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Shows & fairs, 1848

19 stories in Sydney's papers

It's Not Fair

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 February 1848 · page 3

THE following piece of drollery is extracted from "The Bairnsla Foaks' an' Fogmoor Olmenack, for 1847, be Tom Treddlehoyle, Esq."—an almanac in one of the provincial…

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Country News. Parramatta. Horticultural Show

The Australian · Friday 25 February 1848 · page 3

On Wednesday, the second exhibition of the Cumberland Agricultural, Floricultural, and Horticultural Society, took place at Parramatta. Taking into consideration the heavy…

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It's Not Fair

The Sentinel · Thursday 2 March 1848 · page 1

The following piece of drollery is extracted from " The Bairosla Foaks' an Fogmoor Olmenack, for 1847, be Tom Treddieboyle, Esq," --an almanack in one of the provincial…

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Autumn Flower Show

Sydney Chronicle · Thursday 2 March 1848 · page 2

THE Autumnal Show of the Floral and Horticultu-Society, took place yesterday, in one of the wings of the George-street Market, which is usually appropriated for that purpose. As might be expected,…

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Floral and Horticultural Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 March 1848 · page 2

ONE of our most pleasing periodical duties returns to us, in having to notice the Autumnal Exhibition of the Floral and Horticultural Society. The affairs of the institution have,…

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The Show Mania. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1848 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—The lay sermon which you some time ago published for our firm, has produced, as we learn, an amazing effect. Many respectable men who were unwittingly…

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Royal Victoria Theatre. Novelty!!! To-morrow Evening, 6Th May, 1848. Beautiful Scientific Exhibition of Dissolving Views! And newly-discovered Optical Instrument the Chromatrope. Mr. J. W. New Land

The Australian · Friday 5 May 1848 · page 2

Will exhibit his beautiful collection of Dissolving Views! (as shown at the Polytechnic, Adelaide Gallery, &c.) and DAZZLING CHROMATROPS! by the aid of the Celebrated…

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Original Correspondence. Bring then those blessings to a strict account; Make fair deductions; see to what they mount.--POPE. To the Editors of the Sydney Daily Advertiser

The Sydney Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 June 1848 · page 2

Gentlemen,--Differing, as I do, with Dr. Bland upon his views respecting paid for immigration, and the distresses which he considers to have been consequent upon this drain: I beg to…

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Windsor. Hawkesbury Agricultural Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 July 1848 · page 3

IT was intended that a meeting of members of this Society should take place on Saturday last, the 1st July, but from some unaccountable neglect scarcely any notice was promulgated,…

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Fashions Foretold for the Fair. (From Punch.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 August 1848 · page 3

THE Ladies are sadly puzzled to understand the articles appearing in the newspapers under the heading " Money Market and City Intelligence." They wonder how the prospects of…

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Flower Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 September 1848 · page 2

As we announced in our issue of yesterday, the Spring Exhibition of the Australian Floral aud Horticultural Society took place yesterday, in the Market shed A…

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Sketches From Vanity Fair a Sporting Parson and his Wife

The Australian Sportsman · Saturday 21 October 1848 · page 1

The Reverend Bute Crawley was a tall, stately, jolly, shovel-hatted man, far more popular in his county than the Baronet his brother. At college he pulled stroke-oar in the…

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Sketches From Vanity Fair a School Turn-up

The Australian Sportsman · Saturday 28 October 1848 · page 1

Cuff, was the great chief and dandy of the Swishtail Seminary. He smuggled wine in. He fought the town-boys. Ponies used to come for him to ride home on Saturdays. He…

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Sketches From Vanity Fair The Collector of Boggley Wallah

The Australian Sportsman · Saturday 4 November 1848 · page 3

Joseph Sedley was twelve years older than his sister Amelia. He was in the East India Company's Civil Service, and his name appeared, at the period of which we write, in the Bengal…

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Sketches From Vanity Fair Chapter Vi. Vauxhall

The Australian Sportsman · Saturday 25 November 1848 · page 1

I know that the tune I am piping is a very mild one, (although there are some terrific chapters coming presently) and must beg the good-natured reader to remember, that we are only…

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Australasian Botanic and Horticultural Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 December 1848 · page 2

THE recently formed society—taking to itself the comprehensive title of the Australasian Botanic and Horticultural Society, may now be considered to have firmly established itself…

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Royal Agricultural Society of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 December 1848 · page 3

YORK, JULY 11.—The society commenced the business of its meeting at York by opening its implement yard for public inspection at eight o'clock this morning. Before, however,…

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The Australian Floral Show

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 9 December 1848 · page 3

If nature and art had been taxed to lavish their resources in the production of a spot fitted to do justice to the beauties of Flora, they could not have achieved a more triumphant record of…

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Sketches From Vanity Fair The Sporting Son of the Sporting Parson

The Australian Sportsman · Saturday 16 December 1848 · page 1

It must not be imagined that Mr. Pitt Crawley's artifices escaped the attention of his dear relations at the Rectory at Queen's Crawley. Hampshire and Sussex lie very close…

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