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Shows & fairs, 1886

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Temora Annual Show

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 4 September 1886 · page 8

THE first Annual Show of the Temora Pastoral, Agricultural, Horticultural, and Industrial Association was opened on Wednesday under favourable circumstances…

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Late Telegrams. Temora Show. TEMORA

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 4 September 1886 · page 4

The weather for the show yesterday was capital, and there was a large attendance of people present. The awards in the horse section were as follows:—…

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Temora Annual Show

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 September 1886 · page 3

THE concluding day of the Temora Pastoral and Agricultural Association's Annual Show proved a great contrast to the opening day, as although in the early part of the forenoon…

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Deplorable Accident on the Show Ground

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 9 September 1886 · page 3

A most deplorable accident occurred upon the Show Ground yesterday, during the parade of Ladies' Hacks. A number of ladies were cantering round the enclosure,…

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THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser. Thursday, September 9, 1886. Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Twenty-second Annual Show. Wednesday, 8Th September, 1886

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 9 September 1886 · page 2

A BLEAK gusty day. The high wind struggling with the rain for supremacy and gaining it; at the same time drying the roads soddened by the previous night's rain. From…

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Albury Show. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Special Correspondent.) Albury

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 16 September 1886 · page 2

The annual exhibition of the Albury and Border Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horti[?]tural Society commenced to-day, and proved the most successful ever held un[?] the…

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Commercial, Pastoral, and Agricultural Society. (S[?] Morni[?] Herald

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1886 · page 3

MR. G. RANKEN returned yesterday from his trip north, undertaken on behalf of the newly formed Commercial, Pastoral, and Agricultural Association. He addressed meetings…

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Wagga Horticultural Society's Annual Show

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 21 October 1886 · page 2

THE annual Show of the above Association commenced at the Freemasons' Hall yesterday afternoon, and was fairly attended. Being privileged to enter, the hall before…

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The Flower Show

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 November 1886 · page 2

To attempt any full description of the Flower Show is impossible in this issue. There are so many lovely things to look at and to describe that we must postpone any longthoned notice of…

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The Flower Show

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 9 November 1886 · page 2

FOR the first time in the history of Gundagai there had been a flower show, and to say it was a success but indifferently gives one an idea of the results, both financially and as a…

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The Fancy Fair

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1886 · page 2

IT has been written by someone (we forget who) that "anticipation of a pleasure more enjoyable than the realisation of it" In the abstract, that may be true, but when we…

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The Fancy Fair

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 November 1886 · page 2

THE virtue of punctuality never had a greater reward than we obtained on Tuesday evening, for being half-an-hour before the announced time for the opening of the Fancy…

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Adelong News. the Flower Show

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 19 November 1886 · page 2

NOVEMBER 15.—The sole topic of interest here last week was the Flower Show, which was held on Thursday and Friday, in Hodgson's Hall, in aid of the Literary Institute; and the great…

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Exhibition of Merion Wool

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1886 · page 4

THOSE squatters who were in Sydney, and those of our merchants and citizens who take an interest in our great staple product, merino wool, had an opportunity on Tuesday…

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