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Shows & fairs, 1890

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The Dunedin Exhibition. Further Awards. (By Cable.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 January 1890 · page 4

DUNEDIN, Tuesday.--Captain Margin Espanesse has forwarded the [?]olowing statistics of the attendance the first 58 days of the Melbourne International Exhibition, 1880-81,…

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The Crookwell Show. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Crookwell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1890 · page 7

The Agricultural Society's committee has drafted a prize schedule, and appointed judges and stewards. Complaints were made at the delay in payment of the Government subsidy, and the secretary was ordered to…

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The New Zealand Exhibition. the Viceregal and Ministerial Visit to Dunedin. (By Our Special Representative.) Dunedin, Jan. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1890 · page 4

The past weak has been the New South Wales field week during this Exhibition season. Victoria in Dunedin's nearest Australian neighbour, and, since Dunedin has been "at home" to all her…

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Melbourne Exhibition Awards

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1890 · page 4

When in Melbourne a few days ago, Mr. R. B, Smith was informed that the medals and other awards bad not been handed over by the Melbourne Exhibition Commissioners to the…

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Albury and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1890 · page 8

The fourteenth annual meeting cf the Albury and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society took place to-day. The report disclosed a steady continuance of the progrese shown in previous years. There had been…

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The Dunedin Exhibition. (By Cable.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1890 · page 5

DUNEDIN, Wednesday -- The jurors have awarded Mr. Auguste Fiebig of Adelaide, the first prize for a colonial made violin…

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Taree Agricultural Show

The Australian Star · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 6

TAREE, Monday.--Messrs. See, Carruthers, Martin, Young, and Roberts, M.'sL.A., intend visiting the district agricultural show, which is to be held in a…

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Fruit Show

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 8

ENTRIES next Thursday, Feb. 6, for the CUMBERLAND ARGUS Fruit Show. Do not forget. Encourage our staple industry and support a worthy…

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Fruit Show

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 6

ENTRIES close next Thursday, Feb. 6, for the CUMBERLAND ARGUS Fruit Show. Do not forget. Encourage our staple industry and support a worthy…

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Fruit Show

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 8

ENTRIES close next Thursday, Feb. 6, for the CUMBERLAND ARGUS Annual Fruit Show. Do not forget. Encourage our staple industry and support a…

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Fruit Show

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 6

ENTRIES close next Thursday, Feb. 6, for the CUMBERLAND ARGUS Annual Fruit Show. Do not forget. Encourage our staple industry and support a…

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Fruit Show

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 2

ENTRIES close next Thursday, Feb. 6, for the CUMBERLAND ARGUS Annual Fruit Show. Do not forgot. Encourage our staple industry and support a…

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Wollongong A., H., and I. Association Exhibition

Evening News · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 4

The Wollongong Agricultural Association, which has of late taken a foremost position among the coast shows, promises this year to excel former gatherings. This season's show…

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The New Zealand Exhibition. the Wool Awards. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Dunedin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 11

The following awards have been made in the wool section at the Exhibition:—First award— Section 1, Traill Bros., Cassilis; 2, Collaroy Company; 3, G. and H. Suttor, Buthurst; 4, Balfour and…

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Agricultural Society. Application for a Grant

The Australian Star · Monday 3 February 1890 · page 6

THIS morning Messrs. John Sec, H. Dawson, Fraser Martin, and the secretary of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales, waited upon the Premier, and asked that he…

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The American Exhibition. The Battle for the Site. The Claims of St. Louis

The Australian Star · Monday 3 February 1890 · page 8

THE site for the forthcoming world's fair in 1892 is as yet far from being fixed, for, besides New York and Chicago, not to mention Washington, St. Louis now comes…

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The Agricultural Society

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 February 1890 · page 4

The Premier was yesterday morning wailed upon by Messrs. Bee, Dawson and Martin, Ms.P., and Mr. Fraser Martin, who asked that the sum of £500 might be granted to the…

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Melbourne Exhibition Medals

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 February 1890 · page 4

We stated last week that the medals awarded to New South Wales exhibitors at the Melbourne Exhibition had been brought to Sydney by Mr. H. B. Smith, the late executive…

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Wollongong Agricultural, &c., Show

Evening News · Tuesday 4 February 1890 · page 3

The committee of the Wollongong Agricultural, &c., Show, fixed for Wednesday and Thursday next, and which it was feared would have to be postponed owing to the wet weather, has decided…

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Special Grant to the Agricultural Society

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 February 1890 · page 4

A schedule of the proposed special prizes to be presented by the Agricultural Society at their show to be held during the Easter week, and for which a grant of £500 was asked from…

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