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Shows & fairs, 1871

11 stories in Murray's papers

The Late Wool Exhibition. [From Correspondent Town and Country Journal.]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 February 1871 · page 2

If the correspondence which the above has given rise to in the metropolitan press and the discussions of the committee appointed to revise the schedule for the next exhibition tend to anything, they do most certainly, to…

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Albury District Pastoral and Agricultural Show

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 4 March 1871 · page 2

UNTIL Wednesday last, three years had elapsed since the Albury Society held a Show, and this long interval has not been without its natural effect upon the character of the display just…

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Vine Disease. (From the Journal of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 11 March 1871 · page 3

INSTRUMENT USED FOR SULPHURING.—PRECAUTIONS NECESSARY, AND QUANTITY OF SULPHUR USED. “Of all the instruments and appliances…

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By Electric Telegraph. Mount Gambier Pastoral Show. April 3

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 April 1871 · page 2

Wool samples have been received from the flocks of Mr. [?] Jenkins, of the Upper [?] Judges here [?] excellent quality…

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Intercolonial Exhibition of 1871, Sydney. Awards for Wines

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 29 July 1871 · page 2

Class 236 —John Wyndham, Dalwood, madeira and while pineau, 1870, light white, 100 points, 1st prize; reisling, 1869, light white, 95 points, 2nd prize. J. T. Fallon, Albury; Verdelho, 1869, light wine, 90…

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Riverina Pastoral Society. List of Prizes Awarded at the Annual Show, Held at Jerilderie, on Thursday, 27Th July, 1871. (Communicated by the Secretary of the Association.) Section 1.—Merino Sheep Colonial-d[?]ed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 5 August 1871 · page 2

Judges: Thomas Cummins, Esq., Victoria H. Smith Esq., Victoria; assistant judges, W. Cummins, Esq., and Thomas Shan, Esq. CLASS 1—Silver Medal for the best two rams of any…

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Mudgee Pastoral and Agricultural Society. the Rleventh Exribition. (From the Western Post.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 August 1871 · page 4

The eleventh exhibition of the above society took place, on the Agricultural Ground on Thursday, the 27th ultimo, and the prize list, accompanied by a brief notice of the show,…

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Wagga Pastoral Show. Wagga Wagga

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 12 August 1871 · page 5

At the Pastoral Show, held yesterday, the [?]llowing were the principal prizes awarded :— Thorough-bred Horses.—Judges, Messrs. Burcher, A. A. Devlin, and George Greene…

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Open Column. the Late Pastoral Show at Hay To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 August 1871 · page 3

Sir,—In your last issue a [?] appeared from Mr. W. A. [?] of [?] referring to the late show of the Hay Pastoral Association. While the writer holde up the show with the one hand and pats the chairman…

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Wagga Pastoral Show. 9Th August. Prizes for Sheep and Cattle Exhibits. Cattle—short [?] (Judges: Messrs. A. Watson, W. Dargin, and J. Buckley)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 August 1871 · page 2

Section I—For the best shorthorn bull of any age; prize, silver cup, value, 5 [?] Five exhibits—[?] Mr M‘Kinnon’s Marquis of Lorne by Count Lobean [?] Judith 2nd (dam of…

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Opening of the Inter-colonial Exhibition. [Abridged From the Empire.]

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 2 September 1871 · page 4

The Metropolitan Exhibition of 1871 was opened at noon on Monday, 21st August, by His Excellency Earl Belmore, President of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales,…

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