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Shows & fairs, 1878

752 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 38

The Exhibition

Evening News · Friday 22 March 1878 · page 3

The forthcoming Exhibition promises to be very successful, judging from the Arrangements already improvised. Yesterday the acting secretary, Mr. H. M. Wright, and others visited Prince Alfred Park…

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Our Exhibition Building

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 23 March 1878 · page 14

THIS was erected some years ago by the Corporation of Sydney for the use of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales. It is of large extent, and occupies a position…

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The Forthcoming Metropolitan Exhibition

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1878 · page 357

THE entries for the agricultural division of the forthcoming Exhibition of the New South Wales Agricultural Society, which should have closed on the 15th instant, were not quite ready for publication on the 20th instant, and from what w…

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The Goldsbrough Wool Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 March 1878 · page 18

I [?] to offer a few remarks respecting the late grand exhibition of merino wool at the warehouse of Messrs. Goldsbrough and Co., Melbourne. Idos[?] because little has yet been said in the New South Wales papers on…

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Tumut Agricultural and Pastoral Exhibition

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1878 · page 369

THE third annual show of the Tumut Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held on Tuesday, the 19th instant. The absence of the usual heat and dust was duly appreciated by the large gathering of holiday-makers who flocked…

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Paris Exhibition, 1878—Executive Commissioner for New South Wales

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 23 March 1878 · page 14

THE Government of New South Wales have appointed Edward Combes, Esq., of Glanmire, Executive Commissioner to represent the Colouy at the Paris Exhibition of 1878…

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The Braidwood P. and A. Society's Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1878 · page 358

THE third show of the above society was held on the 14th instant in the racecourse paddock, upon the ground set apart for the society. The day was a very pleasant and agreeable one, the heat of the Run, which has been unusually…

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The Exhibition

Evening News · Monday 25 March 1878 · page 2

Active preparations for the approaching Exhibition, in Prince Alfred Park, are being daily made on the Exhibition grounds and at the Agricultural Society's Rooms. We understand that the entries…

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Government Notices. Government Railways. Great Southern. Western, and Richmond Lines. Hawkesbury Agricultural Show, 26th MARCH, 1878

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 March 1878 · page 6

EXCURSION TICKETS at a single fare for the double journoy will be issued at all stations to Richmond on the above day, available for return up to the 28th instant. Department of Public Works, Railway Branch,…

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Government Railways. Overland to Sydney. Randwick Races and Metropolitan Agricultural Exhibition, Sydney, Easter, 1878

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 March 1878 · page 7

Return Tickets, £8 10s each, will be isstted from SATURDAY, the 13th to 22nd April, available for return for one month. NOTICE is hereby given that arrangements have been…

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The Hawkesbury Show

Evening News · Thursday 28 March 1878 · page 3

ON Tuesday the Annual Pastoral and Agricultural Show of the Hawkesbury district was held on the Racecourse, alongside of the Clarendon platform; and the attendance was a very satisfactory one, considering that no effort whatever…

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The Land. the Agricultural Society of New South Wales

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 March 1878 · page 391

NEARLY two decades have passed away since our principal agricultural society, the offshoot of the old Cumberland Association, sprang into existence. The first of these was spent in Parramatta, the latter in the metropolis. The…

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The Metropolitan Exhibition

Evening News · Saturday 30 March 1878 · page 3
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

THE tenth Metropolitan Exhibition, under the auspices of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales opens on Tuesday, the 23rd of April cut, in Prince Alfred Park. Judging from the active preparations…

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The Hawkesbury Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 March 1878 · page 14

THE Hawkesbury Agricultural Society held its annual show last Tuesday, on the racecourse, which, as most of our readers know, is close alongside the railway platform at Clarendon, and as the railway department announced "single fares for…

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Paris Journal on the Universal Exhibition, of 1878

Evening News · Saturday 30 March 1878 · page 4

We nave received, through the courtesy of the Editor, M. Jules Brunfaut, a copy of L'EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE 1878, for February, the illustrated organ of the interests of the exhibitions. The…

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The Grazier. The Coming Stock Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 March 1878 · page 19

AMONG the arrangements annually made by the Agricultural Society for the exhibition in Prince Alfred Park none have been ao open to complaint, and given so much dissatisfaction, as those for the…

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Government Railway. Overland to Sydney. Randwick Races and Metropolitan Agricultural, Exhibition, Sydney, Easter, 1878

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 March 1878 · page 9

Return Tickets, £8 10s each, will be issued from SATURDAY, the 13th to 22nd April, available for return for one month. NOTICE is hereby given that arrangements have been…

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The Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1878 · page 5

THOSE who acquired pleasant and instructive associations at the Exhibit on last year, as well as those complaining of the too commonplace character of many of the wares in it, will be glad to know that the Council of the Agricultural…

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Maitland Show

Evening News · Monday 1 April 1878 · page 3

The annual show of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association takes place on Wednesday and Thursday next, on the Association Grounds. West Maitland, and the MERCURY says…

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