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Southern Highlands · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1889

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Berry Agricultural Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 16 February 1889 · page 2

THE sixth annual exhibition of the Berry Agricultural Society wag opened last Wednesday with fine, though hot, weather. The entries numbered about 2600. The…

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Robertson Agricultural Society

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 19 February 1889 · page 3

THE executive committee of the above held their usual monthly meeting on Thursday evening in the School of Arts, there being present the President (Mr. T. [?] J.P.)…

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Fruit and Flower Show

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 19 February 1889 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the committee of the Horticultural Society was held in the School of Arts, Mittagong, on Saturday, evening. Dr. Middleton, vice-president took the chair…

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The Shoalhaven Agricultural Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 23 February 1889 · page 2

The Shoalhaven Agricultural and Horticultural Association's fifteenth annual Show was formally opened by Mr. John Monaghan, J. P., president of the Association. The…

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WHOSE? (To a pair of slippers in the Egyptian Exhibition.)

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 6 March 1889 · page 2

Tiny slippers of gold and green, Tied with a mouldering golden cord! What pretty feet they must have been When Cresar Augustus wan Egypt's lord!…

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Robertson Agricultural Society. Ninth Annual Show

The Southern Mail · Friday 8 March 1889 · page 2

PRESIDENT: [?] Esq., J.P. Vice-Presidents: W. Moses, Esq., J.P. James Alcorn, Esq., J.P. Treasurer: W. R. Hindmarsh, Jun., Esq. Hon. Secretary: A. E. Cordeaux, Esq. Committee:…

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Berrima District Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 9 March 1889 · page 2

WE take the last opportunity of reminding intending exhibitors at the approaching show of the Berrima District Agricultural Society that entries positively close with the secretary, Mr. T. Graham,…

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At the Robertson Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 9 March 1889 · page 3

THE ninth annual Show of the Robertson Agricultural Society was opened on Wednesday last. The heat of the day was fierce, a tropical sun scorched all day…

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Camden, Agricultural Society's: Shaw

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 2

The show opened under favorable circumstances on Wednesday last. The attendance was large, and arrange meats; for the show were complete, and not a single hitch…

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The Bowral Free Press. Do as adversries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink at friends. Saturday, March 23, 1889. Berrima District Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 23 March 1889 · page 2

THE Berrima District Agricultural, Hortioncultural, and Industrial Society held its sixth annual show on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of the present week. No previous show of the society was held…

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The Goulburn Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 27 March 1889 · page 1

ENTRIES for the forthcoming agricultural show closed on Thursday last, with a total of about 1000. There are large entries in the horse sections, and there will be good…

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The Accident at the Moss Vale Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 27 March 1889 · page 4

We regret to announce that Mr. Charles McGlinchy, who was thrown from Mr. Lindsay's horse whilst jumping over the hurdles at the Moss Vale Show last…

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Berrima District Agricultural Society

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 30 March 1889 · page 2

A COMMITTEE meeting of the above society has been convened by advertisement for next Monday afternoon at 3.30, to be held at Nicholls' Hotel, Moss Vale. Prizes awarded at the recent show will be…

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Fair Exchanges

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 30 March 1889 · page 2

AT Moss Vale on Wednesday last the license of the Commercial Hotel, Moss Vale, was transferred from H. Taylor to Mrs. Ellen Houston. The license of the Commercial Hotel, Mittagong, was…

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The Goulburn Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 30 March 1889 · page 2

THE annual exhibition of the Goulburn A., P., and H. Society commenced on Wednesday. The weather was fine, and the attendance numered about 4000. On the whole the show was successful, but there are…

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At the Berrima District Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 30 March 1889 · page 2

IF there is one period of the year more than another when Moss Vale is brought immediately under public notice, it is during the time of the Annual Show. This affair is a kind of miniature Cup in…

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Getting Home From the Show. (By Rail.)

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 30 March 1889 · page 2

DEEP down in the innermost recesses of our railway management there was always hidden a gloomy, awful mystery. And notwithstanding recent reformations,…

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Picton Show Postponed

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 3 April 1889 · page 1

A TELEGRAM came to hand yesterday evening from the secretary of the Picton Show, stating that in consequence of the very heavy rain the show had been postponed till the 11th inst…

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The Paris Exhibition

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 6 April 1889 · page 4

PARIS will be brilliantly illuminated on the occasion of the opening of the International Exhibition, on May 5. There will be grand displays of fireworks, a great torch-light procession, in which 15,000…

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Agricultural Implements at the Paris Exhibition

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 6 April 1889 · page 1

ENGLISH makers of agricultural implements and machines will be interested in knowing that at the Paris Universal Exhibition this year agricultural appliances will be arranged in the following…

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