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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1900

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The Kiandra Show Carnival Phenomenal Fall

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 23 July 1900 · page 2

Office Bearers:— Patron, Lord Beauchamp President: Mr. J. Pattison; Vice-President Sir W. Lyne Hon. J. L. Fegan Messrs. G…

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The Kiandra Snow Snow Carnival

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 28 July 1900 · page 6

THE annual snow-shoe races, in connection with the Kiandra Club were contested on Friday and Saturday last. A message from Kiandra, dated Thursday,…

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Ugliest Baste in the Show

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 11 August 1900 · page 10

An amusing incident was wit[?]essed in a menagarie the other day. Here and there between the [?] a number of the well known trick mirrors were played…

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Ugliest Baste in the Show

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 17 August 1900 · page 3

An amusing incident was witnessed in a menagerie the other day. Here and there between the cages a number of the well known trick mirrors were placed. An…

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Panie at the Paris Exhibition

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 20 August 1900 · page 2

A panie occured on the bridge at the Paris Exhibitions. The crush of people broke the balustrade and 20 were injured…

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Skating Carnival

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 31 August 1900 · page 2

The Plain and Fancy Dress Skating Carnival as advertised took place at the Drill Hall, Bombals Street, Cooma, on Tuesday evening, and as it is a considerable…

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The Upside=Down House at the Paris Fair

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 7 September 1900 · page 4

"The strangest thing in the Paris Exposition Midway is the "upside-down house," said a guest at one of the hotels, who has just returned after…

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The Melbourne Agricultural Show

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 10 September 1900 · page 2

The Agricultural Show opened on Saturday at Melbourne, but the day was wet and this interfered considerably with the exhibition…

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She Albury Show. SYDNEY

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 14 September 1900 · page 2

It was showery weather yesterday for the Albury Show, and the crowd was much smaller than was expected…

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[?] Fate of Paris Exhibition

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 1 October 1900 · page 3

The time has now some [?] can no loner conceal from the world the failure of her great exhibition…

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Federal champion dog show

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 19 October 1900 · page 2

The Federal Champion dog show organised by Coast Tice opened yesterday…

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Fair Day's Work

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 7 December 1900 · page 4

The Comptroller-General of the post office at Calcutta recently issued a circular, in which he stated under a large number of heads the amount of work which a clerk was…

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Fair Day's Work

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 15 December 1900 · page 9

The Comptroller-General of the post office at Calcutta recently issued a circular, in which he stated under a large number of heads the amount of work which a clerk was…

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LONDON, Monday. Paris Exhibition de[?]

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 17 December 1900 · page 2

Accounts in connection with [?] paris Exhibition show a [?] of £79,000…

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The Fancy Fair

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 28 December 1900 · page 2

The much looked forward to Fancy Fair in connection with the Church of England eventuated in Mr. S. Coote's fruit shop building in May be Street on…

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