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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1870

4 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

The Show of Sheep at Armidale

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 15 January 1870 · page 7

THE exhibition (under the Pastoral and Agricultural Society of New England) of unshorn sheep, as advertised, came off on last Thursday week, in Mr. Starr's paddock, on the hill N. of Armidale…

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The Agricultural Society's Prizes for Wool

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1870 · page 8

THE Agricultural Society of New South Wales have inaugurated their great Intercolonial Exhibition for 1870 by holding a show of wools at Messrs. Mort and Co.'s stores, Circular Quay, and…

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Colonial Items. Intercolonial Exhibition

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1870 · page 3

THE most interesting intelligence from Sydney this week has reference to the opening of the Intercolonial Exhibition in the metropolis. From our exchanges, we extract the following:—…

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The Wool Show

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 29 October 1870 · page 4

MORY AND Co. deserve high praise for the liberality they have evinced in offering to the wool growers of New South Wales and Queensland a challenge cup of the value of fifty guineas, to be competed for by the flock-mastors…

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