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Shows & fairs, 1855

6 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Maitland Mercury. Saturday, January 6, 1855. the Australian Contributions to the Paris Exhibition

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1855 · page 2

ON New Year's Day, by the steamship Argo, the contributions of New South Wales to the Paris Exhibition of All Nations were forwarded to…

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Maitland Mercury. Saturday, March 31, 1855. the Want of an Agricultural Society

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 31 March 1855 · page 2

THERE can be little question that Mr. Geddes, in his agricultural lectures, has not all over-estimated the importance of agricultural societies to the…

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Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, August 22, 1855. THE N. S. Wales Contributions to the French Industrial Exhibition

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 August 1855 · page 2

THE Herald of Friday published a rather amusing series of correspondence forwarded by Mr. W. Macarthur to Sir Alfred Stephen. Sir Alfred, it will…

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Opening of the Universal Exhibition

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1855 · page 3

By our last advices we received a confirmation of the announcement that the universal exhibition at the Palace of Industry was inaugurated at a…

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Sydney News. Paris Exhibition.—australian Contributions. (From the S. M. Herald, Oct. 9.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1855 · page 2

The following extract, from a letter recently received from Mr. William Macarthur, the indefatigable and zealous Commissioner to Paris for New South Wales, will be read…

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Sydney News. Paris Exhibition. New South Wales Products. (Extracts from a private letter from Mr. W. Macarthur.) (From the Herald, Nov. 27.) Paris, 12th August, 1855

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 1 December 1855 · page 2

We are all in arrear with our official communication to Sydney, as we cannot get through the writing required from us here, and have no time to think about the rest. I…

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