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Shows & fairs, 1844

25 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2

Hunter River Agricultural Society

The Australian · Tuesday 16 January 1844 · page 3

We perceive that this excellent Society continues its proceedings with that spirit and energy, that cannot fail of placing it in the most honourable rank of Agricultural…

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Maitland. Hunter River Agricultural Society

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 3 February 1844 · page 4

A meeting of the committee of the above society was held at the Rose Inn on Tuesday last, Mr. Pilcher in the chair. After the minutes of the preceding meeting had…

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Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1844 · page 4

THE show of cattle, flax, butter, farming implements, &c., took place at Belfast on Thursday, and an exhibition equally magnificent was never before witnessed in the…

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Hunter River Agricultural Society

The Australian · Thursday 29 February 1844 · page 4

A Meeting of the Committee was held on Tuesday last, at the Rose Inn, Mr. Doyle in the Chair. A communication was received from the…

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South Australia. South Australian Agricultural Society

The Australian · Thursday 29 February 1844 · page 3

It is almost with feelings of shame we subjoin the following extract. In every English and Colonial Journal that we receive, the proceedings of the various Agricultural…

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Domestic Intelligence. the Flower Show. Flowers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 February 1844 · page 2

The exhibition this season was perhaps inferior in variety to those of previous years; but in some particulars it evinced a decided improvement in Colonial Floriculture. We allude…

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Australian Floral and Horticultural Society's Show

The Australian · Thursday 29 February 1844 · page 4

This 'delightful and increasingly important exhibition of Colonial advance in Floral and Horticultural science, came off yesterday with an [?] which was alike…

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The Floral and Horticultural Society's Show

The Australian · Friday 1 March 1844 · page 3

"Quanto errando, oh quanto va Nel cercar la verita Chi dal vin lutgi si sta! Io stovvi appresso, ed or godendo accorgomi…

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Hunter River Agricultural Society

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 2 March 1844 · page 457

A meeting of the Committee was held on Tuesday last week at the Rose Inn, Mr Doyle in the Chair. Several new members were proposed and…

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Hortulan and Floral Exhibition

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 2 March 1844 · page 2

The enn[?] and dullness growing from bad times, was most agreeably relieved on Wednesday last, by the exhibition at the Market-shed, of flowers, fruits, and garden vegetable, which was attended by the…

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Liverpool Agricultural Society.—lord Stanley Upon Farming. Liverpool, Thursday, October 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 April 1844 · page 4

THE annual meeting of the above society for the show of live stock, agricultural implements, roots, seeds, &c., took place in this town to-day, in a field belonging…

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Exhibition of the Robinson Portable Lighthouse Over the Wreck of the Pegasus Steamer. (From the Berwick Warder.)

The Australian · Saturday 20 April 1844 · page 4

This remarkable invention for the preservation of human life in case of shipwreck belongs to an ingenious young chemist of London, Mr. John Robinson…

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News From the Interior. (From our various Correspondents.) Illawarra. Agricultural Society, and Mountain Road

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 April 1844 · page 2

APRIL 19.—In continuation of our last report of the 12th instant, containing the proceedings of the public meeting assembled on that day in the Market-square of the town of Wollongong,…

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A Fancied Fair

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 15 May 1844 · page 4

"The Duke of Wellington," says a correspondent of the Times, left his umbrella behind him, at a fancy lair, held for charitable purposes, between Twickenham and Teddington. On…

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Hunted River Agricultural Show

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 25 May 1844 · page 605

The first annual show of the Hunter River Agricultural Society took place on Tuesday, last week, and although the show of stock and produce was not so good as was expected,…

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The Australian Floral and Horticultural Society.—spring Exhibition

The Australian · Wednesday 25 September 1844 · page 2

IN England, there is no art which has made more rapid progress, since the pence of 1815 than gardening. Not only every gentleman's garden in the country boars evidence…

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Domestic Intelligence. Floral and Horticultural Exhibition. the September show took place yesterday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 September 1844 · page 4

The weather which has for some days prevailed had, as was anticipated, a most unfavourable effect on the exhibition, especially as regarded flowers; indeed; although…

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The Australian Floral and Horticultural Society's Spring Exhibition

The Australian · Thursday 26 September 1844 · page 2

"—Hither emerging from your orient skies BOTANIC GODDESS! bend thy radiant eyes; O'er these soft scones assume thy gentle reign, Pomona, Ceres, Flora in thy train…

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The Australian Horticultural and Floral Society's Exhibition

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 28 September 1844 · page 4

ON Wednesday last, the spring show of fruits, flowers, and hortulan productions, was held at the usual place in the market, and notwithstanding the late harsh and…

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The Australian Agricultural Society

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 9 November 1844 · page 233

The following discussion of the question may serve as an example to other agricultural associations, instituted, or which may be organized in the colony…

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