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

Shows & fairs, 1887

156 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 8 of 8

Flower Show

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 November 1887 · page 2

THE Flower Show opened in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute on Thursday evening, though hardly equal to the previous year was nevertheless very good…

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The Flower Show

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 November 1887 · page 2

THE Flower Show in connection with the Anglican Church was held in the Mechanics' Institute on Wednesday last. We briefly alluded to it in our last issue, and now give our readers…

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Centennial Exhibition

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 November 1887 · page 2

Mr. W.H. ORAM has received the following letter, which We hope will each the eye of some of the sheep farmers who will be induced to send forward exhibits of wool, so that this…

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Goulburn A., P., and H. Society

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 November 1887 · page 4

INTENDING exhibitors at the Flower Show, to be held under the auspices of the above society on December 2, are reminded that the time for entries closes at four o'clock on Monday…

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The Paris International Exhibition. LONDON, Nov. 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 November 1887 · page 6

M. Waddington's secretary has requested the Agents-General to use their influence in inducing their respective colonies to exhibit at the Paris International Exhibition of 1889. He…

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Postponement of the Flower Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 November 1887 · page 2

AT a full meeting of the Goulburn A., P., and H. Society committee yesterday the forthcoming show was fully discussed, and us the entries received wore small and those present stated that…

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Gunning Agricultural Society

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 2 December 1887 · page 2

WE (Times) are informed by the hon. secretary that the lists of members are filling up well. Fifty-four members are on the town lists; of course those of the country are unascertained as…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. LONDON, Nov. 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 December 1887 · page 6

Six hundred and fifty intending British exhibitors at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition and 150 continental firms have applied for an aggregate amount of space representing an…

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Crookwell Agricultural Society

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 December 1887 · page 2

CROOKWELL, Wednesday.—The first meeting of the newly elected committee of the Agricultural Society was held this afternoon. Mr. Ezra Harvey presided. Mr. Frederick Shepherd…

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The Centennial Intercolonial Exhibition

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 8 December 1887 · page 2

At a recent meeting of the council in connection with the forthcoming exhibition in the grounds of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales, to be held at Moore Park, Sydney, the date of the official…

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Flower and Fruit Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 December 1887 · page 2

THE flower and fruit show held in connection with the A., P., and H. Society was opened to-day. Unfortunately the exhibition cannot be characterized as in any sense a success, the…

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Hospital Carnival

The Yass Courier · Friday 23 December 1887 · page 2

THIS week may be fairly termed the hospital week of Yass, and the first day of the carnival opined on Tuesday evening with the grand juvenile hall, which was held in the new…

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The second part of the carnival was the Grand Bazaar

The Yass Courier · Friday 23 December 1887 · page 2

which was opened in the Mechanics' Institute on Wednesday afternoon. The hall never looked better than it did on this occasion, and this was owing to the excellence of the arrangement of…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. PARIS, Dec. 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 December 1887 · page 4

It is announced that the French Government will officially participate in the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, provided that the time for the admission of exhibits is extended to the 1st…

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A Visit to the Goulburn Fruit and Flower Show. (To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 December 1887 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—There can be no doubt but those who visited this exhibition last Tuesday met with disappointment, not from the quality of the exhibts, which in some instances could not be…

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Exhibition of the Howard Reaper and Binder

The Yass Courier · Friday 30 December 1887 · page 2

ON Wednesday we were present at an exhibition of the Howard reaper and binder, at Mr. H. Burgess' farm. Mr. J. G. Howard, who is representing the firm of Messrs. J. and F. Howard, Bedford,…

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