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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1878

6 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The Paris Exhibition. Paris, April 11

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 12 June 1878 · page 4

THE wide space once occupied by the Champ de Mars, where the garrison of Paris was passed in review amidst the plaudits of delighted nursemaids and the admiration of…

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Show of Sheep, Stallions, and Bulls

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 20 July 1878 · page 1

A SPECIAL meeting of the committee of the Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held on: Monday afternoon. The members present were Messrs. Rees Jones, H. Hall, J. K. Hume, R. A…

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Japan at the Paris Exhibition

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 14 August 1878 · page 4

No nation is a more interesting study than the Japanese in its advance towards modern civilization. It was one of the peoples most averse to the introduction of the European…

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Show of Sheep, Entire Horses, and Bulls at Yass

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 11 September 1878 · page 1

THE third sheep-show that has been held in Yass took place on Thursday under the auspices of the Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association, and not withstanding the fact that drenching rain continued…

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Albury Agricultural Show

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 21 September 1878 · page 4

THE annual show of the Albury and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held on Friday, in and near to the society's old grounds, the new site which, after much…

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Fair Play

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 19 October 1878 · page 2

In the Town and Country Journal of Saturday last paragraph appears under the heading of correspondence Queanbeyan denouncing the absence of the Police…

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