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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1901

178 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 9

Victorian Racing Carnival. Caulfield and Melbourne Cups

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 June 1901 · page 4

NOMINATIONS for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups are as follow:- Melbourne Cup, 5000 sovs, two miles— Gaselle, Limber, Honiton, Seahorse, Kulaul,…

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Victorian Racing Carnival. Caulfield and Melbourne Cups

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 June 1901 · page 4

NOMINATIONS for the Caulfield and Mel bourne Cups are as follow:- Melbourne Cup, 5000 sovs, two miles— G[?]elle, Limber, Honiton, Seahorse, K[?]la[?]…

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Victorian Racing Carnival. Caulfield and Melbourne Cups

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 June 1901 · page 4

NOMINATIONS for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups are as follow:- Melbourne Cup, 5000 sovs, two mites — Gazelle, Limber, Honiton, Seahorse, Kulaul,…

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Victorian Racing Carnival. Caulfield and Melbourne Cups

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 June 1901 · page 4

NOMINATIONS for the Caulfield and Melbourns Cups are as follow:- Melbourne Cup. 5000 sovs, two miles— Gazelle, Limber, Honiton, Seahorse, Kulaul,…

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Victorian Racing Carnival. Caulfield and Melbonrne Cups

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 June 1901 · page 4

NOMINATIONS for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups are as follow:- Melbourne Cup, 6000 [?], two miles— Gazelle, Limber, Honiton, Seahorse,…

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Victorian Racing Carnival. Caulfield and Melbourne Cups

Barrier Miner · Monday 1 July 1901 · page 4

NOMINATIOSB for the Caulfield and Melbourne Caps are as follow:Melbourne Cup, 5000 sovs, two milca— Gaselle, Limber, Honiton, Seahorse, Kulant,…

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The Hospital Carnival

Barrier Miner · Monday 15 July 1901 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon the Football and Lacroess associations combined to hold a carnival on the Oval in aid of the Hospital and the Mines' Disaster Relief Fund. On…

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Hospital Saturday Carnival

Barrier Miner · Monday 15 July 1901 · page 1

The Hospital Saturday Carnival on the Oval this afternoon was attended by about 600 people. A football match was played between 18…

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The Racing Carnival

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 July 1901 · page 2

It calls for more hard battling than at first meets the eye to carry out a race meeting successfully at Broken Hill. In the first place the Inducement to keep racehorses on…

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The Racing Carnival. Sale of Privileges

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 July 1901 · page 1

THE privileges in connection with the coming L. V. B. C. winter race meeting were disposed of this afternoon at the Exchange Hotel by Messrs. J. Souter and Co. The amount…

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The Commonwealth Fair

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 2

The musical examinations in [?] with the Commonwealth Fair are now in progress. Yesterday afternoon Mr. C. D. Southampton [?] the [?]. In the…

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The Racing Carnival

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 2

THE MAYOR received a wire from Sydney to-day stating that Wednesday, July 24, the date of the B. H. J. C. races, had been proclaimed a public holiday…

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The Racing Carnival

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 2

Acceptances close this evening for the B. H. J. C. race meeting—in Adelaide at 4 o'olock and in Broken Hill at 8 o'clock. So far the withdrawals have been very few…

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The Racing Carnival

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 4

THE Broken Hill racecourse will be thrown open for [?] purposes to-morrow morning. A large number of back-country and local horses are at present working on the…

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Racing Carnival

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 July 1901 · page 4

OUR Adelaide correspondent wires that the ra[?]e Research leaves Adelaide for Broken Hill to-day, in [?] of A. Cherry. Thunder King (who was said be dead), our…

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The Racing Carnival

Barrier Miner · Friday 19 July 1901 · page 4

A NUMBER of the horses which are to compete at the forthcoming meetings are being worked daily on the Broken Bill and White Leads [?]s, but the work so far done has…

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The Racing Carnival

Barrier Miner · Friday 19 July 1901 · page 2

MR. T. C. TAIT will attend the racecourse at 3 o'clock to morrow of ern[?] to give horses [?] with the starting machine. A number of Adelaide racing men will…

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Silver City Show

Barrier Miner · Friday 19 July 1901 · page 4

THE committee of the Silver City Show held a meeting last night at the Oriental Hotel L. Cohoun in the chair. The programme for the forthcoming show was under considers…

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The Racing Carnival

Barrier Miner · Saturday 20 July 1901 · page 4

THE committee of the Broken Hill Jockey Club have made very complete arrangements for the race meeting on Wednesday next, the opening of the carnival. The first race will…

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Snowshoe Carnival. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 20 July 1901 · page 4

The annual Kiandra snowshoe carnival was opened yesterday. Mr. Winther, a native of Norway, broke the Australian distance record, covering 220 yards in 9½ seconds…

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