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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1873

4 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Yass Agricultural Show

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 20 February 1873 · page 4

DURING the week the good town of Yass has been alive and busy almost beyond precedent except at the bridge opening. First were the races on Monday and…

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The Intercolonial Exhibition

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 24 April 1873 · page 2

THIS grand representative collection of the industries of the colonies opens to-morrow, with appropriate ceremonies, which will comprise at least one feature distinct from the…

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The Intercolonial Exhibition. the Opening Day

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 1 May 1873 · page 4

THIS Exhibition, the fruit of long and anxious thought and labour on the part of the Agricultural Society of the colony was yesterday opened to the public; and…

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The Vienna Exhibition

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 10 July 1873 · page 2

The Exhibition at Vienna opened on May 1 with great ceremony. Upwards of 20,000 persons were under the dome, which is more than treble the size of St. Peter's at Rome,…

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