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Riverina · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1880

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Public Women. (Vanity Fair.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1880 · page 3

WORTHY aldermen and eminent counsel have been in paroxysms of indignation over the wretched creature who has been charged with publishing libels on…

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The Lord Mayor's Show. (European Mail.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1880 · page 1

THE Lord Mayor's show was this year distinguished oddly from most or all of its predecessors. The pageantry of the day has hitherto been the sole public…

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International Wool Show. (Echo.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1880 · page 3

THE judges in the wool section, after a long rest, assembled on Saturday afternoon to complete their labours, and before dusk succeeded in working through the long wool and…

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Notes From the Scientific American. the Dominion Exhibition

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1880 · page 1

The first Dominion Exhibition was formally opened by the Governor General at Ottawa, Canada, on Soptember 23, with a large attendance…

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The Horse Show. (Echo.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 27 January 1880 · page 3

ONE of the most interesting shows that have taken place in connection with the Exhibition was opened on last Friday. Wool and wheat shows are attractive to but comparatively few…

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Kiama Agricultural Association Show. (Echo.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1880 · page 3

THE annual show of tho Kiama Association, which opened on Wednesday morning, was considerably marred by tho irregular dispatch of the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company's…

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The French Commissioner and the Exhibition

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 6

IN answer to the circular issued by the Commissioners of the International Exhibition, asking foreign and Intercolonial Commissioners to keep their exhibits on view till…

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Tumut News. Agricultural and Pastoral Show

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1880 · page 2

The weather on Wednesday morning, the 10th instant, were rather a doubtful look, but one's fears on this score proved groundless; the day was dull, but not hot. The attendance was not…

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Bombala Agricultural Show

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 March 1880 · page 3

The Bombala Agricultural Society's show opened on Tuesday. The attendance (says a telegram to the S. M. Herald), was considerable and the show altogether very successful…

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Exhibition Prize Cantata. Victorian International Exhibition

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1880 · page 4

To the following poem has been awarded the prize for the inaugural cantata for the International Exhibition. The author is Mr. J. W. Meaden:—…

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The Horticultural Show

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 8 April 1880 · page 3

THE autumn show of the Horticultural Association was opened yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Preparations for the show had been going on the whole of tho day…

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Closing of the Exhibition. (Echo.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 22 April 1880 · page 2

The official coremony in connection with the last scene of the Exhbition took place on Tuesday morning in the Garden Palace, in the presence of a considerable number of persons,…

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Sale of Exhibition Wools

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 4 May 1880 · page 2

By Messrs. Mort and Co.—Greasy: On account of E. and A. Bowman, exhibit No. 2 at 13d, No. 38 at 14d, No. 41 at 11½d, Fo. 42 at l5½d; A. and W. Busby, No. 3 at 13½d, No…

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Scene in the Exhibition

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 7 May 1880 · page 2

A few weeks ago we alluded to troubles that had occurred, and were likely to recur, in connection with the disposal of exhibits in a certain foreign court. Recently there took place in the…

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The Mudgee Pastoral and Agricultural Show

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 22 May 1880 · page 2

ABOVE 700 persons were present at the show on Wednesday, including a large number of visitors from a distance, many from hundreds of miles away. The exhibits of sheep were…

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Disgusting Exhibition

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 28 May 1880 · page 4

Boston, Mass, February 6. 1880.—One of the most disgraceful exhibitions ever witnessed in a church in a city was given to-night in the Chamber-street Presbyterian Church, when…

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Hay Pastoral Society's Show

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 20 July 1880 · page 4

THE Pastoral Society's Show was held on Wednesday last. The following are the awards:- SECTION I—HORSES…

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Grenfell Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Association. Annual Exhibition. (Abridged from the Grenfell Record.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 17 August 1880 · page 3

THURSDAY last, the day appointed for the holding of the above show, turned out better than had been anticipated, and the weather, which during the preceding days had been as…

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Singleton Agricultural and Horticultural Show. Singleton

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1880 · page 3

The Show opened to-day, and was well attended; over £48 being taken at the gate, or 20 per cent. more than last year. The flags were half-mast high in consequence of…

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THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser Thursday, September 9, 1880. Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association. Sixteenth Annual Show

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 9 September 1880 · page 2

A CLOUDED moru ushered in the day upon which was to be held the sixteenth annual show of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association. The past season has been one fraught…

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