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Shows & fairs, 1874

14 stories in Riverina's papers

National Agricultural Society. (From the Argus.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 25 February 1874 · page 3

A meeting of the council of the National Agricultural Society of Victoria was held on Friday. Present—Mr. M'Graw (in the chair), and Messrs. J. Donaldson, A. P. Rudd, A…

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The Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition. (Frow the S. M. Herald.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 18 April 1874 · page 3

The opening day of the Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition could not have been finer. The effect of a sunny blithe atmosphere is uumistakable on such an event as an Agricultural Show. Faces all reflect…

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The Sydney Corporation and the Exhibition Building

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1874 · page 6

When the Municipal Council of Sydney first mooted the point that they ought to receive help from the public treasury towards extinguishing the debt into which they had…

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The Liverpool Plains Pastoral Show

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 13 May 1874 · page 6

As an exhibition, there can be no doubt expressed of the present one being a very great success. The exhibitors were numerous ; in every class that the resources of the district…

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Fine Arts Exhibition

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 11 July 1874 · page 6

The Fine Arts Exhibition at Paris, just on the eve of opening, is understood to be annually full, comprising no fewer than 11,552 paintings, and 3657 exhibits in the statuary…

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Riverine Pastoral Society. Annual Show of Stock. [Specially Reported by Telegrams.]

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 25 July 1874 · page 2

The annual Show of cattle, sheep, and horses, in connection with the Riverine Pastoral Society, took place at Jerilderie on Thursday. The report of our special…

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Yours, &c., a Member M.P.A. Wagga Wagga, July 28, 1874. Mudgee Pastoral and Agricultural Society. (From the S. M. Herald.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 29 July 1874 · page 3

The fourteenth Exhibition of the Mudgee Pastoral and Agricultural Society was opened on Wednesday last. It was a great success. The wearher was fine, and about 1000 persons were in attendance…

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The Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 5 August 1874 · page 4

The following letter, by Mr. Jules Joubert, secretary of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales, upon this subject, we extract from the Argus:—…

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Death As a Raree Show

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 15 August 1874 · page 6

The instinct which makes people flock to feats and exhibitions dangerous to human life is as old as human nature, and seems likely to last as long. Modern civilisation…

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Burrangong Pastoral and Ag[?] Cultural Association Show

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 15 August 1874 · page 2

The annual Show of this Association was held at Young on Thursday, and was in every respect highly successful, the show of sheep being particularly good. The weather was…

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Burrangong Pastoral Show. Messrs. Brock and Fosbery's Sale

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 26 August 1874 · page 3

Our Show sales commenced on Friday, the 14th instant, at about 11 o'clock, and were opened by Mr. A. G. Finlay. The bulls submitted were of a very superior description, but did not command prices that…

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The Pastoral Show

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 5 September 1874 · page 2

The tenth Annual Show of Stock in connexion with the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association was held on Wednesday. As the time approached for the Exhibition, no…

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The Cattle Sales at the Melbourne Show Yards

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 3

The sale of cattle in connection with the National Agricultural Society Show, was held on the third day of the exhibition. There was a large attendance of buyers, and most of the animals catalogued brought…

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A Barmaid Show

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 1

The Globe gives the following particulars of a Barmaid show held recently at the North Woolwich garde[?]s: —"With five o'clock, however, came…

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