A Few Remarks on the Recent Show
The good people of the Berrima district look upon their annual show as the event of the year. Well so it is, but it might be more so. Some well-meaning, yet…
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Shows & fairs, 1887
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Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition
THE public meeting advertised to be held in the Bowral School of Arts on Tuesduy night last did not take place. Rain fell so heavily during the evening, that it was quite out of the question to…
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ENTRIES for the Mittagong Fruit and Flower Show close to-day, the 16th instant. The show will open in Canterbury Hall, Mittagong, on Tuesday next, the 19th instant, and will remain open for two days…
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It is said that to deserve success is greater than to achieve it. In its fruit and flower show, however, Mittagong did both. The show was held in the Canterbury Hall on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Justice and Fair Play. to the Editor of the Bowral Free Press
SIR,—I was not at all surprised to notice that after so much forbearance on your part, you have at last deemed it necessary to take up the weapons of self defence, and fight your own cause so manfully, and,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Justice and Fair Play. to the Editor of Teh Bowral Free Press
SIR.—I am not in the habit of answering anonymous letters; but "Fairplay's" letter, inserted in your last-issue, contains such a monstrous distortion of facts, in reference. to the management of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mittagong Fruit and Flower Show. to the Editor of the Bowral Free Press
SIR,—As your paper will be the first that will be published in this district this week, I take the liberty through your colunns to immediately contradict a false statement which is inserted in the columns of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Skating Carnival
THE popularity which roller-skating or rinking has attained in Bowral has induced the members of the skating club to organise a farney dress carnival, to be held in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Berrima District Agricultural Society
THE usual monthly committee meeting of the above society was held in the school of arts, Bowral, on Monday afternoon last. There were present Messrs. F. R. Wilshire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Picton Agricultural Society
THE annual meeting of the Picton Agricultural Society was held on Friday week. The report showed that the last show was successful and that there was a sum of £70 to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bowral Free Press. Do [?] adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Saturday, October 1, 1887. Skating Carnival
THE above event took place in the School of Arts on Tuesday last, and according to popular opinion it was a success. Its decided novelty attracted considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Centennial Show
THE Agricultural Society of New South Wales intend holding a centennial show, in January next, 1888, of live stock, pastoral and agricultural produce, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bowral Horticultural and Industrial Show
A COMMITTEE meeting was held in the School of Arts on Tuesday evening last. There was a full attendance; and after animated discussion the meeting was adjourned to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robertson Agricultural Society
THE above society have fixed upon Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 29 and March 1, 1888, for its annual show. Mr. A. E. Cordeaux has been elected secretary of the society; and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Centenary Fair at Mittagong
THE annual bazaar in connection with St. Stephen's is one of the institutions of Mittagong; and although this year it was dignified by the name, "Juvenile Centenary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wild Flower. Rose, and Pansy Show
THE continuous rain on Wednesday last was a sufficient reason to keep visitors away from the Wild Flower, Rose, and Pansy Show. The attendance was small; consequently the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poetry. Ballade of Aucassin. (Suggested by a ballade of "The Fair White Feet of Nicolette.")
Where smooth the Southern waters run Through sighing reeds and poplars gray, Beneath a veiled soft Southern sun We wandered out of Yesterday;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters to the Editor. The Late Rose and Pansy Show
SIR, — Will you allow me to correct a misstatement that occurs in your issue of the 12th instant?…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Centenary Fair at Moss Vale
A CENTENARY fair was opened in the Oddfellows' Hall, Moss Vale, on Thursday last, in aid of renovating the Presbyterian Manse. At 3 o'clock Miss Stockall played selections…
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