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Hunter Valley · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1846

6 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Hunter River Agricultural Society

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1846 · page 2

The annual general meeting of this society took place at the Northumberland Hotel yesterday, Charles Reynolds, Esq., the president of the society, in the chair…

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Hunter River District News. [From Our Correspondents.] Singleton. First Show and Fair of the Patrick's Plains, and Upper Hunter Agricultural Association

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 March 1846 · page 2

On the occasion of this, the first Show of our Association, the weather was propitious and the attendance good: but it is to be regretted that some slight damp was thrown…

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Maitland Mercury. Saturday, April 11, 1846. the Agricultural Society's Show and Fair

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 11 April 1846 · page 2

WEDNESDAY, next is the day appointed for the third annual show and ploughing match of the Hunter River Agricultural Society, and on the following day…

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Hunter River Agricultural Society. Show and Ploughing Match

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1846 · page 4

On Wednesday last the third Show of this Society took place In Maitland. The stock was exhibited in the yards at the rear of the Albion Inn, and the produce in a shed…

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Australian Agricultural Society. (From the Colonial Gazette, Jan. 24.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1846 · page 3

The directors of this company held their annual court on Tuesday afternoon, at their offices in King's Arms-yard, Moorgate-street, to lay before the proprietors a statement of…

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British Extracts. the Carnival at Lisbon

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 August 1846 · page 4

The following account of the proceedings of the Carnival lately held in Lisbon, is from the private correspondence of a London daily paper:…

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