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Shows & fairs, 1870

6 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Agricultural Society

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 15 January 1870 · page 2

THE Quarterly Meeting of this Association held, as advertised, at Cundletown, on Monday last—JOSEPH BATES, Esq., one of the Vice-Presidents in the Chair…

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Select Poetry. Beautiful Show

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 26 February 1870 · page 1

IN the early part of the American Civil War, one dark Saturday morning in the dead of winter, there died at the Commercial Hospital, [?] a young woman over whose head only two and twenty summers had passed. Highly educated and…

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The Carnival at Rome

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 4

THE Carnival; all the people here say, is a doomed institution, losing year by year its Roman and medieval character. It is nothing, they say, to what it was when half the…

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The Intercolonial Exhibition

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 2

THE Exhibition building is proceeding at a rapid pace. The inside is advancing to a state of completion. The di[?]rd of the painters, although terminating in happier results than were…

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The Intercolonial Industrial Exhibition

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 August 1870 · page 2

FINE weather has done wonders for the Exhibition. Mr. Young, the Corporation, and the Agricultural Society have all reason to be thankful for the change that has occurred ; and though it is…

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Intercolonial Exhibition. Special Report for the “News.”

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 10 September 1870 · page 4

TUESDAY and Wednesday of last week were proclaimed general holidays in honor of the great exhibition, and we supposed that not only would the shops be closed, but that all…

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