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Shows & fairs, 1864

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The New Zealand Exhibition. (From the Otago Daily Times, April 25.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 May 1864 · page 2

WITH feelings of very great pleasure we direct attention to the following correspondence in relation to the New Zealand Exhibition. It will be perceived from it that the commission has…

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The Speech of Sir John Young at the N. S. W. Agricultural Society's Dinner. (From the Yeoman, May 7.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 May 1864 · page 6

WE beg to call the attention of our readers in general to the excellent discourse of Sir John Young, at the meeting of the Sydney Agricultural Society, the chief portion of which they will find substantively reported in page 507…

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Orange Agricultural Exhibition. [From the Western Examiner, May 14)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 May 1864 · page 8

THE Orange Agricultural Association held their annual exhibition on Thursday, on an open space of ground in front of the Globe Hotel. The interest taken by all classes was shown by the large attendance of visitors. The general opinion expressed was that…

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Orange Agricultural Exhibition

Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 May 1864 · page 10

THE Orange Agricultural Association held their annual exhibition on Thursday, on an open apace of ground in front of the Globe Hotel. The interest taken by all classes was shown by the large attendance of visitors. The general opinion expressed was that…

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Molong Agricultural Society

Empire · Tuesday 24 May 1864 · page 8

THE first show of this society was held at Molong on Thursday. The attendance, taking everything [?]o consideration, was good, and included many visitors from the surrounding districts. The being the first meeting,…

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The New York Sanitary Fair. (From the Daily News.) New York, April 6

Empire · Wednesday 22 June 1864 · page 3

IN giving you some account a few weeks ago of the organisation and working of the sanitary commission, I mentioned, but only mentioned, the efforts that were being made to fill its…

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The Lord Lieutenant at the Gattle Show

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 6 July 1864 · page 2

His Excellency has been in great luck this week. A bridegroom on the wedding morning, a midwife at the blithe meat, or a farmer at the harvest home, could not be more joyous, more…

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Hardly Fair

Sydney Punch · Saturday 9 July 1864 · page 2

IN Tuesday's Herald we note an advertisement of "Eligible apartments, with partial board." In what way is the partiality exhibited? Would not boarders, generally, prefer impartial treatment at the festive board of these boarding-houses--a just apportionment of the best cuts,…

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Great Irish National Fair

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 July 1864 · page 1

The 28th of March was the long-looked for day set apart for the inauguration of the great Irish National Fair. In order that a suitable display might be made worthy of the cause for…

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A Fair and Square Race

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 16 July 1864 · page 2

The N. Y. Sunday Mercury, of a recent date, says: "We saw a good square race the other night between two steamers in the Bowery—one a black-topped stove[?]pipe concern, and the other shining all with polished…

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Donnybrook: Its Fair and Its New Church. (Cor. of Weekly Register.)

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 3 August 1864 · page 2

Near Dublin is the far famed Donnybrook. Coming from Bray, along the Stillorgan-road, on a summer everting, when the setting sun flings over its bright mantle of retiring, splendour, it…

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Who Will Show Us Any Good? Speranza. Duffy's Hibernian Magazine for May

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 10 August 1864 · page 6

Beautiful Ireland! Who will preach to thee? Souls ate waiting for lips to vow; And outstretched hands that fain would reach to thee,…

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Gaming at Baden. ("Baden Vanity Fair," in the Dublin University. Magazine)

Empire · Monday 22 August 1864 · page 3

GET near the table; and if you do win you can only recover your stakes by a f[?]erce stretch or lunge. Privateer old ladies are doing a brisk business; snapping up at the proper moment,…

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Opening of the Dublin Exhibition

Empire · Thursday 1 September 1864 · page 8

THEs Exhibition of Irish Manufactures held by the Royal Dublin Society, and which may be regarded at the great event of the present sesson here, was opened this day in tha presence of a very numerous, influential, and…

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Madame Sohier's Waxwork Exhibition

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 17 September 1864 · page 2

The attractivencess of this exhibition continues unabated, the additions made to it from time to time by the energetic proprietress maintaining the prestige of novelty so essential to the popularity of an exhibition of…

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Inverness Sheep and Wool Fair. (From the Inverness Courier Wool Market Circular.) Saturday Afternoon, July 16

Empire · Saturday 17 September 1864 · page 4

Our great annual market, the most important of the year for the whole Northern counties, commenced on Thursday, and terminated this afternoon. The attendance was larger then usual, owing no doubt to the great facilities for travelling by the…

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A Danish Fair. (From the London Morning Herald Correspondent.) Odense, July 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 September 1864 · page 3

A CHEAT annual fair is held at Odense in the month of July, extending over three days, from the 14th to the 17th. In the present year and under the afflicting position of the island many considered it would be…

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New Zealand Exhibition, 1865

Empire · Friday 30 September 1864 · page 2

The following amended and furhter instructions have been drawn up for the informaion of Local Committees and Exhibitors and it is particularly requested that when possible, they may be strictly adhered to…

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New Zealand Exhibition of 1865. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Friday 30 September 1864 · page 2

SIR,—The enclosed printed document relating to the above reached us this morning, and we shall be glad, if you consider it of sufficient importance, to notice it in your journal…

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A Very Fair Lawyer

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 1 October 1864 · page 3

We have read and heard a good deal of female graduates atour Universities, female doctors, female printers, &c. and their gradually becoming recognised as a pormancut [?]istitution in the mother country, but we were not aware that…

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