The Cumberland Agricultural Society
Empire · Thursday 9 July 1857 · page 2
It will be remembered that early in March last a meeting of agriculturists and others interested in the promotion of agriculture and its kindred pursuits, was held at Liverpool, for the purpose of taking into…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 July 1857 · page 2
TUESDAY, May 5th, was one of the proudest as well as gayest of days for Manchester. The most splendid collection of works of art which perhaps the world has ever seen, worthily rivalling the Great Exhibition of…
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Empire · Tuesday 21 July 1857 · page 5
We have been favoured with an inspection of the certificate of honourable mention granted by the international jury of the " Exposition Universelle de 1855," to Mr. J. V. Lavers, of Sydney,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 July 1857 · page 4
THE first Annual Meeting of the Australian Horticultural and Agricultural Society was held yesterday evening at the School of Arts, Pitt-street. Sir William Denison occupied the chair…
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Empire · Thursday 23 July 1857 · page 2
The first general annual meeting of the Australian Horticultural and Agricultural Society was held last night, in the School of Arts. About 70 members were present, and Sir W. Denison, president of the society, took the…
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Empire · Thursday 23 July 1857 · page 4
The Australian Horticultural and Agricultural Society held an exhibition of Camellias at the School of Arts yesterday. The attendance was small, owing no doubt to the unpropitious state of the weather. Shortly before…
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Empire · Thursday 23 July 1857 · page 4
The Camellia Show will be again thrown open to the public thin day, at 12 o'clock. Many of the specimens are choice and raro—indend three varieties are quite new to the colony—and are w[?]ll…
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Empire · Friday 24 July 1857 · page 5
The Camellia Show held by the Australian Agricultural and Horticultural Society at the School of Arts, was again thrown open to the public yesterday; but, tantalisingly enough, the weather…
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Empire · Friday 24 July 1857 · page 6
If the tendency of the Fine Arts is to cultivate the taste as well as to gratify it, the English public will this summer possess means which they have never before enjoyed in their own country, of realising both these advantages…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 July 1857 · page 4
IF properly seen to, it is hardly possible to over-estimate the advantages likely to accrue to the agricultural interests of the colony from the formation of the above named Society. The success of every new undertaking,…
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Empire · Wednesday 5 August 1857 · page 4
The Seventh Monthly Meeting of the Australian Horticultural and Agricultural Society was held last evening, at the Royal Hotel. There were about forty members present, including several ladies. His Excellency Sir…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 August 1857 · page 4
PURSUANT to advertisement, the seventh monthly meeting of this Society was held last evening at the Royal Hotel, and we are happy to state that in every way its success was acknowledged by the attendance,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 August 1857 · page 5
A MEETING of this Society was held at the Illawarra Hotel, Dapto, on Wednesday last, the 5th instant. At the commencement of the meeting about twenty persons were present, which number was subsequently…
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Empire · Thursday 13 August 1857 · page 6
A meeting of this Society was field at the Illawarra Hotel, Dapto, on Wednesday last, the 5th instant. At the commencement of the meeting about twenty persons were present, which number was subsequently doubled,…
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Empire · Thursday 13 August 1857 · page 5
The First Exhibition of Poultry by the Poultry Club recently formed, commenced yesterday afternoon, in the Botanical Gardens. A spacious marquee was erected for the purpose, and round its sides were constructed a…
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Empire · Friday 14 August 1857 · page 5
The exhibition of poultry in the Botanical Gardens was continued yesterday, and although the weather was as unfavourable as it well could be, the visitors were numerous, ladies forming a very good proportion. We…
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Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 15 August 1857 · page 2
Those of the inhabitants of Sydney who were not deterred by the threatening appearance of the sky, were much gratified by the exhibition of poultry in the Botanical Gardens on Wednesday and Thursday. Owing…
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Empire · Wednesday 2 September 1857 · page 4
The usual monthly meeting of the Horticultural and Agricultural Association was held last evening at the Royal Hotel, Mr. Wall in the chair. " There were about twenty members present, the comparative paucity…
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Empire · Tuesday 15 September 1857 · page 6
This Society, in accordance with adjournment, met on Wednesday last, at the Illawarra Hotel, Dapte, for the purpose of revising the Prize List and making arrangements for the Show and Ploughing Match. The…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 September 1857 · page 5
IN the Exhibition of the Royal Academy for this year we miss the works of two or three eminent contributors. We see a good portrait of, instead of a picture by, Sir Charles Eastlake. Mr. Maclise, however, makes…
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