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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1873

19 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

The Non-punctuality of the Fair Sex

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 18 January 1873 · page 2

If the reader has ever had the pleasure of going shopping with his wife or sweetheart, he will understand what we mean. You are always dressed and ready…

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The Approaching Exhibition

The Yass Courier · Friday 7 February 1873 · page 2

THE annual show of the Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association, to be held next week, promises to be as successful as that of last year. The influx of visitors is expected to be unusually…

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Local and General. Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association's Annual Exhibition

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 18 February 1873 · page 2

LAST week might almost be designated "carnival" week at Yass. The Yass Jockey Club annual race meeting occupied Monday and Tuesday, and the annual show of the Pastoral and…

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The Sale of Stock on the Show Ground

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 18 February 1873 · page 2

ON Friday last the various auctioneers hold sales of stock and other exhibits on the exhibition ground. There was a pretty good master of buyers und others. The first to claim the…

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How Fair Ones Manage Fairs

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 April 1873 · page 4

A CORRESPONDENT of the Louisville Democrat gives a bit of his experience as follows:-- My last letter was dated at Chicago. I don't expect to date another from that erterprising…

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How Fair Ones Manage Fairs

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 5 April 1873 · page 2

A CORRESPONDENT of the Louisville Democrat gives a bit of his experience as follows:— My last letter was dated at Chicago. I don't expect to date another from that…

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Opening of the Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition. (From the Evening News.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 24 April 1873 · page 4

THE Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition for 1873 was opened by his Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson, on Tuesday, at noon. He was accompanied by Lady Robinson, his Excellency Mr. Du Cane,…

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The Intercoloniad Exhibition. (Abridged from the S. M. Herald.)

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 April 1873 · page 3

THIS exhibition, the fruit of long and anxious thought and labour on the part of the Agricultural Society of the colony, was on Tuesday opened to the public; and although there were…

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The Intercolonial Exhibition. the Opening Day

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 26 April 1873 · page 6

THIS exhibition, the fruit of long and anxious thought and labour on the part of the Agricultural Society of the colony, was on Tuesday opened to the public: and although there…

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Intercolonial Exhibition. Fourth Day

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1873 · page 3

THE attendance of visitors on Friday showed but a slight falling off; and throughout the day the building was thronged, and it presented a very animated appearance. In the evening, also, when…

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Intercolonial Exhibition. Sixth Day

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 1 May 1873 · page 3

NOTWITHSTANDING that the exhibition had been open for nearly a week, and been attended by thousands of persons, the attendance yesterday was very large. The special trains from the South and…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Society. --

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 July 1873 · page 3

A meeting of the committee of this association is to be held to-morrow evening, when we believe arrangements will be made for holding the annual meeting. We understand that the medals…

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The Burrangong Pastoral & Agricultural Association's Exhibition

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 19 August 1873 · page 2

THE show on Thursday last can scarcely be described as altogether a success. The weather has again been against us, and it required a good deal of courage to wade ankle-deep in the clayey…

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Burrangong Pastoral and Agricultural Association's Annual Exhibition

The Yass Courier · Friday 22 August 1873 · page 4

As there were one or two errors in the prize list as published in our last, we extract the following from a supplement to the Burrangong Argus, published last Monday : -- The rain,…

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The Burrangong Pastoral and Agricultural Association's Exhibition

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 August 1873 · page 3

THE show on Thursday last can scarcely be described as altogether a success. The weather has again been against us, and it required a good deal of courage to wade ankle-deep in the clayey slush to examine the…

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The Show at Wagga Wagga

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 16 September 1873 · page 4

THE ninth annual show of stock under the auspices of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association took place in Wagga on Wednesday last. The following is the prize list: --…

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Worry and Show. [?]Ayard Taylor

The Yass Courier · Friday 10 October 1873 · page 4

Fill, for we drink to Labour! And Labour, you know is Prayer: I'll be as grand as my neighbour Abroad, and at home as bare!…

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The American International Exhibition of 1876

The Yass Courier · Friday 14 November 1873 · page 4

THE following is the proclamation of the President of the United States announcing the time and place of holding an International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products…

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The Goulburn Horticultural Society's Show

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 13 December 1873 · page 4

THE Goulburn Horticultural Society hold their show of horticultural and floral exhibits in the half of the mechanics' institute on Wednesday last. The room and its approaches had been tastefully decorated for…

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