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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shows & fairs
202 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 11
The Cycling Carnival to-day was very largely attended, and the racing excited great interest. The International Quarter-mile Championship was won by Major Taylor by a length from Don…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nearly all the centenarians are women. Doubtless the quiet and regularity of a woman's life accounts for this fact, and even…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The second of this season's cycling carnivals, under the auspices of the League of N. S. Wheelmen, was commenced on the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday, when there…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE enterprise in bringing a world's champion from America at considerable cost was well rewarded by the great crowd which gathered at the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An experiment that will be watched with a great deal of interest is about to be tried in London. It is said that English…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THERE was a great crowd at the Cycling Carnival to-day. The filial of the League Cup was won by Don Walker, with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT the regular monthly mooting of the committee on Thursday evening the members present were:—Messrs. J. Kane (President), A. H. Garven, Dug Macdonald, K. McDonald, S. A. J. Small, A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →She's rather laded now, and thin, Her shining locks, are not so glossy; She's lost the dimple in her chin, Her air's subdued instead of saucy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There was another large attendance at the Major Taylor cycling carnival on Monday night. The champion cyclist curried all before him. Major Taylor won his heat and the final in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MEETING of the committee of the recent Fancy Fair in aid of Maclean School of Arts building fund was held on Tuesday, Mr. Lobban being in the chair. The treasurer of the committee, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the first heat of the First-class Handicap on Saturday night, the world's champion rode the half-mile unpaced all the way. He gave Wilksch 25 yards, and caught him like a flash. Then the champion set sail…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Jane," said a mistress the other day to her servant, "I am sorry to part with you; but I can't put up with your impudence no longer. You…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Lismore Show opened on Tuesday, when there was an attendance of about 1000. The weather was fine, but rather hot. In the show of dairy cattle the exhibits generally were in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In 1748 there resided in the wilds of Connaught a lady named Gunning, of whom little is known but that before her marriage she was the Hon. Bridget…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are in receipt of the Royal Agricultural Society's schedule for the show of this year, 8th to 16th of April. Champion prizes, of £20 each…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LISMORE, Friday.—The show concluded yesterday. The weather was fine throughout, and the results fully justified the decision of the Committee to hold as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE motion proposed by Mr. A. P. Gale and agreed to by the committee of the L.C.A. Society, that class tickets for agricultural produce should give particulars of the time of planting, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE local paper states the show at Tarce was in many respects superior to its predecessors. Coming to the produce shed, it was here that the observer received the greatest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Because a girl takes a position of service in a store is no reason why she should proclaim a personal declaration of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THIS annual event is to be held at Kempsey on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, March 25 and two following days and all entires, close on saturday March 24. The Schedule…
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