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Southern Highlands · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1897

16 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

The Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 10 March 1897 · page 4

The event of the year—the Berrima District Show —sakes place on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at Moss Vale. It will be officially opened at 2.30 on Thursday…

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Cycling Carnival

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 17 April 1897 · page 2

THE cycling carnival to be held on the Bowral and Moss Vale Club Grounds at Burradoo promises to be one of the biggest events ever held in the district, and…

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Bowral Free Press Do as adversaries do in law: Stive mightily, but cut and drink as friends. Wednesday, April 21, 1897. the Royal Agricultural Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 21 April 1897 · page 4

ALTHOUGH held in Sydney, the Royal Agricultural Show is of interest, and may be said to belong to the whole colony. It is the country which really makes the…

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The Recent Y.w.c.a. Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 28 April 1897 · page 4

THE Bowral Y.W.C.A. chrysanthemum show, held in the School of Arts last week, like all the other district shows this year, was a decided success…

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Bowral Fres Press Do as adversaries do in law: Strive mightly, but eat and drink as friends, Wednesday; July 7, 1897, the Sydney Sheep Show

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 7 July 1897 · page 4

THE industry which, the Governor, Lord Hampdon, aptly referred, to as the backbone of the prosperity of the colony has been much in evidence in the Metropolis…

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Agricultural Society

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 21 July 1897 · page 4

THE committee held its usual meeting in the School of Arts, Bowral, on Monday [?] instant. Present—Messrs. T. Secry (chairman), T. Troy June, T. W. Lackey,…

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No Exhibition

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 31 July 1897 · page 2

MR REID had a great surprise in store for the French Minister for foreign affairs whom he interviewed with the assistance of an interpreter in Paris. Ever since the…

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A Carnival of Blood

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 1 September 1897 · page 2

For a long time put the country districts in the neighbourhood of Soochow had suffered from the depredations of a band of marauders, who in their pillaging expeditions outraged and…

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Agricultural Society

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 15 September 1897 · page 4

THE regular monthly meeting of the committee was held in the Bowral School of Arts on Monday afternobm Present: Messrs E. Goodridge (in the chair), J…

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Agricultural Society

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 13 October 1897 · page 4

THE monthly meeting of the committee of the B.D.A.H. and I. Society was held at the Commercial Hotel, Moss Vale, on Saturday afternoon. Present: Messrs. J. A. Badgery (in the chair), T…

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Agricultural Society

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 10 November 1897 · page 4

THE committee of the B. D. A. H. and I. Society met at the Bowral School of Arts on Monday afternoon." Present: Messrs. J. A. Badgery (in the…

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The Carnival of Parts

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 17 November 1897 · page 2

For the time being the carnival which began on Sunday may be said to absorb the attention of everybody. Arton, although in Paris, is temporarily as forgot ten as he was by…

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The Fiji Fire-walkers. a Savage Show Sensation

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 17 November 1897 · page 3

Recently it was reported that a party of Europeans hud visited the island of Bega, Fiji, where they witnessed the mystery of the fire-walker's ceremonial…

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Miss Adkins' Art Exhibition

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 18 December 1897 · page 2

THE upper rooms of the Town Hall, Bowral, never before locked so well as they did on Thursday afternoon last, on the occasion of an exhibition given by Miss M. Adkins and her pupils, of paintings ands…

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Bowral Free Press Do as adversaries do in law: Strive mightily, but cat and drink an friends. Wednesday, December 22, 1897. Miss Colvin-Clark's School. Exhibition of Pupils' Work. Distribution of Prizes

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 22 December 1897 · page 4

THERE was a large gathering of parents and friends at the breaking up of the above school for the Christmas vacation, held in the Bowral School of Arts on…

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Miss Colvin-Clark's School. Exhibition of Pupils Work. Distribution of Prizes

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 25 December 1897 · page 3

THERE was a large gathering of parents and friends at the breaking up of the above sohool for the Chrismas vacation, held in the Bowral School of Arts on Monday afternoon. We published the…

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