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Shows & fairs, 1834

5 stories in Sydney's papers

To the President of the Agricultural Society, Swan River

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 20 March 1834 · page 3

SIR,—The Sydney Herald of yesterday, contains a report made by Mr. J. Harris, in September last, on the disease then raging in the flocks at Swan River, and as…

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Too Late; Or, a Day After the Fair

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 May 1834 · page 4

So many centuries have elapsed since Solomon informed the human kind there was 'a time for all things,—that the a[?]iom seems hardly worth repeating. Yet, which…

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Windsor Annual Fair

The Sydney Herald · Monday 9 June 1834 · page 4

GENTLEMEN, Graziers, and the Public generally are respectfully informed, that the Windsor Fair will be held at the Market-place. Windsor, on Tuesday the 10th day of…

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New Song. To the air of "Home, Sweet Home!" Said to have been sun by the fair fraii ones who arrived by the Steamer from Sydney, art nine o'clock on the night of Tuesday, the 26th of August, and who being is full spirit for a concert, en[?] in a style superior [?] Catalini's," on their war from the wharf to the [?] Factory—to [?] edification of the musical [?] of Parramatta, who were then about hastening [?]

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 10 September 1834 · page 4

From towns great and small, and from country we come, From all sorts of "places" we thus hasten [?] For the kind Captain graciously smiles on us there,…

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The Fair Pensioners

The Sydney Herald · Monday 22 September 1834 · page 2

Mrs. Harriet—I wish, my dear, this dreadful debate was over. I quite tremble to think what may be the end. Miss Rosamond—I do so too. But how…

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