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Shows & fairs, 1878

752 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 38

No International Exhibition

Evening News · Thursday 8 August 1878 · page 2

There was a strong meeting of the Council of of the Agricultural Society yesterday, when consideration was given to the protest of the stockowners to the Agricultural Society, taking in hand the matter…

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The International Exhibition. To the Editor

Evening News · Friday 9 August 1878 · page 3

SIR,—Permit the, through your valuable paper, to expert any feelings of delight in reference to the Colonial Sectary's refusal to advice the grant of £10,000 towards the pa[?] exhibition; and I can only now hope that the matt…

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The International Exhibition. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 August 1878 · page 5

Sir,—I think every public-spirited inhabitant of this colony must feel deeply humiliated by the present position of the project of holding an International Exhibition in Sydney in August, 1879. It has become abundantly…

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 228
Also in Evening News, Australian Town and Country Journal

The usual monthly Council meeting of this society was held on Wednesday, Mr. W. Wallis in the chair. The attendance was unusually large, there being present members of Council and vice-presidents to the number of about…

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The Agricultural Society's Council. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 5

Sir,—I have just seen by your report that eighteen members of the Council of the Agricultural Society, consisting, I am told, of a small combination of stockowners, auctioneers, commission agents, the chief inspector of stock, and a…

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The Month. the Intercolonial Exhibition

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 3

It is now altogether too late to retreat. The Exhibition must be held and eveiy niau in the Colony must do his best to secure the perfect success of the movement. And the Government, too, will see that it must…

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The Approaching Singleton Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 217

The programme of the ground arrangements for the ensuing Singleton show, to be holden on Wednesday and Thursday, the 14th and 15th instant, appears in our advertising columns. Regarding this event the…

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New South Wales at the Paris Exhibition

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 5

VISITORS declare that, of all the group of British Dependencies, the palm must be awarded to New South Wales, for having brought to the contemplation of the European mind-which is really just now the mind of the…

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Corowa Agricultural and Pastoral Society's Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 215

THE second show of this society was held on August 1, at the show ground on the bank of the river, and was considered a decided success, it being the largest show ever held in the district. Notwithstanding there was a heavy…

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Important Decision of the Agricultural Society

Evening News · Monday 12 August 1878 · page 2

The following resolutions were passed at the executive meeting of the Agricultural Society, this morning:—"That the committee, having taken into consideration the resolutions passed by the council on…

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The Agricultural Society's Council. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 August 1878 · page 6

Sir,—I have read in your paper this morning, a letter headed as above and signed "An Old Agriculturist," to which I should like to say a few words in reply, as certain statements therein made are entirely opposed to facts, and…

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Important Decision of the Agricultural Society. To the Editor

Evening News · Wednesday 14 August 1878 · page 3

SIR,—I notice in your paper this evening a paragraph headed as above, being a copy of a resolution carried by a majority of the executive committee of the council of the Agricultural Society., to the effect that notwithstanding the resolutions…

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 August 1878 · page 5

Sir,—Yesterday, the majority of the Executive Committee of the Council of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales not only passed, but went out of their way to publish, through the Press, the following extraordinary resolution,…

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The Paris Exhibition. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 August 1878 · page 5

Sir,—As an old Australian, and an exhibitor at the Great Paris Ex[?]position of 1878, it gives me much pleasure to give my fellow-colonists my own impressions of what I saw whilst in Paris last week. New South Wales was, as it…

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The Paris Exhibition. (From Our Correspondent, [?] Paris, June 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 August 1878 · page 7

The Prince [?] of Wales came over here at the end of last week, to honour with his genial presence the opening of the "Trophy" of Gre[?] Britain's magnificent c[?]nial dependencies, in o[?] of the…

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The Exhibition of 1879. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 August 1878 · page 6

Sir,—In your issue of to-day I find a letter signed "A Member of the Council"—evidently one of the nineteen out of its sixty-three members who, in opposition to the ruling of the chairman, decided on ignoring the resolution passed…

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Northern Agricultural Society

Evening News · Thursday 15 August 1878 · page 3

FOR years past no gathering of the sort has been more popular, or deseved so well its popularity as that held under the auspices of the above society, at Singleton; for the show of…

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The Agricultural Society of Kew South Wales. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 August 1878 · page 5

Sir,—Will the minority of the Executive Committee of the Agricultural Society, whose letter appears in this day's issue, let me know the component elements of said minority, and also give me the names of the refractory majority…

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