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Shows & fairs, 1885

16 stories in New England's papers

Exhibition of Women's Industries

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1885 · page 2

ARRANGEMENTS are in progress for holding an exhibition of women's industries at Bristol early next year. The idea of the promoters…

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The Picnic on the Show Ground

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 January 1885 · page 2

On Wednesday the Ministerial party wore entertained at a picnic. Consequent upon the uncertain state of the weather, the committee determined to bring the affair off on the show ground…

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A Fair of Mashers

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 January 1885 · page 3

THE Melbourne Age of Monday week says : -- Shortly after 11 o'clock on Saturday night, by the train from Sydney, there arrived in custody of the police two young men, said to have aristocratic…

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The Glen Innes Show

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 February 1885 · page 2

THE ninth annual exhibition of the Pastoral, Agricultural, and Mining Association of Central New England is a thing of the past. Postponed on account of the inclement weather, the show…

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Inverell Show. Inverell, 7.10. P.m

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 March 1885 · page 4

The weather has cleared beautifully fine, and our show promises to be a success. Entries are numerous and representative, and visitors are already arriving. A good…

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Inverell Pastoral and Agricultural Association's Show

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1885 · page 2

THE ninth annual exhibition under the auspices of the above society came off on the Show Ground Last Thursday and Friday. Wednesday and Thursday were the days originally intended, but owing…

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Local & General News. New England Stock Show

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 March 1885 · page 2

THE stock-owners in this district were invited by advertisement to meet on Friday morning at Tattersall's Hotel to consider the resolutions which have been…

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War, or a Fair Boundary

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 June 1885 · page 3

Events must rapidly bring us to a crisis, says the London TELEGRAPH, and, supposing no abrupt or violent solution arrive, the question will apparently end in the simple alter…

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Uralla & District. Uralla, July 14,1885. Exhibition

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 17 July 1885 · page 8

AN exhibition specially designed for the display of Colonial and Indian products, raw and manufactured, is to be held in London in May, 1866. As stated in the…

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The Singleton Show. [By Telegraph.] Singleton

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1885 · page 3

THE Secretary of the Northern Agricultural Association has just completed posting up the entries for the Aunual Show, to he held on the 26th and 27th instant,…

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The Coming Carnival. a Glance at Farmer and Company's, Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 September 1885 · page 5

During the next few weeks many hundreds of people from all parts of New South Wales and Queensland will be on a visit to Sydney during the Carnival weeks. During the present month the…

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Metropolitan Memos. Sydney, Wednesday. Late Agericultural Show

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 September 1885 · page 2

THE Agricultural Show has, of course, attracted a large number of visitors, and many of the exhibits were excellent. Still, in proportion to the population of…

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The Sydney Show. Instantaneous Power for All Purposes

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 September 1885 · page 4

There was no exhibit at the recent successful Sydney show which attracted more attention, from city as well as country people, than that of the New Omega gas machine, which was kept in constant…

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He Wanted Fair Play

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 October 1885 · page 3

IT was in 1864, down in front of Grant's army, and I was a mile or so outside of the Union pickets, having been out on a scout. In making my way back I had been followed pretty closely…

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The Victorian Racing Carnival

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 November 1885 · page 4

All the world and his wife are in Melbourne, looking after that racing orgy, which sends the entire colonies half wild with excitement for a period, and causes we know not how much money to change…

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Free-trade or Fair-trade

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 November 1885 · page 5

Said Mr. Gladstone several years ago :--" A man slaps me on the cheek, thereupon I slap myself on the other cheek; that is the analogue of fair-trade." This is a line for those who advocate a policy of…

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