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

Shows & fairs, 1879

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The International Exhibition

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 4

IT is satisfactory to be able to announce the commencement in earnest of The International Exhibition Building. Immediately after it was decided that the Government…

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Sydney International Exhibition

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 January 1879 · page 2

THE Government, assisted by the Executive Commissioner, have lost no time in deciding that the building of the Exhibition of 1879 shall be pushed on with vigor. It seems…

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The International Exhibition

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 January 1879 · page 4

No time is being lost in preparing the Inner Domain for the commencement of the mammoth building within which is to be held the Australian International Exhibition, and…

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The International Exhibition

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 7

APPLICATIONS for space are pouring in from every quarter, both at home and abroad. It is impossible to give even an approximate estimate of the amount of space needed to…

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The International Exhibition Building

The Yass Courier · Friday 24 January 1879 · page 4

AT a meeting of the International Exhibition commissioners held last Tuesday, Mr. Jennings, the executive commissioner, said it would be recollected that three resolutions…

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Some Facts About the Exhibition

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 25 January 1879 · page 4

THE cost of the building is expected to fall not far short of £100,000. Eleven million cubic feet of covered space will be afforded…

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Sydney International Exhibition

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 February 1879 · page 6

MUCH boasting is indulged in beforehand about the approaching Exhibition. It is sincerely to be hoped that it will redound to the glory of the colony and prove a gigantic…

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Goulburn and the Sydney Exhibition

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 February 1879 · page 4

A SHORT time ago we suggested the propriety of forming a committee in Goulburn to assist the Sydney Exhibition Commission. At the late municipal nomination the member for…

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Sydney Exhibition

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 February 1879 · page 3

THE foundation-stone of this building was to have been laid at 3 o’clock this afternoon by Lady Robinson. In order not to impede the operations of the workmen, invitations were limited to…

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Programme of Sydney Exhibition

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 February 1879 · page 8

A CIRCULAR has been issued for the coming Exhibition of 1879- Amongst the commissioners on the title page, it is reassuring to find that the name of the member for Argyle stands in a sufficiently…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association's Exhibition

The Yass Courier · Friday 21 February 1879 · page 2

THE ninth annual show of the above association will take place next Wednesday on the society's ground at North Yass. The stewards and officebearers are exerting themselves to have every…

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The International Exhibition. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 February 1879 · page 8

SIR,— I understand the Commissioners have ignored this city as governed by a social body, and have taken the extraordinary course of placing themselves in communication with the Police-Magistrate…

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The International Exhibition

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 25 February 1879 · page 2

A MEETING of magistrates was held at the courthouse, Yass, last Saturday forenoon to consider correspondence received from Mr. Augustus Morris, the secretary to the commissioners, and…

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The International Exhibition

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 25 February 1879 · page 4

GOOD progress is being made on the buildings, and the grounds present a busy scene. The commissioners have received a letter from Mr. H. W. Lenney, of the Home News office at…

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The Sydney Exhibition and Goulburn

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 February 1879 · page 3

YESTERDAY shorlty after noon a meeting of magistrates was held at the Goulburn courthouse. This meeting had been adjourned from Wednesday in order to enable the Mayor,…

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The Sydney Exhibition and Goulburn

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 February 1879 · page 4

ON Tuesday, at 7.30 p.m., a public meeting will be held in the Mechanics’ Institute with a view to securing a proper representation of this district at the Sydney Exhibition…

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International Exhibition.—Public Meeting

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 March 1879 · page 4

AT half-past seven o’clock this (Tuesday) evening a public meeting will be held in the ball of the Mechanics’ Institute, the object of which is to take such steps as may be deemed necessary to ensure…

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International Exhibition.—public Meeting

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 5 March 1879 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting, convened by advertisement by the mayor of Goulburn, was held in the hall of the mechanics' institute inst evening "to take steps to ensure for the city of Goulburn and county of Argyle…

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Sydney Exhibition and Goulburn

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 March 1879 · page 2

ON Tuesday evening a public meeting was convened in the Mechanics’ Institute, with a view to forming a local committee to cooperate with the Commission of the Sydney…

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The International Exhibition-- Meeting of Magistrates at Yass

The Yass Courier · Friday 7 March 1879 · page 2

A MEETING of magistrates to consider the steps necessary to be taken to have Yass properly represented at the forthcoming Sydney Exhibition was held on Wednesday morning at the…

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