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Shows & fairs, 1864

2 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Intercolonial Wool Show

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 August 1864 · page 2

It will be remembered that some months ago Mr. N. P.Bayly, of Mudgee, in a lotter published in the Herald, explained the reason why he and other sheep breeders in this colony failed to send sheep to the intercolonial sheep…

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The Approaching Intercolonial Wool Show. (From the Melbourne Argus, Aug. 26.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 September 1864 · page 5

The promoters of the Intercolonial Show of Wool have fixed on the 12th of January as the day on which the bales to be opened in the colony are to be shown in Melbourne. As…

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