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Murray · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1864

5 stories in Murray's papers

The Fair One with the Golden Locks

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 26 March 1864 · page 4

An action was brought in die Melbourne County Court, lately, in which the value of a head of hair was estimated at no less a sum than £49 14s. The action was…

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Fair Denmark

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 25 June 1864 · page 4

Most people have their Ultima Thule on the map, beyond which all is shadowy twilight, terns incognito:, peopled by [?] anthropophagi, or “ men whose heads do grow…

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Open Column. the Proposed Intercolonial Show of Wool. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 13 August 1864 · page 3

Sir,—In the Sydney Morning Herald of the 1st of August last I observed a letter from the pen of Thomas Shaw, and which purports to be in answer to one published in the columns of that journal some months ago…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Tuesday, 22nd November, 1864. [Before P. A. Jennings, A Landale, and H. Ricketson, J.Ps.. Esqs.]WAGES

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 26 November 1864 · page 2

John Boyd claimed the sum of £36 7s. from John Taylor, for timber. Mr. Jeffery appeared for plaintiff, Mr. Robertson for defendant…

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Open Column. Fair Play To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 17 December 1864 · page 3

SIR,—Mr. Thomas Robertson, in seconding Mr. Robert Landale’s nomination, remarked to the [?] that some anonymous writer in that mornings issue of your journal had east [?] on Mr. [?]…

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