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Murray · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1890

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The Show Dinner

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 July 1890 · page 3

The show dinner was held at toe Australian Club Hotel, and was laid out in the best style by the caterer, Mr Finney. About sixty gentlemen sat down to a splendidly furnished table, and after full…

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Hay Agricultural Show

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 July 1890 · page 3

The show was opened on Thursday. There was a very good attendance. The weather was fine, but the ground was rather sloppy. There was a large display of machinery for farming…

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Show

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 July 1890 · page 4

The fourteenth annual show of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held on Thursday. The weather was beautifully fine, but the…

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The Late Show. (To the Editor of tit Riverine Grazier.)

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 July 1890 · page 2

SIR,—Now the Show carnival is over, I wish to make a few remarks with your permission. In the first place it is a mistake having races at the show time, and if…

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The Show Bread Exhibits. (To the Editor of the Riverine Grazier.)

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 July 1890 · page 2

Sir,—Kindly allow me a small space to comment on your remarks with regard to the staple article broad going out of fashion. This is not to be wondered at if treated as my…

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Original Correspondence. Mr Cumming's Show Dinner Speech. (To the Editor of the Riverine Grazier.)

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 July 1890 · page 2

SIR,—In your account of the speeches at the show dinner. I was pleased to notice that the Vice-President (Mr Ronald), and also Mr T. McFarland took exception to the…

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Albury Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 July 1890 · page 26

A meeting of committee was held on Wednesday; Mr. J. Grieve occupied the chair. The other members present were Messrs. C. Dight, E. Kernan, J. Day, C. J. Morton, J…

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Show Festivities

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 July 1890 · page 2

DURING show week the local caterers for public amusement will provide many various ways of passing the weary hours and spending the nimble shilling. First in…

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The Corowa Show

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 July 1890 · page 2

ONCE again the great event of the year, for Corowa, is close upon us. On the 6th and 7th August the Pastoral and Agricultural Society hold their fourteenth annual show…

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Riverina Pastoral and Agricultural Sheep Show

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 July 1890 · page 3

The judging in connection with the Riverina Pastoral and Agricultural Sheep Show at Jerilderie took place on Tuesday last. The squatter’s class was well represented, and there was been [?] throughout, the…

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The Hillston Show

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 July 1890 · page 2

We are requested to state in connection with the Hillston Show that sheep for exhibition must be penned before 6 p.m. on the Wednesday before the show. Show day is…

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Riverina Pastoral and Agricultural Sheep Show

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 July 1890 · page 4

The judging in connection with the Riverina Pastoral and Aricultural Sheep Show at Jerilderis took place on Tuesday last. The squatter's class was…

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Opening of the Mining Exhibition. London, July 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 August 1890 · page 19

The Mining Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, was opened to-day by Lord Thurlow, who, in his opening speech, made special reference to the excellence of the New…

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Open Column. the Late Show. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 August 1890 · page 3

In Thursday’s issue of the Chronicle a letter [?]“ Albert Hart ” passing his opinion on [?] of game at the late show, and as I was, [?] prize-taker in black red game (of which I feel…

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Corowa Agricultural Society's Banquet

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 August 1890 · page 4

THE annual banquet of the Agricultural Society was held in the Assembly rooms, Corowa, on Thursday evening Covers were laid for one hundred…

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Annual Show Ball

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 August 1890 · page 6

THE one great social event of the year in Corowa is the Show Ball, and yet, strange to say, visitors have almost a monopoly. It is lone of the few opportunities for…

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The Mining Exhibition. Visit of the Earl of Jersey and Lord Knutsford. London, July 31

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 August 1890 · page 18

The Earl of Jersey, the new Governor of New South Wales, accompanied by Lord Knutsford, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Sir Saul Samuel, the…

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The Corowa Pastoral and Agricultural Show

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 August 1890 · page 3

The fourteenth annual show of the Corowa Pastoral and Agricultural Society was opened on Wednesday. The sky looked dull and threatening, with a cold sharp wind, blowing all the horning…

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Show Dinner

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 12 August 1890 · page 2

The dinner in connection with the Show came off on Thursday night at the Royal Mail Hotel, the President (Mr John Armstrong) in the chair, Mr F. P. Hines in the…

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The Hillston Carnival. Hillston

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 12 August 1890 · page 2

For the past two months we have had nothing but fine days alternately with wet ones, and in consequence thee roads are almost impassible, and as a further result of this grave…

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