Agricultural Society
The usual quarterly meeting of the Upper Manning Agricultural society was held in the school of arts on Saturday last. Mr. A. Herkes, Vice President, occupied…
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Shows & fairs, 1888
20 stories in Mid North Coast's papers
Burning of Barnum’s Show
The New York correspondent of the Daily News gives some further particulars of the burning of Banium’s show. He says : “The building, was of wood, filled with all…
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The ninth annual Show of the Manning River Agricultural Society was opened on Wednesday last. Showers threatened, but on the whole the weather was all that could…
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MR. EDITOR.—Are the committeemen of the Upper Manning Agricultural Association asleep ? If so, do they sleep in security I think not. Yet we see no indication of their…
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The fourth annual Show of the Upper Manning Agricultural Association was opened on the 18th instant under the most favourable auspices. The weather was all…
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Amongst the many works which are being actively pushed on at the Exhibition is that of preparing for the lighting by electricity of the whole building. The small cables in which…
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The annual meeting of the members of the Upper Manning Agricultural Society was held on Saturday last, 23rd instant, in the school of arts, Wingham. There was a very…
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It is becoming increasingly apparent that New South Wales, notwithstanding the heroic exertions of Mr. R. B. Smith, is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Opening of Melbourne Exhibition [By Telegraph.]
ON Thursday the Melbourne Exhibition was visited by Members of Parliament of the respective colonies; also 8000 people…
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The most brilliant of the festivities in connection with the Exhibition took place at Government-house on Tuesday evening last, when the…
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The following is the result [?] an interview between a representative of the Melbourne Herald and Sir John Robertson, on the occasion of the Knight of Clovelly’s visit…
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A lady who was present at a court reception at the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, writes thus: "It was a bitter cold day when we drove…
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"A remarkable exhibitions of St. Elmo's fire," was witnessed by the writer on the summit of the Sonnblick mountain in Austria, about 10 000 feet above sea level…
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A SPECIAL general meeting of the Port Macquarie and Hastings District Agricultural and Horticultural Society took place in Mr. Butler's rooms on Saturday last. There…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →R. B. Smith and the Melbourne Exhibition. Writ for £5000 for Libel. Sydney
R. BURDETT SMITH, Executive Commissioner for New South Wales at the Melbourne Exhibition, was yesterday served with a writ for £5000 for libel in connection wtih…
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THE members of the above met in the office of the Colonial Secretary on Tuesday last, the Chief Justice presiding. The eleventh report of the…
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ON Thursday last about noon, amid the wealth of flowers and other products of the earth, Mr. P. C. Hill, in the absence of the President of the Agricultural…
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In speaking of the various things of interest at the Centennial Exhibition, the Melbourne Mirror says:— “Every time one visits the Exhibition and…
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STRANGE news comes from Brisbane re the Aquatic Carnival, on Friday the 7thinst. A heat was run between Searle,…
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ONE of the heats in the Brisbane aquatic carnival proved a complete frasco, on account of the conduct of Searle and Matterson towards Beach, the three men being engaged in the first heat of the day. A…
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