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Illawarra · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1869

8 stories in Illawarra's papers

Illawarra Agricultural Society's Show

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 5 February 1869 · page 2

The twenty fifth Exhibition of the above Society took place yesterday, but we should not be speaking truthfully were we to say it was a' success. For several years past the seasons have been such as not…

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Dapto Agricultural Show

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 12 February 1869 · page 2

The Show in connection with the Dapto Agricultural Society will be held at the Council Chamber, Dapto, this day. However unfavourable tho season may have been, it is to be hoped the Show may…

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Kiama Agricultural and Horticultural Society's Exhibition

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 25 February 1869 · page 2

THE nominally annual exhibition of the above society took place, after an interval of two years, yesterday, and proved a very satisfactory affair. The day, as…

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Exhibition of Industry and Art

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 8 April 1869 · page 1

AN industrial and art exhibition was opened yesterday, in the schoolhouse adjoining the Pitt-street Congregational Church. The exhibition is one of considerable extent,…

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His Excellency's Speech at the Agricultural Society's Dinner

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 13 May 1869 · page 4

MR. Chairman and Gentlemen—The duty now devolves upon me to propose the toast of the evening, "Prosperity to the Agricultural Society of New South…

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New South Wales Agricultural Show

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 13 May 1869 · page 3

WE extract the following items (as likely to be of most interest to our readers) from the Herald:— Of half a dozen lots of very nicely got up…

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Notice to Correspondents. the letter signed "Fair Play," commenting on the decision of the magistrates in the case Francis v. Bigg is necessarily held over till our next. Gardener's Calendar. October

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 14 October 1869 · page 2

KITCHEN GARDEN.—For late crop sow peas, cabbages, lettuce, onions, radish, caraots, turnips, parsnips, pumpkins, melons, cucumbers, parsley, celery, mustard, cress, and herbs: Cape gooseberries, tomatoes, capsicums, &c…

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Court of Petty Sessions. Thursday, November 18. (Before C. Fairs, A. A. Turner, and H. M. Croft, Esq's, J.P's.)

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 November 1869 · page 2

Alexander Ross appeared, charged with having failed to give notice to the Minister for Lands and the Inspector of Collieries of a serious accident which had occurred to Samuel Harley, at the Bulli Coal…

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