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Shows & fairs, 1878

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Heavy Weather.—Industrial Show

Evening News · Monday 1 April 1878 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.—The weather on Saturday and Sunday was very cold and bleak, with heavy squalls from the south-west, accompanied by much rain. The rainfall, since the beginning of…

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Telegrams This Day. Another International Exhibition

Evening News · Tuesday 2 April 1878 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—The Executive Committee of the National Association intend to interview the Premier to ask the Government to take steps to announce to the British and Colonial…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 April 1878 · page 7

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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Agricultural Society of New South Wales

Evening News · Wednesday 3 April 1878 · page 3

The usual mommy meeting of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales was held tills forenoon, Dr. Jenkins presiding. There wu a fair attendance of members. Minutes of…

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Exhibition of Science and Art

Evening News · Wednesday 3 April 1878 · page 3

One of the meet entertaining and instructive collection of scientific mechanical und art specimens was opened last night in the Baptist Church, Bourke-street, near the gasometer. The proceeds were in aid…

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 April 1878 · page 6

THE usual monthly meeting of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales was held in the Rooms, George-street, yesterday morning. Present:—Dr. Jenkins (in the chair), Messrs, E. B. Woodhouse, Lamb, Dr. Tucker, Messrs. E…

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The Hunter River Agricultural Society's Show. [By Telegraph.] [From Our Special Reporter.] West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 April 1878 · page 5

THE weather proved very favourable for the opening of the show to-day, and the ground was in first-class order. The arrangements were good; judging was completed before lunch,…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 April 1878 · page 7

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 Hunter River Agricultural Society's Show. [By Telegraph.] [From Our Special Reporter.] West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 April 1878 · page 5

THE second day of the show was very successful. Six thousand persons attended:£267 was taken at the gates. The total receipts for the two days are£331. The special trains were crowded, but no accidents…

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The Approaching Exhibition

Evening News · Friday 5 April 1878 · page 2

During the week the acting-secretary, Mr. A. W. Wright, and his staff of employees, have striven to their utmost in carrying out the [?]minary arrangements to make the approaching Metropolitan…

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Maitland Agricultural Show

Evening News · Friday 5 April 1878 · page 3

THE Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association have been holding their eighteenth annual show during the present week, the judging being got over on Wednesday, with the regular jub[?] on the following day, and the…

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The Hunter River Agricultural Society's Show

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 15

A TELEGRAM in Thursday's Herald States:—"The various sections do not display the strength of pass years although the entries are numerous, amounting to over 1000. Blood…

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The Hunter River Agricultural Society's Show. West Maitland

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 440

The second day of the. show was very successful. Six thousand persons attended ; £267 was taken at the gates. The total receipts for the two days are £331. The special trains were crowded, but no accidents…

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Metropolitan Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 13

—During the past week, the indefatigable acting-secretary, Mr. A. W. Wright, and his staff of employees, have striven to their utmost in carrying out the preliminary…

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A Fair Subject for a Prize at the Approaching Agricultural Exhibition. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 32

SIR,—Considering the complaints, both loud and deep, which have been so frequently of late poured out upon the Sydney "'bus" companies and proprietors, it is a fair question whether it would not be worth while for the…

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Maitland Agricultural Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 14

THE Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association have been holding their eighteenth annual show during the present week, the judging being got over on Wednesday, with the regular jubilee on the following day; and the…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 10

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 · Thursday 11 April 1878 · page 5

THE Agricultural Society took possession of the Exhibition Building and the grounds of Prince Alfred Park yesterday, and the reception of goods for display there will be of immediate occurrence. So far there is not a great deal to…

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The Bathurst Show

Evening News · Thursday 11 April 1878 · page 2

BATHURST, Wednesday.—Great preparations are being held for our exhibition to be held on the 16th and 17th. Cheap fares will be issued at Sydney on Monday next. There is considerable…

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The Orange Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1878 · page 484

BOUND for Orange, the great agricultural district of the west, your correspondent left Sydney by train on Tuesday to take part, for the first time, in the proceedings of an agricultural show on the Western line. The journey,…

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