Exhibition Letters. VICTORIA—The Great Organ—"Blowing" by machinery—A Victorian that could not "blow"—Mr. Vale of no a-vail—More crockeryware—The Royal Worcester Porcelain Company—Ivory porcelain, and Japanesque decorations—An antique firm—Old Worcester—The art of glass-making—Messrs. Boulton and Mills—Artistic pottery and moderate prices—Wall-decoration—Nineveh and sun-dried bricks
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1881 · page 4
Wednesday, the 22nd ultimo, was a remarkable day at the Exhibition. The great organ, being at last quite finished, was to have displayed its full…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1881 · page 4
SYDNEY, Friday.—The show of wool in the Melbourne exhibition is stated to be the finest ever seen in the colonies. New South Wales has 20 exhibits from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Exhibition Letters. a Victorian Christmas—The Wine that Gladdeneth—St. Hubert's Vineyards—White Hermitage—Special Awards The Victorian Iron Rolling Company The "Cold Test"—Lilydale Marble—Carrara Mantelpieces—"Marble Halls"—The Great Organ
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 January 1881 · page 4
Christmas at the antipodes is an unmitigated imposture! Charles Dickens, though not given to cynical remarks, has left on record his private belief…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Exhibition Letters. The great Wool display—White wool and Yellow Gold—What might have been bought with £8000—Lost opportunities — Brinsmead's pianos—Their numerious improvements—Extraordinary honours — Singing Pianos
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1881 · page 3
THE exhibition on Carlton heights, has this week broken out in a sudden eruption of wool. Wool, wool, everywhere In the main avenue, the…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 January 1881 · page 4
"The patent tone sustaining pedal" prolongs any note or chord, without the discordant admixture of other sustained notes. After a chord or note…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 January 1881 · page 4
The fierce light that beats from a mid-summer sun, about the dome of the Exhibition building, falls piteously around the temporary annexes and machinery…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 January 1881 · page 2
LONDON January 25.—Great satisfaction is expressed at Geneva in connection with the Melbourne International Exhibition. The authorities there have ordered a full…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exhibition Letters. VICTORIA—The Australian fauna—The Platypus—The manufacture of furs—T. Macgregor's exhibit—Dr. Stanley's sarsaparilla—Mr. John Danks—A large exhibit—Brasswork, and its numberless applications—A colonial-made fire-engine—The Yan Yean water supply—Electro-plating in Victoria—Another public ceremony
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 February 1881 · page 2
The well-known fact of the fauna of Australia being entirely distinct from that of any other part of the globe, may be noticed by observant eyes to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exhibition Letters. Victorian timber—New application—John Roberts, the champion billiard player—Australian billiard tables—Cotton's Complete Gamester, A.D. 1676."—Shakespeare and billiards
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 February 1881 · page 3
"IT's a far cry to Lochiel, "runs the northern aphorism, and from log huts to billiard-tables seems to suggest a gulf as wide as that separating the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Exhibition Letters. Victoria—Colonial—grown tobacco—Messrs. Dudgeon and Arnell—Improved Manufactures—Three first prizes— Copious nomenclature—Careful preparation necessary—Messrs. Draper and Sons—Another City of Seven Hills—Awards—New York and 1888—Going, going—The Emperor of Germany's great prize continued to Victorian exhibitors
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 February 1881 · page 4
THE "Medal and Award" stage in the brief life of international exhibitions has at length arrived—a stage on the journey, however, which is the prelude…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Exhibition Letters. The Horticultural Show—Pomona to the fore—South Australian and Queensland fruit—Button-hole bouquests—Labour-saving inventions—Mr. Arthur Hope's stonebreaker—Great improvements—Applicable to mining and quartz-crushing—First Order of Merit—The Emperor of Germany's prize—The Sydney Gallery of Pictures
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 February 1881 · page 4
THE great scene-shifter at the International Exhibition drama now running at Carlton has withdrawn the wool display, and replaced it for a few…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 February 1881 · page 2
LONDON, February 24.—The proposal to hold an International Exhibition at New York, in 1883, hangs fire. A site has been secured at Inwood, in…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1881 · page 2
LONDON, February 26.—The subject of an International Exhibition in 1888 has been brought before Congress, and it has been resolved that an official invitation, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exhibition Letters. a panoramic view—The camera obscura—What is sometimes seen there—A caution—Another labour-saving machine—An old Scotch song rendered obsolete—Wolter and Echberg's washing machines—Case of manipulation.—Perfection of result—Messrs. Wm. Dean and Co., of Flinders Lane—Beauty and colour
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 March 1881 · page 3
THE view of Melbourne, Hobson's Bay, and the surrounding country, as seen from the top of the Exhibition seems to increase in popularity, the receipts…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1881 · page 2
WE are in receipt of the schedule of prizes for the first annual show of fruit, vegetables, and flowers, in connection with the Northern Agricultural Association…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exhibition Letters. The Grain Show—The wheat trophy—New South Wales and S. Australia—Hops from Bairnsdale—"Hopping" in Kent—The "bitters" we all like—Antiquity of hops—An Anglo-Saxon word—An Australian Kent—More home manufacturers—Messrs. Porteous and Gibaud—Their exhibit—Brushes and bristles—The wild boar—Variety of excellence—Saturday at the Exhibition
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 March 1881 · page 4
The Grain Show has been the special feature of the week at the Exhibition. Ceres had a trophy erected in her honour under the great dome,…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 March 1881 · page 2
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Melbourne International Exhibition was closed to-day. The supplementary list awards that Mr. T. Richards' (Government Printer)…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 March 1881 · page 2
TO-DAY the first annual Flower, Fruit, and Vegetable Show, under the auspices of the Northern Agricultural Association, is to take place at Singleton. We have…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 March 1881 · page 2
YESTERDAY the primary venture of the Northern Agricultural Association to bring about a Flower, Fruit, and Vegetable Show was essayed, and proved, by the general…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 April 1881 · page 2
THE following correspondence has been handed to us by Mr. W. Briggs, who has been working zealously in this matter:— Elgin-street, West Maitland,…
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