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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1885

14 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Cooma Wool Show

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 17 January 1885 · page 3

MR. H. Dawson, hon. secretary to Cooma Pastoral, Agricultural, and Ploughing Association, received word from Sydney on Thursday that the prize-takers were as…

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Bombala Exhibition

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 4 February 1885 · page 3

A COMMITTEE meeting was held at the secretary's office on Wednesday last; Mr. J. Cruickshank, J.P., in the chair. The secretary read the following letter from Mr…

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Candelo Agricultural Society. CANDELO

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1885 · page 2

A committee meeting of the Candelo Agricultural Association was held yesterday. Everything was arranged for the show next Thursday and Friday. Things…

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Bombala Show

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 11 March 1885 · page 2

ONE novelty draw much attention, reports the Bombala Herald—that a Mexican saddle brought out from home by Mr. H. T. Edwards. Mr. H. T. Badgery rode in…

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Cooma show Ground and Letter Carrier

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 4 April 1885 · page 2

The following correspondence is of interest to our readers:— Sydney, 31st March, 1885. The Mayor, Cooma…

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Cooma Show Ground

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 15 April 1885 · page 2

IN accordance with an advertisement published in the press, a number of gentlemen assembled in the long room of Mr. W. T. Cohen's Cooma Hotel at 5 p.m. on…

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Cooma Show Ground. Department of Lands. Sydney, 16th June, 1885

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 4

It is hereby notified, for public information, that his Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased in approve of the…

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Cooma Show Ground

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 1 July 1885 · page 3

THE following has been received by us:—Department of Lands, Sydney, 16th June, 1885. Sir,—I am directed to invite your attention…

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Later Telegram. Johns' Flower Show. Federal Council Bill. Forbes Crown Lands Agent Dead. Eighteen Lashes for a Boy. Judge Docker's Sentence. Cahors Inquiry Re-opened. SYDNEY, Monday night

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 22 July 1885 · page 3

Two thousand persons assembled on Sunday afternoon around the grave of the lately executed criminal Frank Johns at Rookwood cemetery for the…

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Indian Exhibition

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1885 · page 4

WE are in receipt of the following communication:—New South Wales Commission, Colonial and…

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A Fair Widow

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1885 · page 6

GLADYS, Lady Lonsdale, the fairest widow in all England, and very nearly the poorest for her rank, looked "superbly beautiful in her dark drees and short real-skin dolman…

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Cooma Show

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Thursday 22 October 1885 · page 3

It was thought by nearly all in Cooma that yesterday would be a wet day. Rain set in lightly at 9'o clock but by 10 the weather got fine. On account of the excitement…

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Sketcher. Our Carnival Racecourse

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 November 1885 · page 2

SOMEWHERE shout the time that Admiral Nelson floored the combined fleets at Trafalgar, there met together in the mess room of the barracks in Sydney certain military…

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Adaminaby Agricultural Society. MR. H.S. BADGERY forwards the following letter to us for publication:— Department of Lands, Sydney, 6th November, 1885

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 14 November 1885 · page 3

Sir,—Referring to the application presented by you from the President of the Adaminaby Agricultural Society for a site for a show and recreation ground, I have the honor to inform…

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