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Shows & fairs, 1877

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Amusements. Bailey and Cooper's Show

Evening News · Friday 5 January 1877 · page 2

Patrons of the cirous will be glad to hear that the arrangements of Messrs, Bailey and Cooper for their departure for victoria will enable them to play a week longer in Sydney. Next Friday will, we understand…

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Lyall's Positive Motion Looms at the Philadelphia Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 January 1877 · page 17

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1877 · page 5

THE Council of the Agricultural Society of New South Waleshold their usual monthly meeting yesterday. Present: His Excellency the Governor (in the chair), and Messrs. J. J. Calvert, P. G. King, J. Devlin, T. Cadell, G. S. Yeo,…

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The Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition of 1877

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1877 · page 3

WITH the beginning of the year, the labour of preparing for the "Great Sydney Fair" commences. The sceptics who, when, this annual gathering was initiated in 1868, predicted that both the public and…

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Amusements. Bailey and Cooper's Show

Evening News · Thursday 11 January 1877 · page 2

Next Friday is announced to be positively the last night of the great circus and menagerie in the Hay market, which has been the chief attraction to playgoers for the last three or four weeks. The performance…

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales

Evening News · Friday 12 January 1877 · page 3

A MEETING of the Council of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales was held at the society's rooms on Wednesday. His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson, president, took the chair; and there were present—the…

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The Agricultural Society's Debate on Foot-and-mouth Disease. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1877 · page 6

SIR,—I spent an hour this morning in looking over some papers to see how far I was correct in the remarks I made yesterday, at the meeting of the Agricultural Society, in the debate which ensued as to the propriety of the removal of…

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Agricultural Society

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1877 · page 50

THE Council of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales held their usual monthly meeting on Wednesday. Present: His Excellency the Governor (in the chair), and Messrs. J. J. Calvert, P. G. King, J. Devlin, T. Cadell, G. S. Yeo,…

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 January 1877 · page 10

A MEETING of the Council of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales was held at the society's rooms on Wednesday. His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson, president, took the chair; and there were present the…

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Royal Academy Exhibition in 1787

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1877 · page 8

In 1794, the year Opie and Northcote were elected Academicians, and Reinagle and Francis Bourgeois Associates, Ramberg painted a picture of the Great Room in Somerset House. Sir Joshua is showing the Prince of Wales over…

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Close of the International Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1877 · page 7

THE International Exhibition closed on the 10th of November; and from first to last wa[?] attended by about 8,000,000 paying visitors, in addition to whom there were about 12,000…

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1877 · page 3
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YESTERDAY morning the annual meeting of this society took place at their rooms, George-street. There was a large attendance. His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson presided…

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales

Evening News · Wednesday 17 January 1877 · page 2

A special meeting of the Council of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales was held this forenoon. Present—Mr. W. Wallis (in the chair), and Messrs. J. N. Oxley, J. Alger, Devlin, Street, Greville,…

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The Forthcoming Universal Exhibition at Paris in 1878

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1877 · page 3

IN terms of the decrees issued by the Marshal President of the French Republic, on the motion of the Minister of Agriculture and Commorce, and of the Minister of Public Instruction and the Fine Arts, an Universal and…

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Agricultural Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1877 · page 7

YESTERDAY morning a special meeting of the Council was held at the society's rooms, George-strect. Present—Mr. Wallis in the chair, Messrs. J. Alger, J. Devlin, J. R. Street, Greville, J.N. Oxley, J.J. Calvert, G.F. Want,…

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Society Meetings. Agricultural Society of New South Wales

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1877 · page 83

THE annual meeting of this society took place at their rooms, George-street, on Monday last. There was a large attendance. His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson presided…

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Ore-crushing Machinery at the Philadelphia Exhibition

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1877 · page 8

The enermous quantity of stone and various ores which are annually crushed in this and other countries has stimulated the invention of a great variety of machines for doing this class of work. in this country, more perhaps than in…

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The Forthcoming Universal Exhibition at Paris in 1878

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1877 · page 70

IN terms of the decrees issued by the Marshal President of the French Republic, on the motion of tie Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, and of the Minister of Public Instruction and the Fine Arts, an Universal and…

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New South Wales at the American Centennial Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1877 · page 3

THE following letter from Mr. Augustus Morris, Executive Commissioner, has been handed to us for publication. Philadelphia, 27th November, 1876. Sir,—I have the honour to report that the International…

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