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

Shows & fairs, 1876

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The International Exhibition of 1876

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 8 January 1876 · page 7

OUR Philadelphia correspondent sends us the following account of the contemplated international exhibition at Philadelphia:—"I have heretofore transmitted to you…

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Local and General. Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association. the Seventh Annual Show

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 February 1876 · page 2

YESTERDAY the seventh annual show under the auspices of the Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held on their ground on the bank of the river at North Yass. The arrangements…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association's Exhibition

The Burrowa News · Saturday 26 February 1876 · page 2

On Thursday last tHe Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association held their seventh Annual Exhibition. The attendance was large, not less that 1000 people being present. The present…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association's Show

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 29 February 1876 · page 2

AT the request of a number of exhibitors we give below the pedigrees of the principal prize-takers at the show held at Yass last Thursday. Thoroughbred stallion, three years and over…

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Goulburn Horticultural Society’s Autumn Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1876 · page 1

THE Autumn exhibition of the above society took place in the hall of the Mechanics’ Institute on Thursday last; and notwithstanding the late unpropitious state of the weather the number and…

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Hotel Accomodation at the Philadelphia Exhibition

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 8 April 1876 · page 7

DELPHIA EXHIBITION.—Some "chaff" is going on, aroused at the possibility that Australians going to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia will find no lodging-room left for…

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Intercolonial Exhibition. Sydney

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 26 April 1876 · page 2

THE metropolitan intercolonial exhibitions of 1876 is now randy to be opened to the public, and there is a fair prospect, as far as one can judge, that it will be a tolerably successful one; and so far as the…

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The Metropolitan in Intercolonial Exhibition of 1876. (Abridged from the Evening News.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 27 April 1876 · page 4

THE eight annual Intercolonial Exhibition of the Agricultural Society of New Snath. Wales was opened on Tuesday, and so one a again we are afforded sin opportunity of ascertaining what…

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The Intercolonial Exhibition

The Yass Courier · Friday 28 April 1876 · page 3

THE eighth Annual Exhibition of the Agricultural Society of Now South Wales was opened last Tuesday. The building had been well filled at an early hour, and large numbers continued to…

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Intercolonial Exhibition

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 29 April 1876 · page 2

THE attendance at the Prince Alfred Park, Sydney, on Wednesday, the second day of the Exhibition, was far beyond that of Tuesday; and, indeed, was as great, if not greater, than any one day on…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 29 April 1876 · page 2

LARGE numbers visited the exhibition on Tuesday. The weather is favourable, but there were indications of a change. A cool breeze was blowing all the forenoon, and…

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The Intercolonial Exhibition

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 3 May 1876 · page 3

FRIDAY was rather an off-day, if it may be so formed, and the attendance was, comparatively speaking, not large, Altogether about 12,000 people visited the exhibition during the day and evening, exclusive of…

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A Fine Art Exhibition

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 6 May 1876 · page 8

INTO one of the large jewellery and fancy goods store of Boston walked, the other day, one of those customers that the holiday season sometimes brings to town. He was…

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The Prince of Wales at a Serpent Show

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 6 May 1876 · page 8

An incident of the quiet day of the Prince of Wales's stay at Bombay was one which is de rigueur with all visitors to India—namely, an hour or so with Hindoc…

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The Yass Sheep Show, 1876. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 30 May 1876 · page 3

SIR,-- Feeling interested in the forthcoming Sheep Show, I would draw attention to the rule for "Sheep bred by Exhibitor," wherein it is made compulsory for the exhibitor to be the…

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Yass Sheep Show Association

The Yass Courier · Friday 2 June 1876 · page 2

A MEETING of the members of a sub-committee of the above association (appointed to draw up conditions for the amalgamation of the society with the Yass Pastoral and Agricultural…

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Correspondence. the Yass Sheep Show, 1876. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Friday 2 June 1876 · page 3

SIR,-- In reply to "Pastoral," who addressed you in your last issue with reference to number 4 of the rules passed by the committee of the Yass Sheep Show Association for the management of…

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Opening of the Philadelphia Exhibition

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 21 June 1876 · page 3

The opening of the great Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia hoe been announced, and the telegraph is laden with particulars and details of the ceremony of its formal inauguration. At nine o'clock a.m.,…

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The Centennial Exhibition

The Yass Courier · Friday 23 June 1876 · page 2

THE correspondent of the S. M. Herald writes: --At daylight on Wednesday morning, May 10, the bells in all the churches were rung, and many of the inhabitants of Philadelphia…

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The Colonies at the Philadelphia Exhibition

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 28 June 1876 · page 4

VICTORIA, South Australia, and Tasmania have cause for vexation when they think of the unlucky choice that was made of the Skerryvore as the vessel to bring across the…

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