Singleton Flower Show
SINGLETON, Wednesday.—At a well-attended quarterly meeting of [?] committee of the Northern Agricultural Association, held this day, twenty-three being…
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Shows & fairs, 1885
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Close of the W. and I. Exhibition
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Wealth and Industrial Exhibition was brought to a close to-night. It has not been a financial success, and there is little chance of the local industry people having cleared…
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LONDON, Sunday.—The Exhibition at New Orleans is a failure…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The Shakespearean Fair in the Town Hall, in aid of a fund to build a house for the Carmelite Fathers, in Melbourne, was brought to a…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—It has been suggested that Sir Saul Samuel should be appointed Joint Executive Commissioner of the coming colonial exhibition…
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LONDON , Monday.—An important meeting was held to-day at Marlborough House, the residence of the Prince of Wales, in connection with the proposed…
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A MEETING of those connected with the above show was held in this School of Arts last night, for the purpose of arranging for the forthcoming show, which is to be held…
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WE are requested by the secretary to remind our readers of the fact that entries close for competition (not general entries) this (Wednesday) afternoon…
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IN November, 1847, a London merchant and his family—Mr. and Mrs. Howe, and Florence, their only child, a girl of fourteen—while travelling in…
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His retreat, which we have now described, not over three hundred miles distant from Cairo, was hidden as completely from all pursuers as if…
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There was a small fountain set in the midst of a marble basin in the centre of this court. Two or three gigantic palms up reared themselves…
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YESTERDAY the above association opened their twenty-fifth annual show on their splendid show ground, West Maitland, and with a list of over 2000 entries, it promises…
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WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.—To-day was fine, and the town was crowded with visitors. The hotels were full, and there were 8000 people at the show, the takings…
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MAITLAND, Friday.—The Maitland Show closed to-day. The attendance was fairly large. To-day's receipts were £35; last night receipts were £30…
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The man he had punished was a tall, stalwart person of five and twenty years, who possessed, apparently, the strenght of a Hercules. He was…
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The members of the Prince of Wales Bicycle Club of Sydney intend holding a great day's carnival on the Newcastle Cricket Club's ground on May 9th. A…
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A low, long, shrill whistle was uttered a few yards behind them. Ibrahim, grasping his arm more tightly, came to a halt…
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Abdallah led out the Barbary steed, which reared and snorted at his touch, and secured it to a neighbouring tree. Then he unfastened the chain which…
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SHE was protected by an old Arab, bearded like a desert sheik, who wore the long, flowing garments and peculiar head-gear of his race, and who, squatting…
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IN the first swift perils of the simoom of which we left her assailed, Florry Howe believed that her last hour had come…
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