The Bathurst Show. (From the Evening News.)
The Bathurst Show was opened this day. Since an early hour this morning, the committee, with the secretary, Mr. Thompson, had been assiduously engaged in getting…
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The Grafton Show. (From the Evening News.) Grafton
The show opened yesterday with inauspicious weather, which had a great effect on the attendance. The secretary's tally is close on 600. The show of thoroughbred…
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The weather now seems to be the only doubtful element in the success of the show of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association. The committee have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. [Through Greville's Telegram Co.] Closing of the Exhibition. Sydney
TO-DAY is a close holiday. Large crowds were present at the Exhibition this morning to witness the closing ceremonies, but the heavy showers of rain…
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THE members of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association are to be congratulated on the success of their twentieth annual show…
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The fourteenth annual show of the above Society was held at Grafton on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 14th, 15th, and 16th April. The weather was unfavourable,…
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Our sales of stock held in connexion with the H. R. A. and H. Show were the dullest we have hitherto experienced. Although a large number of heavy draught colts and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hunter River Agricultural & Horticultural Association. Twentieth Annual Show. Second Day, Thursday, April 22
The attendance on the ground on the second day was, as was reasonably to be anticipated, very great. The weather was not entirely propitious: there were occasional…
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[?] how was continued yesterday, under [?]lly favorable circumstances. The wea[?] was beautifully fine in the forenoon, and [?] attendance was large for the third day,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Original Correspondence. Durhams at the Show. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—As an exhibitor of Durhams at the late Show, I take exception to your remarks anent this breed. You say: The Durham cattle are of good quality, but the Devons…
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WE give below the remainder of the awards at the above Show last week. These Particulars were crowded out of our last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Original Correspondence. the Late Show. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—Referring to the list of awards in connection with the recent annual show of the H. R. A. and H. Association, published in this day's issue of the Mercury, I beg…
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The following interchange of direct messages, between Lord Augustus Loftus and her Majesty the Queen, (says the Echo) cannot be other than gratifying to the people…
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TRULY as Lord Loftus remarked at the closing ceremony at the Exhibition"The end of the most illustrious life is the peaceful grave!" and so endeth the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Original Correspondence. the Late Show. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
Sir,—Through the medium of your valuable paper I wish to draw the attention of those responsible to the manner in which the horticultural exhibits were treated at the annual…
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The German newspapers have just made the announcement that the commission appointed by the German Government for the International Exhibition at Melbourne, has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mudgee Pastoral and Agricultural Show. (By telegraph to Herald.) Mudgee
About 700 persons were present at the show to-day, including a large number of visitors from a distance, many from hundreds of miles away. The exhibits of sheep were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Warren Pastoral Association's Show. (Abridged from the Dubbo Dispatch.)
The above association's show commenced at Warren in temporary yards on June 3. The weather was all that could be desired. The principal prize taker in the horse stock…
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The Hobart Town Mercury of June 10 reports that the accounts of Mr. D'Avigdor, the secretary to the Tasmanian Executive Commissioner (the Hon P. A. Jennings),…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →South Australia at the Paris Exhibition. (By Telegraph to the Herald.) Adelaide
In the Assembly, to-day, Mr. Townsend took the chair, in the absence of the Speaker (Sir George Kingston), who was absent through ill-health. Mr. Bray, on a formal…
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