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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1899

115 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 6

Singleton Show. The Clarence Exhibits

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 25 August 1899 · page 5

THE Singleton show last week was very successful. The attendance on the second day reached 8000, which, owing to the rain in parts of the district was less than at last show. The Clarence…

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Gambling at the Fair

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 4

A day or two after the Fair was opened a gambling contrivance on the principle of the roulette table was started to give those who were disposed for a little flutter, an…

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Flirtations at the Fair

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 4

And yet, in spite of everything, our draggletails and damp feet and oldest gowns, the Press Bazaar draws everyone with a force more hypnotic than you can easily grasp of…

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Political and Social. the Charity Fair

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 4

On Saturday evening there was a record attendance at the Fair being held in the Exhibition Building, Prince Alfred Park, in aid of the Queen Victoria Home for…

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L. C. Agricultural Society

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 29 August 1899 · page 3

AT the monthly committee mooting on Saturday afternoon there were present:—Messrs. D. M' Lach[?] (in the chair), B. Elington, J. Mac[?] A. Camoron, J. M'Millian, J. M…

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Spring Show

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1899 · page 2

A MEETING of the subcommittee of the L.C.A. Society appointed to revise the schedule for the Spring Show was hold on Saturday. Tho schedule was revised, sections being…

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The Consumptives' Homes Fair

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 9 September 1899 · page 2

The net financial result of the Consumptives' Homes Fair will be between £6000 and £7000, which, I understand, is fully equal to the anticipations of the committee. It is a considerable…

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Marvels of the 1900 Paris Exhibition

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 9 September 1899 · page 3

If only a quarter of the marvellous sights and shows which we ore told will be on view at the Exhibition to be held next year in Paris ever come off, the Exhibition will still be a wonderful place…

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Maclean Flower Show

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1899 · page 2

SCHEDULES are noe available for the Flower Show to be cnducted by the Lowor Clarence Agricultural Society on the 9th November (Prince of Wales Birthday) on the Society's…

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A Bis Show

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 15 September 1899 · page 2

ASHTON'S circus opens business at Bowra to-night (Friday) and will astonish the natives at Nambucca Heads to-morrow night. On Monday night Bellinger Heads…

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Boycotting the Paris Exhibition. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 15 September 1899 · page 3

Charges have been preferred against the President and Premier of France by the Nationalist Party of abandoning the army heroes on behalf of the traitor Dreyfus…

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Maclean Spring Show

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 22 September 1899 · page 7

DURING the past few days Mr. George Davis, the Secretary for the Lower Clarence Agricultural Society, has been moving round among the fruit growers of the Lower Clarence, with the…

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Grafton Spring Flower Show

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 26 September 1899 · page 4

The committee met on Friday evening, and dealt with business connected with the show to be held in the Rink on the 18th and 10th of next month. It was decided to…

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L.C. Agricultural Society

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 3 October 1899 · page 3

AT the usual meeting of the committee of the above Society on Saturday afternoon there were present Messrs. D. M.'Lachlan (in the chair), R. J. M'Donald, D. T. Burt, T. F. Ryan, C. W…

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The Hospital Fair

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 3 October 1899 · page 4

As the Examiner informed its readers some time ago, the net proceeds from the Fair that was held in Sydney in aid of the Queen Victoria Home for Consumptives was a…

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Salvation Soldiers "Show."

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 3 October 1899 · page 2

As already intimated, the annual self-denial effort of the Salvation Army is now engrossing the attention of the officers and soldiery throughout the entire globe, and the Maclean band are…

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District Exhibits at Sydney Show

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 10 October 1899 · page 2

THE Royal Agricultural Society is offering prizes for collections of produce to be exhibited at the next Sydney show by district societies. The L.C.A. Society might, with little trouble and expense, get…

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Steamers for the Show

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 13 October 1899 · page 2

If careful attention to details is to count for anything, then the Spring Show to be held at Maclean on Prince of Wales Birthday should prove an unqualified success. Nothing appears…

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L.C. Agricultural Society

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 17 October 1899 · page 2

AT a meeting of the committee of the above on Saturday afternoon there were present: Messrs. D. Shearer (in the chair), D. Sec, D. McLachlan, D. T. Hurt. C. Farlow, P. Walker, S. Macnaughtan, J…

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Flower Show and Industrial Exhibition

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 17 October 1899 · page 4

To-morrow afternoon at 3, the Mayor (Mr. D. Beatson) will formally open the Spring Flower Show and Industrial Exhibition organised to liquidate the debt on St…

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