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Mid North Coast · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1891

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The Macleay Agricultural Show

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 4

THE season is again drawing round, when the Macleay A. H. & I. Society will open their exhibition at West Kempsey: and the approaching…

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A World's Labor Exhibition. London

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 21 January 1891 · page 2

It is intended to hold a world's labor exhibition at an early date…

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A World's Fair at Chicago. London

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 21 January 1891 · page 2

A world's fair in Chicago will open on the 1st May, 1893…

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Port Macquarie Agricultural Show

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 25 February 1891 · page 2

THE Show opened at Port Macquarie, on Wednesday last, appears to have been a great success. In most divisions, the entries were fully up to the…

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Show of Fruit

Macleay Argus · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 6

The collection of fruit brought together by the different delegates invited to meet in conference by the Minister for mines and Agriculture has…

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Macleay Agricultural Show. Before the Opening

Macleay Argus · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 4

A GLORIOUS sun and a sharp clear atmosphere ushered in the morning of the opening of the tenth Annual Show on the Macleay. Increased entries, and…

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The Agricultural Show. Final Notes

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 4 March 1891 · page 3

WE have been handed a letter by Mr. W. T. Dangar, received from Mr. P. H. Morton, stating his inability to be present at the Show, and also a…

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Proprietors of the Wild West Show Arrested. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 March 1891 · page 5

Harmston & Sons, proprietors of the Wild West Show have been arrested in Brisbane, in connection with a writ for £5000. It appears that at a rifle…

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The Bellinger Show. FERNMOUNT, Thursday night

Macleay Argus · Friday 20 March 1891 · page 4

THE Show which opened here yesterday, has been the greatest success yet recorded for the Bellinger. Entries in nearly all sections, were far in excess…

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Chrysanthemum Show

Macleay Argus · Friday 17 April 1891 · page 4

A chrysanthemum show and concert in aid of the funds of the Church of England has been organised for Saturday, April 25th instant. The…

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Wirth's Wild West Show

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 April 1891 · page 5

This mammoth exhibition, which throughout the colonies has treated such a furore, will open in Kempsey for two nights, Monday and Tuesday…

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The Grafton Agricultural Show. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 April 1891 · page 4

Four thousand five hundred people visited the Clarence Agricultural Show at Grafton yesterday…

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Chrysanthemum Show

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 29 April 1891 · page 3

A VERY creditable display of flowers was brought together at the Alexandria Hall on Saturday last, in the Chrysanthemum collection organised…

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Intercolonial Sheep Show. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 3 July 1891 · page 4

The Intercolonial Sheep Show opened yesterday at Moore Park. There were a large number of first-class exhibits…

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Poultry and Dog Show. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 July 1891 · page 3

The poultry, pigeon, canary, and dog show exhibition was formally opened yesterday by the Countess of Jersey…

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New South Wales to Be Represented at the Chicago World's Fair. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 4 August 1891 · page 2

The Government has decided that New South Wales shall be represented at the Chicago world's fair…

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A Big Tree For the Chicago Exhibition

Macleay Argus · Friday 21 August 1891 · page 3

One of the Californian big trees is to be cut down, and sent to the great Chicago Exhibition. Not the whole…

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The Chicago World's Fair. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 8 September 1891 · page 2

At a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday the Chicago Fair was further considered. The States' Consul here suggests sending the most suitable…

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The Agricultural Show. To the Editor

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 15 September 1891 · page 2

Sir,--I see by the papers that your free- trade theories have permeated the Agricultural Association, and that they intend to give no prizes to district breds. I propose to…

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International Exhibition. London

Macleay Argus · Friday 18 September 1891 · page 5

An international exhibition is proposed to take place in Berlin in 1895…

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