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Shows & fairs, 1883

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Sketcher. A Fair Enthusiast

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 5 July 1883 · page 2

ITALIANS have generally been credited with a strong aversion to Richard Wagner, the great luminary of the musical world, so recently and suddenly eclipsed. Their musical traditions…

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The Amsterdam Exhibition

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 4

THE International Exhibition at Amsterdam will take several weeks before it is p[?] in order. Many of the courts are will bare, and the rivers are…

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Calcutta Exhibition

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 21 July 1883 · page 2

MR. DOW informs us that the question of having this district represented at the Calcutta Exhibition has not been allowed to rest, as the following correspondence will…

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London International Fisheries' Exhibition

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 9 August 1883 · page 4

THE foreign, and Scotch fishwives who took part in the opening proceedings of the Fisheries Exhibition on Saturday, the 12th, were, on Sunday afternoon received by the…

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A Puppet Show

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 11 August 1883 · page 4

ONE of the most original and charming of the innumerable festive gatherings of the moment is the theatrical performance given by…

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The Sydney Agricultural Show

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 12 September 1883 · page 2

IT must have been a source of regret to many whose interest and sympathies were bound up in the agricultural and pastoral prosperity of this colony, that the parent…

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The S. A. and H. Association

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 25 October 1883 · page 2

The new committee held their fourth meeting on Wednesday last, and completed the revision of the Prize List and By-Laws for the Tenth Annual Exhibition, to be held in the old…

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In-door Games. the Wild-beast Show

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 19 December 1883 · page 1

A screen must be placed at the end of the room; behind it is placed a cheval glass and a light. The showman stands before the scene and offers to exhibit his wild animals to any person who will…

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School Exhibition

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 22 December 1883 · page 2

TWELVEMONTHS ago Mr. James Harris came from Moruya, not without the encouragement derivable from promises of support, but without obtaining a…

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The Fair Maid of Cherbury

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 29 December 1883 · page 2

"Only one more voyage, Rachel." "Oh, but coffin-ships, Harry! The word haunts me!" "But only one more run, my bouny bird…

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