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Shows & fairs, 1870

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Is It Fair?

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 13

The Times of Tuesday publishes a long article on Mr. Gladstone's reply to the question of Lord John Manners with regard to the administration of the law in this country. With…

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The Council—the Carnival. Rome, February 25, 1870

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 3

The night of Giovedi Grasso was one of the wettest and wildest that you could well imagine, the rain came down in torrents, and there was scarcely a foot…

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The Agricultural Society's Approaching Exhibition

Evening News · Wednesday 1 June 1870 · page 3

CASUAL passers by the Prince Alfred Park must be struck by the progress that has been made in erecting the building wherein the annual show of the Agricultural Society is to be held; and malgree the mud, which…

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The Carnival at Home. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) Rome, March 4Th

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 June 1870 · page 3

THE Carnival, all the people here say, is a doomed institution, losing year by year its Roman and mediæval character. It is nothing, they say, to what it was when half the people…

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The Agricultural Society's Approaching Exhibition

Empire · Thursday 2 June 1870 · page 3

CASUAL passers by the Prince Alfred Park must be struck by the progress that has been made in erecting the building wherein the annual show of the Agricultural Society is to be held; and malgre the mud, which…

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The Agricultural Society's Approaching Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 5

SEVERAL of the stewards of the Intercolonial Exhibition met in the Alfred Park, on Monday afternoon last, to inspect the present state of the building, and a ground plan, showing the general arrangements of the…

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales

Evening News · Friday 17 June 1870 · page 3
Also in Empire, The Sydney Morning Herald

The exhibition committee held a meeting at the society's rooms on Wednesday, 15th instant, At 2.30; H. Reed, Esq., in the chair. Members present—Messrs. J. Barnet, A. Bruce. H. Beit, H. Bray, J. J…

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The Agricultural Society

Sydney Mail · Saturday 18 June 1870 · page 9

The following is a report of the last meeting of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales:— The monthly meeting of the council of this society was…

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 June 1870 · page 5

The exhibition committee held a meeting at'the society's rooms on Wednesday, 15th instant, 2.30; H. Reed Esq., in the chair. Members present— Messrs J Barnet, A Bruce, H Beit, H. Bray, J.J. Calvert T. Dawson H. Hall. C. H.Humphrey, J.J…

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Metropolitan Wine Show. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 June 1870 · page 2

SIR,—As our wine judges are now daily at work deciding on the merits of the numerous exhibits, sent for competition, the following note taken from a French work may be useful…

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 7
Also in Evening News, Empire

THE EXHIBITION COMMITTEE held its weekly sitting on Wednesday afternoon. The minutes of last meeting having been disposed of, the following correspondence was read:—1. From the Hon. the Chief Secretary covering the…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 4

THE "varying weather on Saturday last made one fear that further troubles in this respect were coming on the contractor for the Exhibition Building. Things, however, look brighter again this week. The progress now…

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The Rainfall. [To the Editor of the Agricultural Society's Journal, N. S. W.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 7

SIR,—Believing you to be interested in the rainfair of the Australian colonies, and especially of New South Wales at the present juncture, when such, an unprecedented fall is taking place, I take the liberty…

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Intercolonial Exhibition, 1870. To BOATBUILDERS. (Per favour of S. M. Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 June 1870 · page 6

SIR,—I am informed from "the very best authority," that application for space at the Great Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition has been already received from Melbourne, for the exhibition of boats, builtu a…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

Evening News · Friday 1 July 1870 · page 3

EXHIBITION matters are progressing steadily and satisfactority. The exhibition committee and the council have both done a vast amount of important work during the past week. Tenders for all the…

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 6

THE exhibition committee held its weekly sitting on Wednesday afternoon. The minutes of last meeting having been disposed of, the following correspondence was read:—…

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