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Shows & fairs, 1885

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The Corowa Show

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 August 1885 · page 3

The ninth annual show of the Corowa Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held on Wednesday. The weather was excellent and the attendance of the residents in the district large. There were also many…

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Show Notes

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 August 1885 · page 2

Host Carns, of the "Royal," so folks say, made a good thing out of his show booth. If it was as good as his show luncheon he must be in a fair way to realise a fortune…

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 August 1885 · page 2

The ordinary monthly meeting of the [?] of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural [?] was held at the Royal Horel yesterday. Mr its occupied the chair, and following members [?]…

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The Moama Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s Show

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 August 1885 · page 3

The third annual show in connection with the above Society was held on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 11th and 12b instant, and was on the whole the most successful exhibition [?]since the inauguration of the…

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Rutherglen Agricultural Society

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 August 1885 · page 3

A MEETING of the committee of this society was held at the Council Chambers on the 18th inst. Present:--The President (Mr. W. Booth), vice-presidents Messrs. W. Graham and A. Hunter, and…

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Rural Notes. Sheep and Cattle Foe Show— and How to Prepare Them

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 August 1885 · page 9

Feed them by giving them all they will eat (of course taking care not to gorge them at first start), little at a time and often, and have the troughs well cleaned…

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Corowa Agricultural Society

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 28 August 1885 · page 2

A GENERAL meeting of members of the Corowa Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural Society was held at Carns' Royal Hotel on Wednesday morning. Mr. J. R…

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Lord Hartington on Fair Trade, London, August 30

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 September 1885 · page 14

The Marquis of Hartington, addressing his constituents in North Lancashire yesterday, denounced the fair trade movement and the principle of the compulsory division of land…

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The Sydney Show. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 September 1885 · page 4

The metropolitan exhibition of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales was opened to-day under very favorable auspices. There was a larger attendance than on any previous…

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Chiltern Show

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 September 1885 · page 3

CHILTERN put on the gain dress last Tuesday in honor of the coming in age of the local agricultural society. Twenty-one times has the annual show of stock and produce taken place under the…

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Rutherglen Agricultural Society

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 September 1885 · page 3

A LARGRLY-ATTENDED meeting of subscribers to the Ruthergien and Murray Valley Agricultural Society was held in the Council Chambers, Rutherglen, on Tuesday evening. The president, Mr. W…

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Albury & Border Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Society. Annual Exhibition. Wednesday and Thursday, 16Th and 17Th September

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 September 1885 · page 15

President: Mr. W. J. Lyne, M.L.A., Vice-Presidents: Messrs. W. Kiddin, M‘Martin, Dr. Andrews. Treasurer: Mr. D. J. Aberoromble Auditors: Messrs A. Phillips, Jun. H. Paine, Committee: Messrs. J. H…

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Albury Show Dinner

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 September 1885 · page 21

The annual dinner in connection with the Pastoral and Agricultural Show took place on knight of the 17th, at the new building m process of erection for Mr. M’Lennan’s drapery…

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 3

Referring to the decision of the judges appointed to examine, report upon and value the fleeces shorn from she exhibits entered for the Challenge price at the [?] show of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural…

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The Fair Trade Movement. London, September 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 October 1885 · page 14

The Earl of Dunraven, the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, in addressing a Conservative meeting at Stockport last night, advocated the taxation of all foreign produce…

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 October 1885 · page 2

The ordinary monthly meeting of the [?] Pastoral and Agricultural Society was l[?] Royal Hotel yesterday. The President [?] Mc[?]arland) occupied the chair, and the [?]…

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Sketcher. Our Carnival Racecourse. (Concluded.)

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 10 October 1885 · page 2

Well, as I have said the bill, as it now stands, is the best site on the ground. Standing upon its slope, the eye satches every foot of the course. And as I observe this, I…

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The Wentworth Show. Thursday, October 8

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 October 1885 · page 2

At the Wentworth Show the Tapio sheep took two first, ten seconds, six thirds, two champions, and two special prizes. Mr Croziet’s sheep took three first, two second, and two champion prizes…

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Sketcher. Our Carnival Racecourse

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 October 1885 · page 8

SOMETIME about the time that Admiral Nelson floored the combined fleets at Trafalgar, there met together in the means room of the barracks in Sydney certain military…

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Rutherglen Show

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 October 1885 · page 2

IN spite of the well-known proverb as to the fallacy of counting chickens before they are hatched, the members of the Rutherglen and Murray Valley…

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