Eggins' "Lincoln's…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition. [From Our Special Reporter]. Tuesday Evening, 8.30 P.m

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 4 May 1878 · page 5

UNDOURiBTEDLY the best and most enjoyable day of the Exhibition has been that which has just closed. The appearance of the grounds during the forenoon, and even late into the evening, bore sufficient evidence…

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Exhibition of Natural— Grasses

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 25 May 1878 · page 3

AN interesting exhibition of natural grasses collected by Mr. A. A. Loycester, a gentleman of'thirtyfive years' experience in the colony, was opened at the Temperance Hall yesterday morning, and…

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The Opening of the French Exhibition. by Fictor Nogo

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 4

WHAT is grand is magnificent. What is magnificent is sublime. The Exposition is sublime —therefore it is magnificent and grand. A glorious Trinity of adjectives. In a word—…

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The Queensland Exhibition

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 3 September 1878 · page 4

THE sugar intrest has come forward nobly in aid of the exhibition. The result is a department comprehensive and valuable. Out of doors, Messrs. Alfred Shaw and Co. have erected a small horse mill and a…

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The Paris Exhibition. New South Wales Awards. Paris. August 31

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 3

THE following awards have been made by the Judges to exhibitors in the New South Wales Court at the Universal Exhibition:— The Grand Prize to the Ron. E.K. Cox, M. L.C,…

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Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 5 October 1878 · page 5

THE Floral, Horticultural, and Fine Art Exhibition of this Society, as notified in our last issue, is announced to came off at Grafton on the 17th instant. The schedule of prizes—rather a jumbled one as regards…

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The Flower Show

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 19 October 1878 · page 2

THE second annaual Flower Show of the C. V, and A. Society was held in Munro's Rooms, Prince-street, on Thursday. The popularity of this side show—as it may be called—was abundantly proved by the largo…

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