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Shows & fairs, 1876

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Government Notices. Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 1st Msrch, 1876. Government Railways. Richmond and Windsor Railway. Hawkesbury Agricultural Show. 22nd and 23rd March, 1876

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 March 1876 · page 8

Tickets at a single far[?] for the double journey will be issued on the 22nd and 23rd instant, from all stations to Richmond, available for return up to 25th instant. JOHN RAE…

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Government Notices. Department of Publio Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 1st March, 1876. Government Railways. Richmond and Windsor Railway. Hawkesbury Agricultural Show. 22nd and 23rd March, 1876

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 March 1876 · page 2

Tickets at a single fare for the double journey will be issued on the 22nd and 23rd instant, from all stations to Richmond, available for return up to 25th instant. JOHN RAE…

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Hawkesbury Agricultural Asso­ciation Annual Show

Evening News · Friday 24 March 1876 · page 3

The annual show of the Hawkesbury Agricultural Association was opened on Wednesday, at the Show Ground, Windsor. The weather was tine, aud there was mi attendance of about fifteen hundred people…

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Liverpool Plains Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1876 · page 390
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

ALTHOUGH admittedly much inferior to its predecessors, the show of the above society at Tamworth merits a more extended notice than appeared in outlast, which was written early in the proceedings. Little more attention need be…

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Scotland. a Carnival of Intemperance

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 March 1876 · page 5

A heavy tale of drunkenness and its results comes to us as a New Year's gift of most unpleasant nature, from across the Border. One of our Glasgow correspondents…

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The Muswellbrook Show Sales

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1876 · page 390

ON Saturday last, the sales of stock and miscellaneous exhibits commenced before noon, and continued until a late hour. The market did not prove very active, and there was great difficulty experienced in placing the high-priced lots…

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The Hunter River Agricultural Association's Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1876 · page 393

THE sixteenth annual show of the above association opened on last Wednesday under auspices which were not of a very favourable nature. The morning was so cloudy that fears were entertained that heavy rain was bound to fall before…

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The Grazier. Wool in Relation to Science with Practice. (Extract from a paper by Earl Cathcart in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of 1875)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 March 1876 · page 14

As a rule the "woollen manufacturer"—and especially the maker of "broadcloths" or felted goods—uses a fine-haired, short-stapled wool, and endeavours to produce from it a yaru in which the fibres are transversely…

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Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association's First Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 March 1876 · page 27
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

THE people of Musclebrook have been distinguished for many years past for doing whatever they took in hand with zest, and excelling their neighbours in the nuity and good will with which they carried out any public undertaking. Their…

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The Hunter River Agricultural Association's Show. [From Our Special Reporter.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1876 · page 7

THE sixteenth annual show ot the above association opened on last Wednesaay under auspices which were not of a very favourabe nature. The morning was so cloudy that tears were eutertained that heavy raom was bound to fall before…

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A Show Van Burnt

Evening News · Tuesday 28 March 1876 · page 2

At the close of the Tumut show, hold last week, an untoward accident occurred fraught with serious consequences to the parties concerned. Spencer's Mechanical Exhibition was drawn up outside the ground…

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Philadelphia Exhibition. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 March 1876 · page 6

SIR,—In the official catalogue of New South Wales intended to be issued at the above, I think the cost of living, rates of wages obtainable, or in anything where money is mentioned, should be specified in dollars and cents, because there are [?]…

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Clarence River Annual Show

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Friday 31 March 1876 · page 4

On 14th and 15th March, the tenth annual show of the Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held, and although the weather was not auspicious, a goodly number of visitors attended. Following the example set by the…

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Tumut Agricultural and Pastoral Association. First Annual Exhibition

Evening News · Friday 31 March 1876 · page 4

ACCORDING to notification, this event came off on Tuesday week. The space set apart for the Show grounds was crowded with numerous visitors from the adjoining districts, many of whom expressed their satisfaction at…

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Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society Exhibition

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1876 · page 422

THE tenth annual exhibition of the Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society took place on the society's grounds on Tuesday and Wednesday, 14th and 15th ultimo. The attendance on the first day was rather limited, which we…

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Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society Exhibition. (Abridged from the Clarence and Richmond Examiner.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 April 1876 · page 9

THE tenth annual exhibition of the Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society took place on the society's grounds on Tuesday and Wednesday, 14th and 15th ultimo. The attendance on the first day was rather limited, which we…

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Maitland Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1876 · page 15

THE sixteenth annual show of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association took place on Wednesday and Thursday last. The attendance of the public was between 5000 and…

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The Bega Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1876 · page 423

THIS show came off on Friday, the 17th ultima, and was in every way a great success; and much praise is due to those gentlemen who had the conducting of the arrangements. Mr. Neilley, the secretary, was untiring in his…

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