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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1891

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Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society. Twenty-fifth Report

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 August 1891 · page 2

As reported in our last issue, the annual meeting of members was held on Wednesday, and in the absence of the President and Vice-Presidents, Mr. G. H. Varley was voted to the chair, and moved the…

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Clarence and Richmond Examiner [ESTABLISHED 1859]. Tuesday Morning, September 8Th, 1891. The Agricultural Society: Its Work and Its Aims

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 8 September 1891 · page 2

WE are glad to observe that the Committee of the Agricultural Society has entered upon its year's work with a vigour which, if maintained to the end, must be crowned with success. That success,…

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The Chicago World's Fair

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 September 1891 · page 8

COLONEL ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, Commissioner for the World's Fair to be held at Chicago, seat by the United States Government to visit the Australasian colonies, in reply to a representative of…

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Clarence and Richmond Examiner [ESTABLISHED 1850]. Saturday Morning, September 19Th, 1891. The Agricultural Society. District National Prizes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 September 1891 · page 4

THE announcement that the MINISTER FOR MINES AND AGRICULTURE had decided to appropriate £200 to he distributed as District National Prizes at the Clarence Agricultural Society's Show 1892 is, so far…

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The Flower Show

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 October 1891 · page 3

WE notice that the Executive Committee of the Clarence P. and A. Society are doing their utmost to make the forthcoming Flower Show fully equal to any of its predecessors, and worthy of the…

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The Next Annual Show

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 October 1891 · page 8

AT the meeting of the General Committee of the Glarence P. and A. Society held on Friday last, some discussion took place on the schedule submitted by the Executive Committee for the…

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Casino Flower Show

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 17 October 1891 · page 5

CASINO, FRIDAY.—The Flower Show was a great success; fully 700 visited the building last evening, when a promenade concert was held and gave great satisfaction. Altogether 720 entries were made, of…

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The Flower Show

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 17 October 1891 · page 4

UP to the present the number of entries received for the Flower Show to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday is 810 as against 469 last year. A number of other entries are yet to come, and the…

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Exhibition of Horsemanship

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 October 1891 · page 8

MR. A. ROSS, of Camberwell, Upper Hunter, gave an exhibition of buck-jump riding last week. Canvas walls, on the principle of large American circuses, were arranged round the stockyard for the…

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The Flower Show

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 October 1891 · page 3

THE Fourteenth Annual Flower Show, Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition, under the auspices of the Clarence P. and A. Society, was held in the Rink on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Rink is well…

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An Abuse of the Show System

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 7 November 1891 · page 3

MR. FREEMAN-MITFORD seems to have raised a hornets' nest by denouncing, in a letter to the Lire Stock Journal, the practice of fattening cart horses for show purposes. He forcibly points out that…

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Clarence P. and A. Society's Exhibition

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 28 November 1891 · page 3

WE notice that the schedule for the next exhibition of the local Society has been issued to members, the press in the metropolis and northern districts, and the various Agricultural Societies on the North Coast…

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