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Shows & fairs, 1899

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The Easter Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 March 1899 · page 8

Very rapid progress is now being made in the preparation of the catalogue of the exhibits entered for the Royal Agricultural Society's Show. The entries being exceptionally numerour, much work in…

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The Castle-hill Show and the License

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 March 1899 · page 3

The opposition to the issue of a license for this year's show of the Castle-hill Agricultural and Horticultural Association having been successful, like that of previous occasions, it would be only natural to expect that those…

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The Electric Light Carnival. a Successful Gathering. Fall in the Sydney Cup Final. Elliott Gets the £100. M'donald and Forbes Win the Orient Plate

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 March 1899 · page 6

Last night saw the close of the three nights' cycling carnival run under the control of the League of Wheolmon, and some of the finest racing of the season was seen. The big events, that is,…

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Cheap Excursions. Royal Agricultural Society's Show

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 10 March 1899 · page 7

Special cheap rates to Sydney for the show. In councction with the forthcoming Easter Carnival, for which the Royal Agricultural…

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Gundagai Show

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 10 March 1899 · page 2

The Gandagai folks are going to have a niee show this time judging by the support received from exhibitore. The total number of entrses sent in…

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Tumberumba Show

Evening News · Friday 10 March 1899 · page 3

WAGGA, Friday.—The annual show of the Tumberumba and Upper Murray Pastoral and Agricultural Society was concluded on Wednesday. The attendance was very satisfactory, and the…

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Mudgee Show

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 10 March 1899 · page 3

The secretary of the Mudegee Agricultural Society requests us to state that, at a largely attended meeting of the Committee on march 4, it was…

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The Easter Agricultural Show

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 10 March 1899 · page 3

The entries in the cattle sections are very large, and better representative of this colony, South Australia and Victoria than ever before. The…

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The Royal Agricultural Society's Show

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 14

In view of the fact that several dogs from some of the leading kennels are just now suffering from distemper, eczema, and other skin diseases, a reminder perhaps will not be out of place that…

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Swimming Carnival

The Catholic Press · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 11

Last Wednesday afternoon, the schools directed by the Marist Brothers in Sydney hold their second annual annual, carnival, Baths, Domain. About 700 boys…

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Cycling. Electric Light Carnival

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 49

The electric light cycling carnival was resumed at the Sydney Cricket Ground on March 1 in delightful weather. Fully 10,000 people attended, there were no accidents, and the arrangements…

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Our District Show

Nepean Times · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 6

A meeting of the Nepean District Show Committee was held on the Show Ground on Friday, 3rd March, at 3 p.m. Mr Lloyd Williams (Vice-president) occupied the chair,…

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A Show in Itself

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 7

Mr. Anthony Herdern and Sons, with their usual enterprise, are doing " big licks " at the Royal Agricultural Society's forthcoming Show at Moore Park. Finding…

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A Realty Good Show

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 4

Those really excellent entertainers, Ernest Hosking, Georgo Hellings, Wyatt Burns, and Miss May Hellings, whose per­formances at the C.C.E.C.C.'s concert some…

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Liverpool Plains Agricultural Show

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 10

TAMWORTH, Friday.--The Liverpool Plains Agricultural Society's Show was concluded yesterday, The attendance was about 4000. Special trains, crowded with passengers, arrived from…

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A New England Show

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 14

The poultry section of the Tenterfield show this weak, so far as classification, and prize money goos, was not very attractive. This, however, did not affect for ill either the quality or…

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Chapter X. the Quken of Thh Carnival

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 3

Love is not slain by a father's stern decree, Or in ten thousand cases love had ceased to be. Loving is a waking dream, built upon fair…

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At the Glen Innes Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 545

The outlook from the train in the early morning was the most promising I have seen this year, and right on to my destination there was a rich green mantle over the earth that had been bare…

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Notes and Comments. The Passing Show. Volcanic Aldermen

The Catholic Press · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 13

While the world at largo is at present in comparative peace and tranquility tho Leichhardt Council is in araging volcanic condition of angry passion, and of conflicting…

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The Castle Hill Show. Speech by the Premier

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 9

The Premier and a Parliamentary party visited the Castle Hill show yesterday. Mr. Reid formally declared the show open, and a numerous party afterwards sat down to lunch in the smaller…

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