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Shows & fairs, 1843

13 stories in Sydney's papers

Original Correspondence. Fair Play and Wentworth. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 January 1843 · page 2

GENTLEMEN—Whether Mr Wentworth will condescend to answer your nameless correspondent s questions, I cannot undertake to assert But believing, from a very slight…

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Original Correspondeence. Fair Play. R. Wentworth, the Coolies, and the Operatives. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 January 1843 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—The cry of "No Coolies" as an election trick, and the question whether Coolies should or should not be imported, are two very different questions, although an…

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REVIEW. Edwin the Fair. An historical drama. By Henry Taylor, author of Philip Van Artevelds. London: 1842. John Murray, Albemarle-street

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 18 February 1843 · page 4

The volume which now is open before us presents two subjects for consideration; a very beautiful drama, and a very serious perversion of historical truth. Each profession, as experience shows, has…

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Fair Play. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 April 1843 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—In reply to a letter which appeared in the Australian of the 10th instant, with the above signature, allow me to say, that the free and independent electors of the…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, May 2, 1843. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Agricultural Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 May 1843 · page 2

WE noticed, the other day, with much pleasure, the late movement made at Parramatta for the establishment of an Agricultural Society for the county of…

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Some Ministers, However, Have Spoken Out, and the Following Discourse Will Show at Least, How One Has Executed the Task

The Teetotaller and General Newspaper · Wednesday 24 May 1843 · page 2

TEETOTALISM: or, the Voice of Happiness, Wisdom, and Benevolence. A Discourse delivered in the Town Hall, Alnwick, May 30, 1838. By the Rev. James Duncan, Warkworth. " Wine is a mocker."--Proverbs…

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The Agricultural Society. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 June 1843 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—In the Herald of this morning, there appears an advertisement detailing the objects of the Agricultural Society, about to be established in this and the adjoining…

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The Cumberland, Camden, and Cook Agricultural Society

The Australian · Friday 2 June 1843 · page 2

For several years past we have from time to time advocated, and hitherto with but too little effect, the very great advantage which would accrue to this Colony from the…

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Fair Channel, Bombay Harbour. Notice to Mariners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 July 1843 · page 2

EAST India House, London, February 15, 1843.—Notice is hereby given, that a floating light is stationed in the Fair Channel, into Bombay Harbour, about three quarters of a…

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First Report of the Agricultural Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 August 1843 · page 4

THE Committee of the Agricultural Association, we understand, are actively engaged in collecting materials to be embodied and published in the form of an…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, September 19, 1843. The House met at three o'clock. Smuggling.—the "Fair Barbadian."

The Australian · Wednesday 20 September 1843 · page 2

Dr. Lang presented a Petition from John Ross, praying the House to take into consideration the long confinement of twenty weeks ho hud already undergone in…

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Floricultural and Horticultural Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 September 1843 · page 3

THOUGH the unpropitious state of the weather, as well as the gloomy aspect of monetary affairs, had a very remarkable effect on the number of visitors, the show this year was…

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English Extracts. Fancy Fair at Hanwell Lunatic Asylum. (From the Times, May 18.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 October 1843 · page 4

A BAZAAR at a lunatic asylum—a sale of fancy work manufactured by the delicate fingers of patients incarcerated within the walls of a madhouse—are novelties in the…

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