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Hunter Valley · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1892

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The Sydney Show. Official Opening. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 April 1892 · page 3

LORD JERSEY officially opened the Royal Agricultural Show to-day. The attendance was moderate owing to the rain…

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A Complete Triumph Is What the Great American Show Scored at Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 April 1892 · page 2

SELLS' Brothers' Enormous United Shows which are to be exhibited with the hippodrome and equestrian features included at Singleton on Thursday, April 28th, more…

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Maitland Show

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 April 1892 · page 2

THE three days show in connection with the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association takes place on. Tuesday, Wednesday and…

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The Muswellbrook Show

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1892 · page 4
Also in Singleton Argus, The Scone Advocate

We have been informed that all matters in connection with the coming Show to be held at Muswellbrook on May 11th and 12th, are progressing as satisfactorily as could be wished. Already…

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The Approaching Maitland Show

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1892 · page 4

Postponements are generally damaging to a cause, but if the Society is favoured with fine weather the putting off of the anuual exhibition of the Hunter River Agricultural…

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Novel. a Fair Blockade-Breaker. Chapter Iv. Accusation

The Scone Advocate · Saturday 23 April 1892 · page 1

The snow-flakes sifted down noiselossly but larger and faster; the tread of the sentry was softened almost into silence; and the fire, now duckling merrily on the old…

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Williams River Agricultural and Horticultural Show. [By Our Own Reporter.]

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1892 · page 3

"We do not know what Dungog was like during the period of the prehistoric deluge, but we do know that the old town which nestles so peacefully amid the hills which confine the babbling Williams…

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The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, April 23, 1892. Williams River Agricultural and Horticultural Show

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1892 · page 4

In continuing our story of the show at Dungog we may be pardoned for referring in complimentary terms to the secretary Mr. Elliott, who is a worthy successor of those who have gone before, and to…

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The Maitland Show. [By Our Own Reporter.] Maitland Tuesday Evening

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 April 1892 · page 3

THE thirty-second annual exhibition in connection with the Hunter River A [?]nd H. Association opened to-day The weather was anything but…

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Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association's Exhibition

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 28 April 1892 · page 4

Has anybody, bar those interested in the welfare of the Association, watched its progress? We think not. As long back as '54 or '55—according to some of our oldest inhabitants—a committee of…

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The Maitland Show

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 April 1892 · page 2

The Hunter River A. and H. Association's annual show, to which a cursory reference was made in our last issue, may, taking all circumstances into consideration, be…

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Protest Committee, Dungog Show. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 30 April 1892 · page 6

SIR,—While, as one of the committee of the W. R. A. and H. Association, feeling grateful to the proprietors of the Maitland Mercury for sending a representative of their paper to attend the Dungog…

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The Salt Butter at the Show. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 30 April 1892 · page 4

SIR,—I was very much surprised in reading the report of the late show in your issue of Thursday last to see a remark made by Mr. Lee, of the firm of Ireland and Co., to the effect that the salt butter…

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The Technical Court at the Exhibition

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 May 1892 · page 7

The townspeople and residents of this district who are talking an interest in the success of the West Maitland Technical School and its branches, must have felt…

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The Show at Murrurundi. [By Telegraph From Our Own Reporter.] Murrurundi

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 May 1892 · page 5

The annual show of the Murrurundi Pastorat and Agrisultural Society began to-day in depressing circumstances. The previous night was dull and cloudy after light rainfalls, and…

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The Murrurundi Show

The Scone Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1892 · page 2

THE opening day of the Murrurundi Show, which eventuated on Wednesday and Tuesday last, was decidedly unfavorable for the purpose. A dull…

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Murrurundi Pastoral and Agricultural Association. the Annual Show. [By Our Own Reporter.]

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 May 1892 · page 7

In commenting on the late show at West Maitland we took occasion to remark in our opinion altogether too many exhibitions were held in the northern portion of the colony annually, and…

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Original Correspondence. Re Judging Dogs at Maitland Show. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 May 1892 · page 3

SIR,—I hope you will allow me a short space in your columns to express my approval at the decision arrived at by the committee of the H. R. A. and H. Association re the…

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