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Shows & fairs, 1875

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The Philadelphia Exhibition. Wool Exhibits

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 9 September 1875 · page 2

The following circular has been issued to woolgrowers by the New South Wales Commissioners:- The Philadelphia and Melbourne Exhibition Commissioners invite the woolgrowers of New South Wales…

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The Philadelphia Exhibition

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 4

WE (Sydney Morning Herald) should suppose that those who are engaged in pastoral pursuits will not be slow to recognize the importance of a good…

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New South Wales Exhibitors at the Melbourne Exhibition

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 2

The following notices are taken from the report given in the Argus of the 3rd inst. As an illustration of glass painting of quite a different, but at the same time more…

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Yass Sheep Show. (By Telegraph.) Tuesday Evening

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 29 September 1875 · page 4

THE sheep for the show were judged by Messrs. Lucian Faithfull and William Oliver. There were some sixty entries altogether, and valuable sheep have…

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Photographs For the Philadelphia Exhibition

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 4

MR. J. W. Lin[?] artistic, photographer, from Grafton, Clarence River, has this week personally delivered a series of artistically taken views of Australian…

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The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, October 9, 1875. the Philadelphia Exhibition and Australian Wine

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 9 October 1875 · page 2

ONLY very sanguine and imaginative persons will expect immediate beneficial results to the colonies of Australasia, from their representation at Philadelphia. The value to us of such…

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Agricultural Society of N.S.W. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 13 October 1875 · page 2

Doctor: 'You are doing that piece of paving very bad Pat." Pat ; 'Doctor, dear. there was a man down in my part of the country got very…

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The Phila[?]phia Exhibition

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1875 · page 2

A GOOD deal of business was done by the meeting of the Philadelphia Exhibition Commission Saturday last—a good deal, that is, in the way of receiving reports and suggestions…

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The Wine Prizes. Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1875 · page 6

The Melbourne Argus of Saturday, Oct 16, gives the following full report of the prizes for wine, awarded at the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition. They are published in a…

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The Philadelphia Exhibition. European Preparations

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 October 1875 · page 2

In connection with the Philadelphia Exhibition we may state that the questions as regards duty on contributed goods from foreign countries, and also relative to the same being liable to seizure for…

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The Wine Prizes Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 27 October 1875 · page 3

The following are the awards given to the New South Wales exhibitions by the Wine jury at the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition…

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Seeing Fair in a Domestic Difference

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1875 · page 4

A gentleman residing in this city had occasion a few days since to make a journey down the river, and several miles back from it, using a saddle horse. Darkness overtaking him in a…

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Railway Coal Charges. Fair Play Is Bonny Play. (From the Herald of Monday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 9 December 1875 · page 2

It will have been seen from our Parliamentary report that Mr. Lloyd has lately been asking some questions about the Government charges for the baulage of coal pn the different lines of railway…

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Horticultural Show

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 15 December 1875 · page 1

The [?] Society held its second show for this year in the School of Arts on Wednesday last. There was a large number of exhibits, same of which…

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Exhibition and Distribution of Prizes at the West Maitland Public Sohool

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1875 · page 2

The first distribution of prizes at the West Maitland Public school took place on Thursday afternoon, in the girls' school-room, in the presence of the parents and friends of the children, and a number of…

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