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

Shows & fairs, 1888

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Clarence River Aquatic Carnival

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 January 1888 · page 2

AT the Clarence River Aquatic Carnival on Monday the All Comers' Handicap, pair sculls, 22 ft. skiffs, was won by C. Nelson (Sydney), 40lbs.; R. J. Brown (Chatsworth), 20 lbs.,…

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The Melbourne Centennial Exhibition. LONDON, Jan. 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 January 1888 · page 2

Fourteen hundred British and foreign exhibitors have sent in applications for space at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition…

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Intercolonial Cattle Show in Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 January 1888 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The National Agricultural Society propose to hold an intercolonial cattle show in connection with the Centennial Exhibition. A…

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Our Annual Show

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 13 January 1888 · page 2

THE prize schedule for the annual exhibition, which takes place this year on the 1st March, appears in our advertising columns, and will be found to be oven more liberal than the one…

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Mr. John Bright on Fair-trade

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 2

MR. JOHN PENDLETON, author of A History of Derbyshire, who has been inquiring into the industrial condition of the working classes of Yorkshire, recently wrote to Mr…

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The Bungendore Show-Ground

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 6

The following land has been reserved from sale for a show-ground for Bungendore:— Country of Murray, Parish of Wamboin, containing an area of 6 acres 3 roods 9…

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The Melbourne Centennial Exhibition. LONDON, Jan. 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 3

The United States Congress has voted 50,000 dollars towards the expenses of American representation at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition…

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Crookwell A., P., and H. Society

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1888 · page 2

A MEETING of the committee of the local agricultural society was held on Saturday afternoon, presided over by Mr. H. J. Corbett, vice-president. Arrangements connected with the…

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Intercolonial Exhibition

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 January 1888 · page 2

A GREAT deal of the judging was done at the Centennial Intercolonial Agricultural Exhibition on Tuesday. The show is well spoken of. In the horse section the classes as a rule compared with…

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The Centennial Agricultural Exhibition

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 27 January 1888 · page 2

THE judging at the exhibition in Sydney under the auspices of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales commenced on Tuesday, the formal opening taking place on Wednesday…

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The Centennial Intercolonial Agricultural Exhibition

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 January 1888 · page 5

THE ceremony of opening the Centennial Exhibition in connection with the Agricultural Society of New South Wales was performed on Wednesday afternoon by his Excellency the Governor,…

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Fruit and Flower Show

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 28 January 1888 · page 4

FRUIT AND FLOWER SHOW.—It is announced by advertisement in another column that a fruit and flower show, with a sale of useful and fancy goods, will be held in the hall of the mechanics' institute…

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Opening of the Agricultural S[?]ciety’s Show in Sydney on

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 28 January 1888 · page 3

Everything in Sydney now is accompanied by the thunder of artillery and the beat of drums, and therefore, it was ill accordance with the spirit of the times that His Excellency, when moving out…

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The Centennial Agricultural Show. to the Editor

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 9 February 1888 · page 2

SIR,—I notice an omission in your list of exhibitors who were awarded prizes at the centennial show, I suppose you were not aware that I took the society's prize of £10 for the best separator-made butter, and…

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The Coming Show

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 10 February 1888 · page 2

IF energy can accomplish successful results at the show, then it will be achieved. Out of the 87 letters sent requesting persons to act as judges, sixty-one replies have been received…

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The Show Ground Assault Cases

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 February 1888 · page 3

THE case of assault against George Macleay, arising out of the disturbance which occurred at the gates of the Agricultural Society's Ground on the 28th…

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The Gunning Show

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 17 February 1888 · page 2

GUNNING will be en fete on Thursday aud Friday next, the days of the first agricultural exhibition at that place. From what we can gather, there is likely to be a large number of…

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The Crookwell Show

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 17 February 1888 · page 2

WE are glad to inform our readers that special prizes in connection with the annual exhibition, which takes place on March 1st, continue to bo received by Mr. Oram, the hon. sec., in…

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Bowral Agricultural Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 February 1888 · page 5

The first annual show in connection with the Bowral Horticultural and Industrial Society was opened to-day by the Mayor, Mr. J. G. Morris, and will be…

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Fruit and Flower Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 February 1888 · page 3

THE Centennial Fruit and Flower Show and sale of useful and fancy articles, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the reduction of the debt on the Primitive Methodist Church, will be…

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