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Shows & fairs, 1840

14 stories in Sydney's papers

Floral and Horticultural Show

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1840 · page 2

The first Show for this year, took place on Wednesday last, as announced, in the Market Building, set apart by the Governor, for such exhibitions. With…

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Miscellanea. Annual Exhibition at Prior Park College

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 31 March 1840 · page 4

The annual exhibition at the above invaluable establishment took place on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 9th and 10th ult. The general display of the…

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Agricultural Society

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 10 June 1840 · page 6

The Quarterly Meeting of the Members of this Society, took place at Guildfordon Friday, April 3. The members present were—E. B. Lennard, Esq. in the Chair, Messrs. Leake, Burges, Nash,…

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Domestic Intelligence. Agricultural Society

The Sydney Herald · Friday 19 June 1840 · page 1

We have suggested in several papers, that an Agricultural Society should be established in the Colony, to give settlers from every quarter of this vast continent an opportunity of concentrating their…

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Agricultural Society

The Sydney Herald · Friday 4 September 1840 · page 2

We have often urged upon influential Colonists, the propriety of establishing an Agricultural or Colonial Society, or Association for advancing the interests of…

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Agricultural Society

The Sydney Herald · Monday 7 September 1840 · page 5

In an article on this subject in our last, we introduced several notices of the Premiums paid by the Highland Society of Scotland, with a view to promote the…

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Floral and Horticultural Show

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 17 September 1840 · page 2

—The spring show of the Floral and Horticultural Society was held yesterday in the Market Building letter A, which was very tastefully decorated for the occasion with green bushes interwoven with wreaths…

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Domestic Intelligence. the Floral Society's Show

The Sydney Herald · Friday 18 September 1840 · page 2

The first show of this society for the season, tookplace in the Market Shed, which had been decked out for the occasion in a very tasteful manner. The building having been thrown…

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Floral & Horticultural Show

The Australian · Saturday 19 September 1840 · page 2

We give below a list of the prizes awarded to the respective individuals for their productions at the Floral and Horti-cultural Show on Wednesday last. The…

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The Forthcoming Exhibition at the School of Arts

The Colonist · Saturday 26 September 1840 · page 2

WE have been favoured with a private inspection of this exhibition, which consists of paintings and drawings, prints, sculpture, and medals, &c. Some of the pictures are by the old masters,…

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The Newly Married Fair

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Saturday 3 October 1840 · page 4

"Then come those full confidings of the past; All sunshine now where all was overcast. Then do they wander till the day is gone, Lost in each other; and, when night steals on,…

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The Fair

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 26 November 1840 · page 4

You may smile, readers, at the idea of a story enti[?]ed—The Fair; but read on, and you may find it an appropriate title to a touching, though simple tale. This may seem like…

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Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. (From the Cambridge Advertiser.) Cambridge, July 14

The Sydney Herald · Tuesday 22 December 1840 · page 2

At an early hour this morning the great mass of persons drawn hither from all parts of England by the approaching festivities, were up and on the qui vive to join the throng, which,…

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Sydney Monitor & Commercial Advertiser Saturday Morning, December 26, 1840. Nothing extenuate, nor aught set down in malice SHAKSPEARE. Thetford Wool Fair

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Saturday 26 December 1840 · page 2

OUR readers will perceive by the subjoined that the amount of business transacted at the last Thetford Wool Fair, held in July last, was not so large as usual. The growers, however,…

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