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

Shows & fairs, 1880

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International Exhibition.—wool

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 January 1880 · page 8

NEARLY 10,000 persons visited the International Exhibition on Saturday. Suggestions reached the Exhibition Commissioners from several quarters that the closing day of…

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Grand Firework Exhibition

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 January 1880 · page 4

WE wish to draw the attention of the public to the Grand Display of Fireworks which the enterprising proprietor of the Victoria Recreation Ground (Mr. Henry Payten) has…

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Rusticus at the Exhibition

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 24 January 1880 · page 4

HAVE you seen the exhibition? This is probably one of the most storeotypod questions of the day, next to those relative to the exact state of the weather which so naturally if not unconsciously…

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Proposed Grand Agricultural Show

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 4 February 1880 · page 4

IT is definitely decided by the commission of the grand international exhibition that a grand comprehensive show of agricultural products will be held in the agricultural…

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Messrs Kearey Brothers at the Exhibition

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 17 February 1880 · page 4

THE carriage exhibits of Messrs. Kearey Brothers, Pitt-street, have proved not the least attractive of the splendid collection on view at the Garden Palace. The firm's…

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Tuesday. (Before Messrs. F. A. Brock and H. A. Smith, J.’sP.) Hayes v. Hayes.—Assault, No parties

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 18 February 1880 · page 2

Mrs. Catherine Woods v. Wm. Abel.—Obscene language. Mr. Gordon for complainant. Complainant, the wife of Win. Woods, residing at Spring Greek, deposed that on Saturday last…

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The General Agricultural Show, Sydney

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 28 February 1880 · page 2

THE first great international show of the produce of the land will open in the Garden Palace grounds, Sydney, on Tuesday next. In a circular just issued by the committee on vegetable products it is shown…

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The International Agricultural Show

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 March 1880 · page 2

THE agricultural show, which was intended by the Commission of the International Exhibition to be a general display of all and every product of the land of all the colonies,…

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Exhibition Awards

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 March 1880 · page 2

THE following is a list of recommendations for New South Wales, made by the judges in the classes mentioned:-- BOOTS AND SHOES…

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Crookwell Agricultural & Pastoral Society's Show

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 5

PRESIDENT—J. W. Bray Esq. J.P.: Vice-Presidents—G. D. Hay Esq. J,P., H. Carr Esq.; Treasurer—J. W. Gunn Esq. J.P.; Honorary Secretary—T. H. Prosser Esq…

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Exhibition Awards. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 4

SIR,—As one of the Judges of Boots and Shoes at the International Exhibition I think that you have great reason to feel proud that your city has been so successful in obtaining the position it…

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Germany and the Sydney Exhibition

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 17 March 1880 · page 4

Privy Councillor Reuleaux, the German commissioner at the Sydney exhibition, has just furnished an exhaustive report to the minister of trade. He declares that Germany…

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Crookwell Agricultural and Pastoral Show. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 March 1880 · page 8

SIR,—I regret that I should have again to refer to your Taralga correspondence. would have thought that your correspondent upon his very culpable mis-statement being…

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Proposed Agricultural Society

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 March 1880 · page 4

A MEETING was held in the Municipal Chambers yesterday to consider the advisability of forming an Agricultural, Pastoral, and Horticultural Society in Goulburn. There were between forty and fifty…

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The Melbourne Exhibition Prize Poem

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 30 March 1880 · page 4

THE following is the prize poem for the inaugural cantata for the Melbourne International Exhibition. The author is Mr. J. W. Menden:-- ARGUMENT…

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Exhibition Prize Cantata

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 7 April 1880 · page 4

[To the following poem has been awarded the prize for the inangural cantata for the Melbourne International Exhibition. The author is Mr. J. W. Meaden. Pitty guineas was offered for writing the cantats, and a hundred gulness is to be given for…

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The Carnival in Rome

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 7 April 1880 · page 4

THE special correspondent of the S. M. Herald, writing from Borne under date February 14, says:— The Carnival this year has, in point of…

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Taralga Agricultural, Pastoral, and Horticultural Society's Show

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 17 April 1880 · page 5

PRESIDENT, L. Russ Esq. J. P.; vice-president, John Miller Esq. J.P.: treasurer, W. H. Whiting Esq. J.P.; hon. sec., J. W. Voller Esq. For a long time the residents in and around…

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Closing of the International Exhibition

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 21 April 1880 · page 3

THE heavy downpour of rain at daylight on Tuesday morning gave promise that there would be but little venturing outdoors; but, fortunately, about ten o'clock, the weather, which had been momentarily…

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The Burrawang Show

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 April 1880 · page 8

THE first show under the auspices of the Burrawang and West Camden Farmer’s Club and Agricultural Society was inaugurated at Burrawang yesterday, and will be continued…

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