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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1875

7 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 10 April 1875 · page 2

THE Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibtion of 1875 was opened at noon on Tuesday, by his Excellency the Governor, with considerable eclat…

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Intercolonial Exhibition

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 14 April 1875 · page 3

THERE have been large attendances daily at the Exhibition building. Messrs Chisholm Bros, Kippilaw, are exhibitors of washed merino wool,…

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Progress. Polly Prattle's Account of the Exhibition. Introduction

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 8 May 1875 · page 4

The progress of this Southern land, the Empress of the Sea! The home of nations yet to rise, the kingdom of the free!…

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Curious Show

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 16 June 1875 · page 4

OF all the various shows which add their attractions to those of the innumerable varieties of honey-bread there exhibited, the one called 'Hell'…

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The French Industrial Exhibition and Camellia Show

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 3

THE French Industrial Exhibition and Camellia Show opened to-day (Wednesday) in the Exhibition Buildings. Up to twelve o'clock exhibitors and…

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Historical, Descriptive, and Statistical Account of the Town and Police District of Queanbeyan and (In Part) the County of Murray. (Written and Published at the request of the Philadelphia International and Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition Commissioners, 1875.)

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 7 August 1875 · page 4

THE circular letter addressed by the Commissiners for the approaching Industrial Exhibitions at Melbourne (Victoria), and Philadelphia (U.S.), to…

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Yass Sheep Show

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 22 September 1875 · page 2

Messrs W. Davis and Andrew Cunningham are the only sheepowners residing in the Queanbeyan district who are exhibitors at the Sheep Show to be…

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