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Shows & fairs, 1886

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Albury and Border Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Society. Annual Show. Wednesday and Thursday, September 15 and 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 September 1886 · page 17

President :Mr. Wm Kiddle Vice-Presl[?] Messrs John Grieve, C. H. Douglas, end Joseph Dunn. Treasurer: Mr. D. J. Abercromb[?]e. Auditors: Messrs. John a. Paine and Arthur Phillips…

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Deniliquin: Pastoral and Agricultural Society. Award of the Challenge Prizes. Melbourne. Friday, September 17

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 September 1886 · page 2

The Challenge prizes in connection with the late Show have been awarded as follows:—First Challenge Prize, for which L100 was offered, was finally won by F. L. Parker, at Quiamong, with a fleece of the…

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Chiltern Agricultural Society

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 September 1886 · page 4

A MEETING of the above Society was held a Burke's Hotel de Paris, on Saturday, September 18th. Present; Mr. Strickland (chairman), and…

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Albury Show Sale

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 September 1886 · page 17

Messrs. CHAS. L. Griffith and Co. report holding a sale on the Albury show. ground [?] on Friday, 17th ult[?], when they sold a draft of stud [?] for Mr. Joseph Mack, Bury Bank,…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 October 1886 · page 4

The committee of this society held a meeting on Wednesday morning. Dr. Andrews occupied the chair. The other members present were Messrs. J. Day, Zweck, W. Frew, Grieve,…

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Germanton Show Ball

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 October 1886 · page 27

The Germanton Show Ball came off on Thursday evening, 23rd ult., and proved the most successful ever held in the district. The stewards had arranged to have it optional…

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The Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition. London, September 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 October 1886 · page 18

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has written a letter in reply to the invitation from the colonies to visit Australia on the occasion of the Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition…

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Poultry at the Albuy Show

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 October 1886 · page 12

Visitors to the Albury Show who were interested in the poultry classes could not fail to be favorably impressed with the excellence of the provision made for the…

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The Colonial and Indian Exhibition. Neglect of the Colonial Wine Industry. Indignation of the of Prince Wales. [By Submarine Cable.] London, September 23

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 October 1886 · page 18

The Prince of Wales is much displeased at the revelations in The Times as to the neglect of the colonial wine industry at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, and His Royal…

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The Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition. London, October 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 October 1886 · page 18

Applications have been already received for 17,000 square feet of space at the Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition. LONDON, October 3…

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The Colonial and Indian Exhibition. the Wine Grievance. [By Submarine Cable.] London, September 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 October 1886 · page 18

Mr. George Collins Levey has forwarded a report to the committee appointed by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to inquire into the grievances with respect to the…

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 October 1886 · page 3

The Annual General meeting of the members of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held at the Australian Club Hotel, yesterday. Mr R. W. Franks (President), occupied the chair, and the…

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The Rutherglen Show

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 October 1886 · page 2

BEFORE the next issue of this journal goes to the press the seventh annual show of the Rutherglen and Murray District Agricultural Society will be over…

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The Colonial and Indian Exhibition. London, October 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 October 1886 · page 18

Thirty hogsheads of Victorian wine at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition have been found to be in a state of fermentation. Sir Graham Berry, the agent-general for…

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Australian Wines at the Colonial Exhibition. the Complaints of the Exhibitors

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 October 1886 · page 5

AMONG the passengers by the Massilia which arrived in Melbourne on Saturday, was Mr. G. F. Morris, of the firm of G. F. Morris and Sons,…

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The Cake Fair

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 October 1886 · page 2

The Cake Fair, a new innovation at Deniliquin for charitable purposes, was opened yesterday afternoon at Laverstock, the residence of Dr. Noyes, and although a limited success was anticipated from the beginning by…

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Corowa Agricultural Society

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 October 1886 · page 3

A SPECIAL general meeting of members of the Corowa Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Society, convened for the purpose of considering the removal of…

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The Rutherglen Show

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 October 1886 · page 3

IT was a good omen for the success of the Rutherglen Show that for a fall fortnight before the day everyone was discussing the weather prospects of…

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The Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition. London, October 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 October 1886 · page 18

Mr. George Collins Levey is at present visiting Berlin, Brussels, and Paris, in the interests of the South Australian Government, in order to secure exhibits for the Adelaide Jubilee…

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The Colonial and Indian Exhibition. London, October 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 October 1886 · page 18

It is intended to close the Colonial and Indian Exhibition without a ceremony. The cist if re-opening New South Wales Court in the Exhibition as part of the Imperial…

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