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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1879

11 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

International Exhibition Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 8 March 1879 · page 2

Preparatory to the meeting convened for Thursday next, we purpose publishing in our next issue the substance of the circular and general regulations accompanying, forwarded…

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Sydney International Exhibition. Public Meeting at Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 2

ON Thursday afternoon, pursuant to advertisement, several gentlemen assembled at the court house, Queanbeyan, to consider the invitation of the International Exhibition…

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Strike at the Exhibition

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 26 April 1879 · page 3

WE (Evening News) have to report a serious strike at the Exhibition but it is satisfactory to know that the same article which records the…

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[The following important telegrams were issued as Extraordinary to our town and in some cases, to country subscribers, last Saturday.] The International Exhibition. SYDNEY. Friday night

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 11 June 1879 · page 4

THE south-west quarter of the Exhibition building, assigned to Europe, is now completed, and the decorations will be finished in a few days…

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[The following important telegrams were issued as Extraordinaries to our town and, in some cases, to country subscribers, last Saturday.] The International Exhibition. SYDNEY, Friday night

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 18 June 1879 · page 4

A TELEGRAM has been received asking for the reservation of four thousand feet of space for Japan, and stating that a Commissioner has been appointed and will…

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The International Exhibition. (Per Greville's Telegram Company) SYDNEY, 3.35 p.m

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 21 June 1879 · page 2

A VERY large number of exhibits from Austria are arriving via Trieste per P. and O. mail steamer Avoca, consisting of wine, beer, pictures, statues, handsome…

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The International Exhibition. (Per Greville's Telegram Company) SYDNEY, Friday night

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 2 July 1879 · page 4

EXHIBITS are still arriving in large numbers, and are being stored in the finished portion of the building and at Mort's. The south-cast portion of the basement…

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Sydney Initernational Exhibition. (Per Greville's Telegram Company) SYDNEY, Friday Night

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 16 July 1879 · page 2

THE Exhibition building is progressing very satisfactorily. The interior decorations on the ground floor are nearly completed. The Machinery Hall will be…

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Sydney Initernational Exhibition. (Per Greville's Telegram Company)

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 30 July 1879 · page 2

THE Sydney International Exhibition building is rapidly approaching completion and the large dome will be finished in a few days…

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Sydney International Exhibition. (Per Greville's Telegram Company) Friday Night

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 9 August 1879 · page 2

AT a meeting of the Commissioners held this afternoon, the date of the opening of the Sydney International Exhibition was fixed for Wednesday,…

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Sheep Shearing at the Exhibition

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 15 October 1879 · page 4

THE competitive sheep shearing, post poned from Thursday last, look place, in the agricultural hall at the Exhibition, on Friday, commencing at noon. There were 19…

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