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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1880

17 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

nature. Show Birds Are Stuffed

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1880 · page 2

[?] these days, when ladies are so often in [?] of a new pursuit, one that shall com[?] great pleasure and attraction, [?] pleases the eye, and a sufficiency of…

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Fair Play to All. to the Editor of the Manaro Mercury

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 18 February 1880 · page 3

SIR,—A constable went into a school of gamblers the other night, caught the gambler in full play, and never summoned them. This happened in…

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Manaro at the International Exhibition

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 25 February 1880 · page 3

SEVERAL of our exhibits sent to the exhibition have taken prizes, as the following, clipped from the report of the judges, will show:—…

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At Bombala Show

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 17 March 1880 · page 4

[?] banquet given in Mr Millington's [?] Bombala, on Wednesday evening, Mr. H. M. Joseph, J.P., being in the [?] we learn from the Bombala Times…

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Fair Lady, at the Window be

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 24 March 1880 · page 3

I SAW her slily peeping, With mischief in her eye, And now I'm vigil keeping, With many a pent up sigh…

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Bombala Show, 1880. Section 16.—Saddlery

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 24 March 1880 · page 4

JUDGES: For s[?]ddlery and harness, Messrs. George Reed and M. M. Cohen. Set double buggy harness—J. E. P. Walker, special prise…

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Victorian Exhibition Prize Cantata

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1880 · page 4

To the [?]…

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The Exhibition Closed. in Memoriam

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 24 April 1880 · page 3

With measured steps the future [?] nigh. The past [?] the present [?] With what emotions of alternate [?] And [?] we baten to the [?]…

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The Exhibition INTRODUCTION "Labor omnia vincit"

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 20 October 1880 · page 6

Several Intercolonial Exhibitions have been celebrated in Melbourne, The first was held in a hideous glass building, which was built for the occasion near the old Treasury, in…

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The Exhibition Poem. [As it night have beon.]

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 20 October 1880 · page 8

DAUGHTER if liberty to thee we raise This pile industrial, and this song of praise. Commerce of Freedom still the guiding star, Victoria welcomces thee from isles afar…

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Victorian International Exhibition, 1880. Rise and Progress of Victoria

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 20 October 1880 · page 5

IN travelling the events which have last up to the remarkable culmination of an International Exhibition in a colony little m[?] then forty years age, [?] many, without fear…

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Victorian Exhibition

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1880 · page 3

THE Gippsland Mercury reports:— New South Wales occupies the position next to Victoria, but hers is the meanest show of all the colonies,…

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The victorian International Exhibition, 1880. the Art Gallery

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 1 December 1880 · page 2

Mr vistt to the above-named gallery being but a very short one, I am unable to do more than give my readers an extremely slight [?] of the [?] contained in it for many days might be…

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Victorian. International Exhibition, 1880. Art in Glass and Clay

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1880 · page 2

A CASUAL glance over the Exhibition must convince the most unobservant that British and Foreign countries have come here to trade, and not from any desire to please…

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Victorian International Exhibition, 1880. Art in Glass and Clay. (Concluded.)

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 11 December 1880 · page 2

MUCH that has been written about art in glass app ies to art in clay. Opaque glass articles are made to vastly resemble the same in clay, even to the imitation of that…

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Victorian International Exhibition, 1880. Representative Exhibits. Assam and Indian Teas

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1880 · page 2

English people are great tea-drinkers, more so than any other nation, except, perhaps, the Russians; the French, Italian, and Levantine countries assuming coffee,…

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Victorian International Exhibition, 1880. Representative Exhibits. Messrs. James M'ewan and Co.'s Exhibits

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 29 December 1880 · page 2

NOT the least interesting to visitors are the exhibits in the main British Court, which is situated to the left of the main avenue in the principal annexe. Indeed, the exhibits…

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