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64 stories in Murray's papers · page 3 of 4
The Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880 was opened on Friday last with great eclat, about 7000 persons being pre-ent in the building, and a multitude outside, in the grounds, on the occasion. The ceremony…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Several Intercolonial Exhibitions hare been celebrated in Melbourne. The first was held in a hideous glass building, which was built for the occasion near the old Treasury, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DAUGHTER Of liberty! to thee we raise This pile industrial, and this song of praise. Commerce! of Freedom still the guiding tar, Victoria welcomes thee from isles afar…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In traversing the events which have led up to the remarkable culmination of an International Exhibition in a colony little more than forty years of age, we may, without fear…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The national event, to which the [?] thousands had been turned for month[?] expectation, is over. The Great [?] Exhibition was opened on Friday [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Melbourne international Exhibition was opened on Friday, 1st inst., with great eclat, enthusiasm and the grandest success. The weather was boisterous, dull and dusty,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In my first letter 1 said little or nothing of the building, so I will now devote a short space to it. It has anything but an imposing appearance, and would [?] one more of an enclosed cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This letter I shall devote to a description of the New South Wales Court, which I haven't had time to examine very minutely yet, but what I did see proved very satisfactory, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The great Victorian Exhibition, one of the best ever held—as is freely acknowledged—is now in so forward a state that I am able to take it up in a complete manner. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,--[?] me to correct an error in the list of prize takers at the Rutherglen Show, as published in your issue of the 22nd inst. In class J. (Implements): The "Best Single…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On entering the Ladies court I was [?] by the meagreness of some of the exhibits. I expected to see our ladies of Victoria would have made a better show of their handiwork seeing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In my last letter I gave you a hasty sketch of some of the principal exhibits of the New South Wales Court and I now comment in this on a number of exhibits which I did not before…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Although at the opening the various art galleries were in a fairly advanced stage, some time elapsed before they were perfected. The German Art Gallery was not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr visit to the above-named gallery being but a very short one, I am unable to do more than give my readers an extremely slight account of the treasures contained in it, for many days might be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I am now about to close this series of letters, and cannot do better than to give, first, an idea of the leading features of the foreign courts, and then to finish my labors with an article or two specially…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A CASUAL glance over the Exhibition must convince the most unobservant that British and Foreign countries have come here to trade, and not from any desire to please…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MUCH that has been written about art in glass applies to art in clay. Opaque glass articles are made to vastly resemble the same in clay, even to the imitation of that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In taking a glance around this court again, some of the most important exhibits, representing every industrial science in the colony, are met with. The Melbourne manufactures muster…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ENGLISH people are great tea-drinkers, more so than any other nation, except, perhaps, the Russians; the French, Italian, and Levantine countries consuming coffee,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NOT the least interesting to visitors are the exhibits in the main British Court, which is situated to the left of the main avenue in the principal annexe. Indeed, the exhibits…
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