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Hunter Valley · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1892

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The Sydney Sheep Show

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 29 June 1892 · page 3

The Royal Agricultural Society Sheep Show opened this morning. There are a large number of exhibits. Judging is still going on…

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The Chicago Exhibition Commission. The N.S.W. Commissioner's Departure SYDNEY

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 29 June 1892 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the Chicago Exhibition Commission was held this morning, for the purpose of officially bidding farewell to the Executive…

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Notes and Notions a drop of ink Falling upon a thought makes thousands May be millions think. "The World's Fair" Fizzle

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 29 June 1892 · page 2

The attitude taken up by Mr Dibbs in threatening that New South Wales will withdraw from its. arrangements to exhibit at the Chicago "World's Fair,…

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Another International Exhibition

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 July 1892 · page 2

The German Government officially announce their-intention of holding an international exhibition in Berlin in the year 1900…

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MISCELLANEOUS Gathered for Fair Readers

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 July 1892 · page 4

The tiny cordial cruets imported now for tea-tables are beautiful and costly. Granulated rook candy is the proper thing to sweeten tea and after-dinner…

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THE N. A. A. SHOW. Holiday for the Second Day Granted

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 July 1892 · page 2

A SHORT time ago the Government decided that, owing to the' Land Office inconveniences occasioned by the proclamation of public holidays for…

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The Chicago Exhibition The Representation of N. S. Wales

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 July 1892 · page 4

ALTHOUGH no definite information.has bEen received either from England or America specifying thE amount of exhibiting spacE to be allotted to New…

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The Forthcoming Show

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 July 1892 · page 1

MR MAHON, representing the Massey Harris Company, of Canada and Melbourne, has paid our town a visit in the interests of his company, with the…

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To Be Fair, Fat and Forty

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 July 1892 · page 2

A distinguished professor of the College of Physicians and Surgeons gives the following as the law of perfect health, beauty and longevity for summer: 'Eat fresh animal…

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The Approadning Show

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 August 1892 · page 3

A GRAND ARRAY OF EXHIBITS.—The Secretary has just got through his arduous task of posting of the entries for the approaching show with the gratifying result that not less that 2900…

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The Forthcoming Show. Good Prospects of a Successful Exhibition

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 August 1892 · page 1

MR C. POPPENHAGEN (sec. of the N. A. A.) and his assistants are busily engaged in getting everything in thorough going order for the show. The printing and other,…

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The Raging Carnival. Singleton Jockey Club

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 August 1892 · page 4

THE one-day's meeting of the Singleton Jockey Club took place on the Redbournberry course on Thursday, and passed off most satisfactorily, the…

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The Show at Singleton Next Week

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 August 1892 · page 8

Our reades are already aware that the Northern Agricultural Association's Show opens at Singleton on Wednesday next, and will be continued on Thurs day, which has been proclaimed a public holiday…

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To-day's Show

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 August 1892 · page 2

THE 25th annual show in connection with the Northern Agricultural Association opens to-day. The entries, which were published in a previous…

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Northern Agricultural. Association. Arrangements for the Show

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 August 1892 · page 3

THE committee of the Northern Agricultural Association met on Saturday last to make final araangements inconnection with the annual show,…

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Northern Agricultural Association. the Show at Singleton. [By Telegraph From Our Reporters.] Singleton, Wednesday, noon

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 11 August 1892 · page 5

To-day in circumstances that are particularly gratifying to the Committee and all concerned in the Society, the Twenty-fourth Annual Exhibition in connection with the Northern Agricultural…

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Singleton Show

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 August 1892 · page 2

THE twenty-fourth annual show of the Northern Agricultural Association opened on Wednesday, and was continued the following day. The…

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The Show Carnival. a Boom of Festivity

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 August 1892 · page 2

THE 24th annual show in connection with the Northern Agricultural Association has passed, with its many incidental pleasures and excitements…

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Northern Agricultural Association. Twenty-fourth Annual Exhibition. [From Our Own Reporters.]

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1892 · page 3

The fact that a public holiday had been proclaimed in several parts of the Northern district on Thursday, and that reduced fares were charged on the railways, induced a large number of persons of…

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N.A. Association's Show. Judges' Awards. Horses. Blood Horses

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 August 1892 · page 5

Station over threee years old. Patrick M'Carthy's Yellow Jacket; Patrick M'Carthy's Scott's Grey, second; W. A. Hamilton's Neptune, very highly…

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