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Southern Highlands · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1891

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The Wild West Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 7 January 1891 · page 3

THE announcement that Texas Jack and the Wild West Show would visit Bowral naturally caused some excitement in town and their arrival was looked forward to with…

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Punch and Judy Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 21 February 1891 · page 2

Host of as can remember with pleasure the visits paid in our juvenile days to our old friends "Punch and Judy," and we have not the slightest doubt that even now in our more mature age we could not…

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The Robertson Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 4 March 1891 · page 2

THE Robertson annual show takes place to-day and to-morrow, and we are informed promises to be a great deal more successful than any previously hold under the auspices of the society…

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The Camden Show.—Excursion Tickets

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 4 March 1891 · page 2

IN connection with, the Camden show to beheld to-day and Thursday, ample arrangements have been made for the accomodation of intending, visitors. Tickets at holiday excursion, fares…

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Camden Agricultural Society

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 March 1891 · page 3

THE sixth annal show of the Gamden Agricultural Society was opened last Wednesday with fine dry but very warm weather. The special train which left Sydney at 9 a.m. was…

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The Bowral Free Press. Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Saturday March 7, 1891. Robertson Show. a Successful Exhibition

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 March 1891 · page 2

THE eleventh animal show held under the suspices of the Robertson Agricultural Society took place on the nicely arranged grounds of the club on Wednesday and…

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The Bowral Free Press. Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Wednesday, Mar. 11, 1891. Robertson Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 11 March 1891 · page 2

WANT of space and a desire to give our readers a variety of news prevented us from giving in our last issue a complete description of the exhibits in the various sections at…

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The Bowral Free Press. Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as-friends. Saturday, March 14, 1891 the Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 2

THERE is perhaps no event in the district which attracts more attention or excites more interest than the show, and-its advent each year is looked forward to with pleasurable anticipations by persons in…

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The Late Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 18 March 1891 · page 4

THE eighth annual show, of the Berrima District A. H. and I. Society, particulars concerning the first two days of which appeared in our last issue, was…

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The Bowral Free Press. Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Saturday, March 21, 1891. Mittagong Horticultural Society. Fourth Annual Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 2

THE fourth annual exhibition held under the auspices of the Mittagong and District Horticultural Society took place on Thursday and Friday last, and proved from every point…

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New South Wales Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 28 March 1891 · page 2

THE annual exhibition of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales was opened at Moore Park on Wednesday last, under more than usually favourable auspices…

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The Bathurst Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 2

AT the Bathurst Agricultural Society's annual show held during the present week, Mr. Robert Beer's bay horse Jack was awarded first prize for best weight carrying hackney…

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Moss Vale Licensing Court. Wednesday, April 8th. BEFORE Messrs. Wilshire P.M., J. A. Badgery, and H. E. Kater, Js.P. Breach of the Licensing Act

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 2

H. B. Bond, of the Grand Hotel, pleaded guilty, through his solicitor, Mr. Gale, to having sold liquor on his licensed premises after hours on the night of the 24th March…

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Marulan Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 2

ON Tuesday next the sixth annual show of the Marulan P.,A., H. and I. Society will be held on the society's well-appointed grounds at Marulan. The exhibition at…

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The Juvenile Industrial Exhibition by Tourist

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 1

IT has been remarked that, during Easter week Sydney received a fair share of country visitors. Many of them relate their experience of the difficulty of suiting their…

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Marulan Show. a Successful Exhibition

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 2

THE committee and the members generally of the Marulan P. A. H. and I. Society have every reason to be proud of the undoubted success which attended the Sixth Annual Show held tinder the…

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Open Column. Show Chrysanthemums

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 25 April 1891 · page 3

To many interested in floriculture for house and garden decorations, a few hints upon the culture of the most popular of the Autumn flowers may be interesting. The enormous size to which this…

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The Chrysanthewium Show. From a Sydney Correspondent

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 2

THE horticultural event of the season, the annual Chrysantha[?]m Show, is now a thing of the past, and per hard-working enthusiasts in floriculture have again retired from the showroom strengthened…

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Carnival at the Association Hall

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 27 May 1891 · page 2

THE worthy president (Mr. H. E. Jones) of the Bowral Young Men's Association, entertained the members and several of their friends at a grand carnival held in the Association Hall on Monday…

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The Chicago Exhibition

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 1 August 1891 · page 2

MR.M'COURT, the senior member for Camden, proposes to ask the Premier in the Assembly on Tuesday: "1. Is it the intention of the Government to take steps to have the colony…

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