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Shows & fairs, 1891

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A Juvenile Industrial Exhibition

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 March 1891 · page 3

On Saturday next the juvenile population [?] New South Wales will demonstrate to the world at large their proficiency in arts and industries by means of an exhibition to be held…

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Stage, Song and Show

The Australian Star · Tuesday 24 March 1891 · page 8

Phil Goatcher, the scenic artist, is busy on the scenery of a new opera, "The Old Guard," to be produced at the Princess, Melbourne. The Southern Cross minstrels again played…

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The Agricultural Society's Show

Evening News · Wednesday 25 March 1891 · page 5

The Agricultural Society's annual show was opened at Moore Park this morning, and will continue open until the 30th. Daring the afternoon the Palace Emporium jumping contest will…

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Agricultural Society. Annual Exhibition. Judging Day

The Australian Star · Wednesday 25 March 1891 · page 3

THE New South Wales Agricultural Society opened their annual exhibition on the grounds at Moore Park to-day, and though the reception of exhibits had to be delayed…

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The New South Wales Agricultural Society's Annual Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1891 · page 5

The great metropolitan exhibition arranged by the Agricultural Sooioty of New South Wales and which has become an annual event, will this year be formatly openpd by his Excellency the Governor to-morrow…

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N.s.w. Agricultural Society

Referee · Wednesday 25 March 1891 · page 5

One of the most important events in the history of the colony dawns upon us to-day with the opening of the Agricultural Society's Exhibition of 1801. in these…

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N.s.w. Agricultural Society

Referee · Wednesday 25 March 1891 · page 5

One of the most important events in teh history of the colony dawns upon us to-day with the opening of the Agricultural Society's Exhibition of 1891. In these…

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Stage, Song and Show

The Australian Star · Wednesday 25 March 1891 · page 3

The last performance of the present opera season will take place at the Garrick Theatre to-night, when "Maritana" will be presented. We are given to understand that…

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Pedestrianism. Kennedy's Creed Is a Fast Runner. Billy Badly Beaten In a Fair Go

Referee · Wednesday 25 March 1891 · page 3

And He Leaves for Omeo—Regeneration of old Dick Stevens— Third in the Final— And Such a Final— A good Forty-year Older— Good Runner Gannon— Enptied…

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Footlight Flashes. Easter Holiday Attrac-tions. Changes on Saturday. "The Golden Ladder." "My Jack." JOHN F. SHERIDAN. "Bridget O'Brien, Esq."—"The Schoolmistress"—Miss Maggle Moore—close of the Opera Season—A Big Show at the Alhambra—Tracey's Vaudeville Company—Harbor Concerts—Bondi, Botany and Coogee — The cyclorama—Wild America—Odd Notes, &c

Referee · Wednesday 25 March 1891 · page 7

Managers are preparing for the Easter Holidays, and special attractions will be put on for the benefit of sundry and divers people who generally come down to the city form the…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 March 1891 · page 7

A meeting of the committee of the Albury Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held to-day, Mr. J. H. Turner in the chair. The secretary's report was read, showing that £965 had been received since last…

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Bathurst Show

The Australian Star · Thursday 26 March 1891 · page 6

BATHURST, Thursday. -- Entries for the forthcoming show closed with the hon. secretary (Mr. N. G. Thompson) to-day. They exceed those of any previous year, and the…

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The Agricultural Show. Judging Day. Show Ground

The Australian Star · Thursday 26 March 1891 · page 6

The judges were busy all day in awarding the various prizes, and had barely completed their work in the afternoon. It was not expected that a large number of the…

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Metropolitan Agricultural Exhibition. the Judging Day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 March 1891 · page 5

When rain holds off Easter is the best season for agricultural shows. It is with pastoralists and agriculturists a slack time. The wheat and hay harvest is over. Sowing has not commenced. Shearing supplies…

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Stage, Song and Show

The Australian Star · Thursday 26 March 1891 · page 3

We hardly think, in the face of the very cordial reception which was accorded to "The Crown of Thorns" last night, that it can be justly laid at our doors as Australians…

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The Agricultural Show. Official Opening. The Prefix of Royal. Show Ground

The Australian Star · Thursday 26 March 1891 · page 6

This afternoon the Metropolitan Exhibition of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales was formally declared open by his Excellency the Governor. There was a…

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The Agricultural Show. The Principal Exhibits. The Judges' Awards

The Australian Star · Thursday 26 March 1891 · page 7

ONE of the first things that strikes a visitor on entering the gates of the Agricultural Exhibition, at Moore Park, is that the present show is an almost exact reproduction of those…

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The Metropolitan Show. First Day. Notice of the Exhibits.--judging and Awards

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 March 1891 · page 5

It has passed into a proverb or recent years that with every recurring exhibition of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales there must necessarily be a rapid decline in the…

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The Agricultural Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 March 1891 · page 3

The opening day of the New South Wales Agricultural Society's Show was not favoured with weather of a congenial character. Yesterday morning drizzling rain fell, and clouds hung overhead had the result of…

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The World's Fair at Chicago. London, March 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 March 1891 · page 5

The British Government has decided that England shall be officially represented at the World's Fair to be held in Chicago in 1893…

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