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Shows & fairs, 1875

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The Approaching Exhibition

Evening News · Wednesday 17 March 1875 · page 2

The date of the entries for the Agricultural Society's Exhibition in April next has closed, and the exhibits, both from the number and character, promise to give to the exhibition a higher standard than…

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The Approaching Exhibition

Evening News · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 3
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

IT would appear from the number af entries in the various sections, and from the character of the exhibits already to hand, that the Agricultural Society's Show in Sydney, in April next, will be…

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The Grazier. Exhibition and Prohibition. Pedigree Stock and Their Breeders

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 14

I AM one of very many who, viewing pastoral affairs with a disinterested and unprejudiced eye, are sorry to learn that the Executive have thought it necessary to determine at this early stage of their Ministerial…

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Exhibition Arrangements

Evening News · Thursday 25 March 1875 · page 2

The Council of the Agricultural Society held a special meeting, yesterday morning, at which Mr. Joseph Thompson presided, Messrs. Lowe and Wallace were appointed to pay weekly accounts incurred…

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Philadelphia Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1875 · page 6

THE following correspondence respecting the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876, was yesterday laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly. No. 1.—The Victorian Commissioners for the Philadelphia…

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The Principal Under-Secretary to the Secretary of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales. Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 22nd March, 1875

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1875 · page 6

Sir,—I am directed by the Colonial Secretary to transmit to you, for the information of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales, the inclosed correspondence concerning the proposed representation of this colony at the…

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Hunter River Agricultural Show. [From Our Special Correspondent.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1875 · page 3

THE fifteenth annual exhibition of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association was held on the association's show ground, West Maitland, on the 23rd and 24th March. Patron, his Excellency Sir Hercules…

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No. 2.—Telegram from the Colonial Secretary, Sydney, to the Commissioners for the Philadelphia Exhibition. Sydney, 18th December, 1874

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1875 · page 6

Parliament will be asked to sanction the necessary expenditure for the representation of this colony, both in Melbourne and Philadelphia…

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No. 4.—Sir Redmond Barry to the Colonial Secretary, Sydney. Offices of the Commissioners for Victoria for the Philadelphian Exhibition of 1876. Melbourne, 16th March, 1875

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1875 · page 6

Sir,—I am requested by the Commissioners to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd of March, in reply to one addressed by me to your predecessor on the 12th of November, 1874…

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Hunter River A. and H. Association. Fifteenth Annual Show. [From Our Special Reporter]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 March 1875 · page 9

THE fifteenth annual show of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association (postponed from the 11th and 12th March, in consequence of the late disastrous flood) was opened on Tuesday, on the society's show grounds, West…

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Hunter River Agricultural Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1875 · page 393

THE fifteenth annual exhibition of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association was held on the association's show ground, West Maitland, on the 23rd and 24th March. Patron, his Excellency Sir Hercules…

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Hunter River [?] and H. Association. Fifteenth Annual Show

Evening News · Saturday 27 March 1875 · page 2

THE fifteenth annual show of the [?]unter River Agricultural and H[?] from the 11th and [?] of the [?] disastrous flood) was opened on Tuesday. on the society's show grounds, West…

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Schools at the Exhibition

Evening News · Monday 29 March 1875 · page 2

The Council of Education, acting in concert with the Council of the Agricultural Society, have Arranged mutters so as to enable all school children, even as far as Bathurst to Goulburn to visit the Exhibition—the…

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The Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition of 1875

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 March 1875 · page 5

DURING the past week a large number of workmen, under the superintendence of the society's officers, have been busily employed in preparing the interior of the Exhibition building for the reception of the articles…

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Great Southern, Western, and Richmond Railways. Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 March 1875 · page 6

TICKETS at a single fare for the double journey will be issued at all stations beyond Parramatta Junction to Sydney, from April 3rd to April 8th, available until April 20th…

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New South Wales Academy of Art. Fourth Annual Exhibition. First Day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 March 1875 · page 5

THE fourth annual exhibition of the New South Wales Academy of Art opened on Saturday, at Clark's Assembly Rooms, Elizabeth-street, and has proved decidedly the most attractive exhibition the society has yet been able to…

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Agricultural Society. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 March 1875 · page 2

SIR,—I am given to understand that the committee of the New South Wales Agricultural Society have passed, or intend to pass, a resolution prohibiting inoculated stook from being exhibited at the coming show…

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The Philadelphian Exhibition of 1876. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 March 1875 · page 2

SIR,—Are the public to understand, from the debate on Thursday,that the sum of £6000 is to be expended not o[?]lusively in furtherance of the object it Was voted for-an exhibition in Philadelphia—but to be divided in aid of…

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Metropolitan Exhibition in Altred Park

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 April 1875 · page 4

—On Tuesday next the annual industrial exposition takes place. In anti[?]pation of this great metropolitan event, there will be published with the Sydney Mail, this week, a double supplement showing the plan of the interior of…

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