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

Shows & fairs, 1890

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Art and Industrial Exhibition

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 September 1890 · page 2

The art and industrial exhibition at the Elite Rink promoted by Mr. W. G. Randall will remain open till the end of the week. There is a really fine collection of pictures on view, and the…

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Gunning Agricultural Society

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 2 October 1890 · page 2

The Annual meeting of the Gunning Pastoral, Agricultural, and Industrial Society was hold on Monday afternoon, Dr. English presiding. The secretary and treasurer's…

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Goulburn A., P., and H. Society

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 October 1890 · page 2

AT a meeting of the committee yesterday afternoon, at which there was a full attendance of members, Thursday and Friday, 19th and 20th March, were chosen as the dates for next…

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The Mining Exhibition. LONDON, Oct. 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 October 1890 · page 4

The Times suggests that the exhibits at the Mining Exhibition should be retained in England for the purposes of technical education…

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The Chicago Exhibition. LONDON, Oct. 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 October 1890 · page 3

Mr. G. Collins Levey, C.M.G., has been appointed British Executive Commissioner to the Chicago Exhibition. He will visit the Australian colonies with the view of procuring…

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The Cooma Sheep Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 October 1890 · page 3

COOMA, Thursday.—The Cooma sheep and horse show was continued to-day. The attendance was large. The weather was cold and showery. Fourteen competed for the Hunters'…

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A Carnival of Talk

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 October 1890 · page 4

THE Rev. Hugh Dunlop, hon. secretary of the Literary and Debating Societies' Union, has issued a circular to the various literary and debating societies of the colony, in which he…

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Flower Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 October 1890 · page 2

ON Thursday at half-past seven the Mayor opens a flower show at the Town Hall. The show is promoted by the congregation of Trinity Presbyterian Church Although the season is…

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Flower Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 October 1890 · page 3

THE Mayor of Goulburn (Mr. R. T. Ball) will open a flower show this evening at the Town Hall. The show is promoted by the congregation of Trinity Presbyterian Church. We…

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Goulburn A., P., and H. Society

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 October 1890 · page 2

THE committee of the above met on Wednesday afternoon. The principal business was the revision of the prize schedule for the next show…

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Flower Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 November 1890 · page 4

A TRANSFOMATION was effected in the Town Hall on Thursday evening last, and any one acquainted with the usual prosaic appearance of the building might well have been excused if…

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Crookwell A., P., and H. Society

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 November 1890 · page 3

A meeting of the committee of the Agricultural Association was held on Tuesday afternoon to hear the result of the application to the secretary, who is absent from town, for a return of…

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Trinity Presbyterian Church Flower-show

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 1 November 1890 · page 4

IN connection with the Trinity Presbyterian Church a flower-show was opened on Thursday evening last in the Town-half, the use of which building had been granted by the…

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Rose Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 November 1890 · page 2

A "rose show" will, we understand, be held in the course of a fortnight in connection with the Y.M.C.A., the purpose being to assist the funds of the institution, Schedules will be…

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Y.M.C.A. Flower Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 November 1890 · page 2

As will be seen by our advertising columns special prizes have been given for the above show by kind donors, and as a result the attractiveness of the exhibition will be…

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The Lord Mayor's Show. LONDON, Nov. 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 November 1890 · page 4

As a compliment to Mr. Sheriff Farmer, of London and Sydney, who was lately elected, a colonial car representing Australia was introduced into the Lord Mayor's show to-day…

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Rose Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 November 1890 · page 2

Lovers of flowers should not forgot the rose allow which opens in the Y.M.C.A. hall on Thursday afternoon. Owing to the cool, moist season there is a splendid crop of the queen of…

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Rose Show

Goulburn Herald · Friday 21 November 1890 · page 4

YESTERDAY afternoon a show of re[?]le was opened in the Y.M.C.A. hall in aid of the building fund of that institution. The display w[?]diugly fine, and m[?]y of the [?]…

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Goulburn A., P., and H. Society

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 November 1890 · page 4

At a meeting of the committee on Wednesday afternoon arrangements were made for issuing the prize schedule. It was decided that no catalogues he printed for next year's show. The…

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The Y.M.C.A. Rose Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 November 1890 · page 4

THERE were some additional attractions at the Y.M.C.A. flower show on Friday. Mr. W. Davis had a magnificent collection of pelargoniums, which elicited unlimited…

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