Opening of the Melbourne Exhibition
THE Melbourne Exhibition was opened yesterday morning with great eclat and enthusiasm. The weather was cold, but fine. Enormous crowds, estimated at 400,000, gathered in the principal…
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Shows & fairs, 1888
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The Melbourne Exhibition
THE Melbourne Exhibition was opened on Wednesday morning with eclat and enthusiasm. The weather was cold, but fine. Enormous crowds, estimated at 400,000, gathered in the…
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ON Wednesday morning the Melbourne Exhibition was opened with great eclat and enthusiasm. The weather was cold but fine. Enormous crowds, estimated…
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The opening is over and gone, and the great people who are entitled to wear stars and garters, and all that, are gone home to get their long-deferred lunch. It was a long procession,…
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SUNNY, cloudy, showery; that is the description of weather we are having to-day (Wednesday)— the greatest day Melbourne has over witnessed. The greatest excitement prevailed everywhere yesterday…
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THE Exhibition was opened with great eclat and enthusiasm on Wednesday. The weather was cold but fine, and there were enormous crowds in the principal streets. The number is estimated at…
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The London journals this morning eulogise the success which marked the opening of the Melbourne Exhibition…
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ON looking back over the celebration of the opening of the Australian centennial exhibition I find two or three points of view standing out prominently from the others. The procession itself was something to…
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WHEN the centennial exhibition was first mooted, the Now South Wales government at once tendered an assurance that every possible assistance would be given to so…
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MR. GEORGE PILE of Sydney writes in reference to the Melbourne Exhibition as follows:--"The amount already expended by the commissioners amounts to about £200,000. The greater…
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Mr. William Brown, the Canadian Official Agriculturist, sails for Melbourne in the P. and O. Company's Rosetta. He is instructed to report on the Exhibition generally, and to give his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Correspondence. the Prize Cake at the Recent Show. to the Editor “ Burrangong Argus.”
SIR,—Hearing that a certain individual in the town gratuitously informed several visitor at the late Poultry and Pigeon show, as they viewed the ornamental cakes, that my exhibit was brought…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—In connection with the proposed aquatic carnival on the Brisbane River, Mr. J. A. Phillips, who is taking a leading part in the movement, has received a letter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burrangong P. and A. Association. Seventeenth Annual Exhibition
THERE are not a few of the older and larger-minded men who have closely watched the progress of this colony for many years, and have been prominently identified with its pastoral and agricultural…
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ACCORDING to announcement a meeting of gentlemen favourable to the holding of the usual show ball at Yass, on the night preceding the annual show, was held at Cross'…
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ALTHOUGH the late P. and A. society’s show was even on the admission of the President of the Association, a comparative failure, there were several exhibits .shown thereat which are. worthy…
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I[?] the people in this colony have not all gone rinkiug mad, a large proportion of them are at the present time manifesting a lively interest in what a writer has described as the “ lugubrious frivoling…
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As a rule sheep comprise the principal portion of the annual P. and A. shows in our district, but the sheep sections have not been So poorly represented for a long time as at tile late show, although it…
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THE 13th annual show, under the auspices of the Grenfell P. and A. Association, was held on Friday last, and although not up to the standard of former years, turned out better than was expected. The…
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SIR,—In your report of the recent P., P. and C. Show my name appears in the list of prizetakers (by a mistake). It appears that although the award was entered in the steward’s book and a…
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