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Hunter Valley · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1883

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The Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Society and Their Prizes. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 12 April 1883 · page 7

SIR,—I see by an advertisement of the abovenamed Society, whose show is to be held at Musclebrook on the 16th and 17th prox, that a few prizes are offered for needlework, drawing, and penmanship…

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The Forthcoming Show

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 14 April 1883 · page 6

The annual show of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association opens on the Show grounds of the Society, West Maitland, on Wednesday next, and will…

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Bordeaux Wine Exhibition and Australian Wines. (From the Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 14 April 1883 · page 5

In a report received from Mr. Bonnard, the secretary for New South Wales at the Bordeaux Wine Exhibition, through the Agent-General, he states:—"I beg to be…

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The Forthcoming Show

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 April 1883 · page 4

To-morrow (Wednesday) the twenty-third annual show in connexion with the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association, will take place on the Association's…

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The [?]aitland [?]ercury Thursday, April 19, 1883. Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association. Twenty-third Annual Show. First Day, Wednesday, April 18

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 April 1883 · page 4

The changeable weather of the last few days was sufficient to create grave apprehensions as to the success of the twenty-third annual show in connexion with the Hunter…

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Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association. Twenty-third Annual Show. Third Day, Friday, April 20

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 21 April 1883 · page 6

The stock exhibits, except those intended for sale, were removed on Thursday evening, but the other departments of the show remained intact. With a desire to avoid any…

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Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association. Twenty-third Annual Show. Second Day, Thursday, April 19

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 21 April 1883 · page 6

The heavy banks of inky clouds that overshadowed the sky on Wednesday, and betokened aheavy fall of rain, had disappeared by Thursday morning, and everything was…

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Amsterdam Exhibition. London, May 1

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 May 1883 · page 2

The Amsterdam International Exhibition was formally opened to-day although, as a whole. It was not really for opening several of the principal courts being in an…

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What the Fair Young Maiden Said

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 5 May 1883 · page 5

An evening or two since, while we were sitting alone on the hotel verandah listening to the monotonous drip, drip from the roof, a fair young maiden tripped lightly by on her homeward way. We…

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The Muswellbrook Show

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 May 1883 · page 8

As was expected from the unsettled condition of the weather of the past few days, a postponement of the annual show of the Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural…

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Devon Cattle at the Smithfield Club's Cattle Show

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 May 1883 · page 6

The following extract from the English Live Stock Journal, Dec 8, 1882, will be read with interest by many of our readers, who are interested in stock:- The Devons.—Londoners who know when they see anything…

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Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Seventh Annual Show. First Day, Wednesday, May 30. (From our own Reporters.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 31 May 1883 · page 5

Exhibitions of a pastoral and agricultural c[?]aracter are important as means of promoting and developing industrial excellence and success. The encouragement and growth of the various…

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Muswellbrook Show

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 June 1883 · page 1

ON 'Wednesday and Thursday the seventh show of the Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricaltural Association was held on the show ground, near the…

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Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Seventh Annual Show. Second Day, Thursday, May 31St. (From our own Reporters.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 2 June 1883 · page 6

So far as the weather was concerned the Association was singularly fortunate. Wednesday was a beautiful day, and on Thursday the weather was quite as enjoyable. It was a day just suitable for…

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Sketcher. A Fair [?] [?]

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 June 1883 · page 4

[?] have generally been credited with a [?] the great [?] of the [?] world [?] [?]. Their [?]…

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Proposed Australian Exhibition in London. (By telegraph to the Herald.) Melbourne

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 14 June 1883 · page 7

At a meeting of the committee of the Chamber of Commerce, held to-day, a letter was received from Mr. R. E. N. Twopeny, calling attention to the desirability of holding…

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The Amsterdam Exhibition. (From the Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 June 1883 · page 3

It will be remembered that our cablegrams in reference to the opening of the Amsterdam International Exhibition showed that the Hon. Thomas Holt, M.L.C., Executive…

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The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, June 30, 1883. an Australasian Exhibition in London

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1883 · page 4

REFERENCES have for some time past been common in the newspapers, to a suggestion by Mr. Twopeny for holding an Australasian exhibition in London in 1885. The projector…

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Stud Sheep Fair in Sydney. (From Tuesday's Echo.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 12 July 1883 · page 3

The stud sheep fair of this year, which undoubtedly will be the largest ever known in this colony, opens on Saturday next with the sale of American merino rams at Bradley's…

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Mail Extracts. a Railway Exhibition

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 14 July 1883 · page 4

A national exhibition of railway appliances will be held in Chicago, June 12[?]23, in the Interstate Exposition Buildings, [?] gallery of which is one-third of a mile long…

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