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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1888

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Casino Show. Casino

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 5

THE fourteenth annual show held at Casino yesterday and to-day was a success. The horse section was very strong in numbers, bat weak in quality in several classes. There were 460 entries…

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Clarence P. and A. Society's Show

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 4

MORE favourable weather for the C. P. and A. Society's Show could not have been desired than that with which it was favoured on Wednesday and Thursday last, and this materially contributed…

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THE Clarence and Richmond Examiner. [ESTABLISHED 1859.] Saturday Morning, 28Th April, 1888. Our Agricultural Society

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 4

THE Agricultural Society has, nowithstanding the want of sympathy manifested by adjoining districts, much cause to congratulate itself and the district on the success of…

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The Casino Show

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 2

THE late Show held by the R. R. A. H. and P. Society was the best yet held at Casino. Horses were a fine collection, but considering the reputation of the Richmond for horned cattle the display…

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The Late Exhibition. Opinions Expressed at the Society's Luncheon

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 2

AT the Society's luncheon, the usual toasts were proposed and responded to, and as some of the remarks of the different speakers bear upon matters affecting the Society, we give a condensed report…

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Exhibition of Women's Industries

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 15 May 1888 · page 4

THE meeting convened for Thursday last in the Protestant Hall, to raise funds in Grafton to supplement those in course of collection in Sydney and other parts of the colony, for the relief of…

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The Agricultural Society

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 10 July 1888 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the Agricultural Society is approaching. Notices are out inviting nominations for the positions of officers and members of committee for the…

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The Melbourne Exhibition

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 July 1888 · page 2

IT is quite evident that so far as New South Wales is concerned the Melbourne Exhibition will be very much of a fiasco. The business has been conducted in a bungling manner…

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Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society. The Annual Report. Annual Report of the Committee to be presented to the members at the twenty-second annual meeting to be held at the Society's office, Grafton, on Tuesday, the 31st July, 1888

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 28 July 1888 · page 8

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETINGS.—The General Committee has held five meetings, at which the attendance has been as follows:—T. G. Hewitt, president, 1; S. See, vice-president, 5; E. L…

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The Melbourne Exhibition

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 4 August 1888 · page 4

THE Melbourne Exhibition is being made the most of for the advantage of some people. At the same time, there is a great deal of very ridiculous nonsense and tomfolling extant in connection with…

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Opening of the Melbourne Exhibition. The Outdoor Pageant most brilliant ever witnessed in Australia. Clarence River Exhibits Prominent. by Telegram From Our Own Correspondent. Melbourne

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 4 August 1888 · page 5

THE morning opened beautifully fine, but as the time for the ceremony approached, ominous looking clouds shut out the sun. Immense crowds gathered in the streets, which were lined with hundred…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. [From our Special Correspondent.] Melbourne, Monday P.M.

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 7 August 1888 · page 3

THE N. S. Wales court, like all others, is still a long way from being finished. Many of the exhibits have not yet arrived, and a considerable number of those in the…

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The Melbourne Exhibition

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 11 August 1888 · page 4

THE great Melbourne Show has opened under circumstances of—for Australia—unparralled pomp and pageantry. The Victorians laid themselves out to excel, and so…

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The Melbourne Exhibition

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 11 August 1888 · page 8

MR. G. CRISPIN, of Carr's Creek, returned on Thursday last from the Southern Metropolis, the scene of the great Centennial Exhibition. He was present at the opening, at which the attendance…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. Working Shirt Factories

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 11 August 1888 · page 3

ONE ia almost tired of admiring Victorian enterprise or Victorian folly—call it which yon like—when the whirring of machinery in the adjoining room reminds you of busy…

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The Melbourne Exhibition

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 14 August 1888 · page 3

SYDNEY, MONDAY.—On Saturday upwards of 21,500 persons attended. The New South Wales Court is the centre of attraction. There was a large attendance at the special…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. Clarence River Exhibits

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 25 August 1888 · page 8

NEW South Wales as seen at the Centennial Exhibition, is still to a very great extent in a state of nature. In her courts are to be seen products— vegetable, mineral and animal—of an order and…

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Centennial Exhibition

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 1 September 1888 · page 8

IT is intended to hold a grain show at the Melbourne Exhibition on 9th and 10th October. The committee intend erecting a large trophy o[?] agricultural products at this show, and solicit exhibits for same. They will be admitted to the…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. [From a Special Correspondent.] No. II

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 8 September 1888 · page 4

IN visiting the Centennial Exhibition for a first time, one is apt to wander through the miles on miles of avenues and come away with an idea as of nightmare, of which it will be remembered that…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. (From our Special Representative)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 September 1888 · page 2

THE Exhibition is becoming more organised, though there are several carpenter's shops in active duty still on the premises. The N. S. W. Court begins to assume a much better aspect, the fruits…

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