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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1879

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Sydney Agricultural Show

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 April 1879 · page 4

THE Metropolitan Exhibition was opened yesterday by Sir Alfred Stephen in Prince Alfred Park. Live stock are the chief feature. The agricultural implements and machinery are good. The fine arts…

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Agricultural Society's Exhibition. Sydney

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 23 April 1879 · page 2

THE attendance at the exhibition to-day was large, as the fee for admission was only a shilling. Now that everything on the ground is arranged, it presents a very lively and interesting spectacle. The…

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Strike of Carpenters at the Exhibition Building .Sydney

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 April 1879 · page 2

About 170 of the carpenters em-ployed at the Exhibition building left their work this morning and held a meeting in the Outer Domain near…

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Local and General. Sydney International Exhibition. Meetings of Yass Sub-committees

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 April 1879 · page 2

LAST Wednesday afternoon the various subcommittees appointed to carry out arrangements for having the district of Yass suitably represented at the forthcoming International…

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Strike at the Sydney Exhibition

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 April 1879 · page 10

ON Thursday, a deputation from a portion of the carpenters engaged on the Exhibition waited upon Mr. J. Young, requesting a rise of wages from 103. £0 12s. per day of eight…

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Strike of Carpenters at the Exhibition Building

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 26 April 1879 · page 3

About 170 of the carpenters employed at the Exhibition building left their work- this morning and the Outer Domain near Bourke,s to consider the question of the disparity…

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Yass International Exhibition Committee

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 29 April 1879 · page 2

A MEETING of the abovenamed committee was held yesterday afternoon at the Court-house-- Mr. Leopold Yates in the chair. The other gentlemen present were Messrs. Rees Jones, J…

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Intercolonial Exhibition

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 30 April 1879 · page 3

THE Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition of 1879 closed on Saturday, after having been open six days. The park, however, will be ill charge of the Agricultural Society until Sunday…

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The International Exhibition

The Yass Courier · Friday 2 May 1879 · page 4

The rapid progress being made with the International Exhibition building must be very gratifying to all who take an interest in the success of the project, and especially…

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The International Exhibition

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 May 1879 · page 10

THE Live Stock Committee has agreed to recommend to the Commission a change in the dates for the live stock shows. The arrangements proposed is as follows:— For…

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International Exhibition, 1879

The Burrowa News · Friday 9 May 1879 · page 3

WE have received the appended communication from the secretary to the Commission, for public information:— Macquarie street,…

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Altering the Exhibition Building

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 May 1879 · page 4

NOTWITHSTANDING the apparent invulnerable nature of the Premier, he, like all other mortals, is sensitive to . the castigations of the argumentum ad hominum, when made…

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The International Exhibition

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 May 1879 · page 6

ARRANGEMENTS have been made by which the Belgian exhibits were to go to London. A special steamer of the Orient line was to be despatched for them. In Germany Mr…

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The Cost of the International Exhibition

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 May 1879 · page 4

THE following copy of the letter dated December 23, 1878 of the Colonial Architect to the Colonial Secretary, submitting a plan or sketch of the…

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The International Exhibition

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 June 1879 · page 2
Also in The Burrangong Argus

THE exhibition building will cost a great deal more than was at first expected; but there is to be remembered that it bids fair to have a very much closer resemblance than we expected to the fairy palace of…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. [From Our Correspondents.] Sydney, June 6. International Exhibition Telegrams

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 June 1879 · page 4

The south-west quarter of the Exhibition buildings, allotted to Europe, is now completed, and the decoration will be finished in a few days. The ground floor is also…

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Exhibition Telegrams

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 June 1879 · page 4

A telegram has been received asking for the reservation of four thousand feet of space for Japan, and stating that a. commissioner has been appointed and will shortly be on his…

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International Exhibition

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 June 1879 · page 8

FROM recent advices it seems that nearly every country in Europe and Africa and America will send exhibits to the Sydney International Exhibition. The Aconcagua…

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Sydney International Exhibition. 8 p.m

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 June 1879 · page 2

A telegram has been received asking for the reservation of some 4000 feet of space for Japan, and stating that a Commissioner is appointed and will shortly be on his…

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