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Shows & fairs, 1896

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The Brisbane Carnival

Evening News · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 2
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

The last two races of the intercolonial programme will be sailed at Brisbane this afternoon over the Milton Reach course. Both events are extra races, got being set down in the original fixtures. The…

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Intercolonial Sailing Carnival

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 11

The last two races of this season's intercolonial programme will be sailed at Brisbane this afternoon over the Milton Reach course. Both events are extra races, not being set…

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The Stanley Cycle Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 12

The increasing popularity of the sport and pastime of cycling was fully shown on the 22nd November (says the London Times) at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, at the opening of the nineteenth…

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Sailing Notes. Brisbane Intercolonial Sailing Carnival

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 42

The Queenslanders have been successful in holding their own against the visitors from Sydney. Out of the three races sailed Brisbane won all, and got one second, while Sydney had two seconds and three…

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The Brisbane Sailing Carnival. BRISBANE

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 15

The third of the intercolonial sailing races was Bailed at Sandgate to-day, and resulted in farther successes for the Brisbane boats, the Bulletin winning the 22-footers Race, with the Irex second…

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Cycling Notes. League of Wheelmen. A Draft Programme. Of the Autumn Meeting of the League --The March Carnival

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 5

On next Monday evening the draft programme for the March meeting of tho League will be submitted to the committee for approval. It is not proposed to launch…

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Industrial Progress. Of the Japanese Empire. Exhibition at Kioto. Lancashire Superseded--Forests of Factory Chimneys -- Manufacture of Hats, Boots, Surgical Instruments, &c.--Underselling the World

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 7

A correspondent of the Times sends a very instructive account of the Kioto Industrial Exhibitions, which he visited along with a crowd, of whom nearly every third…

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Stage, Song and Show. " John a Dreams" at the Lyceum. " Uncle Tom's Cabin" at the Criterion. Success of "Robinson C[?]"Pat. at the Royal--The Varlety Programmes

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 3

With the second performance of "Dandy Dick" the series of farce-comedy revivals arranged by Messrs. Brough and Boucicault for the opening of the Lyce[?] season…

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The Royal Agricultural Society. The Easter Exhibition

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1896 · page 5

THE arrangements for the forthcoming Easter Exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society are as well advanced as can be expected there months prior to the Show. Never in tho life…

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A New Year Carnival

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1896 · page 4

THERE is little to recommend in the way in which the New Year's Eve is celebrated in Sydney. Each year as it arrives a certain portion of the juvenile residents, mostly…

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The Kennel. the Agricultural Society

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1896 · page 3

The Agricultural Society is once more promptly to time in the field with the schedule of its forthcoming Easter Show, to be held on April 1 to 7 next. The dog…

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Intercolonial Carnival at Balmain

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1896 · page 3

Taking advantage of the presence in Sydney of the large number of prominent intercolonial swimmers, the Balmain Club have arranged an attractive programme for their annual…

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The Brisbane Carnival. Visitors Again Defeated

Evening News · Monday 6 January 1896 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday.—The City of Brisbane Sailing Club held a complimentary regatta In Milton Reach, Brisbane River, on Saturday afternoon, in honor of the New South Wales visitors…

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The Intercolonial Sailing Carnival. Queensland Boats Again Victorious

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1896 · page 6

BRISBANE, Saturday.--This afternoon the City of Brisbane Sailing Club held a complimentary regatta in Milton Reach, Brisbane River, In honor of the New South…

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Stage, Song and Show. "John a' Dreams." First Time in Sydney. The Present Day Heroins--The Other Theatres--Varlety Programmes

The Australian Star · Monday 6 January 1896 · page 3

When Mr. Haddon Chambers to suit the humour of the hour set himself to make a play about the "woman who used to" he evidently compromised with himself for a…

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The Intercolonial Sailing Carnival

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1896 · page 3

The A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Aramac arrived yesterday afternoon, about 3 o'clock, bringing back the Esmeralda, 22ft., and Yvonne, 18ft., together with the crews of…

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Royal Agricultural Society. The Forthcoming Show

The Australian Star · Wednesday 8 January 1896 · page 3

A deputation representing the Royal Agricultural Society waited upon the Minister for Agriculture yesterday with regard to certain matters in which…

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Wellington Agricultural Society

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1896 · page 6

WELLINGTON, Tuesday.--The annual general meeting of the members of the Wellington Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held last night, Mr. R. T. B…

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Agricultural Society. Deputation to the Minister

Evening News · Wednesday 8 January 1896 · page 3

The Minister for Minos and Agriculture was waited upon yesterday by Mr. F. Harvey, M.L.A. (hon, treasurer), Messrs. F. Webster (secretary), J. Martin, and R. M'Millan, representing the…

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