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Sydney · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1853

27 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2

Light Ventilated Prize Exhibition Hats. Class 20. Ex Anglesey

Empire · Saturday 1 January 1853 · page 3

B. MOUNTCASTLE, in wishing his friends a HAPPY NEW YEAR, has much pleasure in informing them that he has just landed a few cases of the above French and Merino Hats…

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Illawarra. Kiama Agricultural Show

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 5 March 1853 · page 5

This annual exhibition, or Show Fair, as it is popularly termed came off on the 23rd ult, with more that usual spirit and eclat, the working bees in the human hive were roused in self defence, into energetic action, in consequence of the intention manifested…

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To Our Fair Correspondents

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 16 April 1853 · page 2

Write, ladies, write—there's nothing like begl[?]ing it— Writing of "[?]o so" is better far than sinning it;…

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How to Show Love for a Wife

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 June 1853 · page 5

Show love for your wife, and your admiration of her, not in picking up her handkerchief or her glove, or in carrying her fan; not, though you have the…

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Industrial Exhibition. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Saturday 16 July 1853 · page 5

SIR—Having interested myself to a great extent in obtaining a cousiderable sum of money in Bourke Ward, towards getting up an Industrial Exhibition in Sydney—a very long period having…

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The Empire. Monday, July 25, 1853. the Mayor's Show

Empire · Monday 25 July 1853 · page 2

WEHE it not for the melancholy event which has come to pass with regard to the Melbourne deputation, we should feel disposed to laugh the recent foolery of the…

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The Dublin Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 August 1853 · page 2

DUBLIN, Thursday Evening.—The Great Exhibition was opened to-day by the Lord Lieutenant, and everything concerned with the interesting ceremony was conducted to the utmost satisfaction…

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The Dublin Exhibition. (From the Times Correspondent.) Dublin, May 12

Empire · Saturday 6 August 1853 · page 7

After a lapse of two years the triumphant experiment of 1851 in Hyde-park is about to be repented in the Irish metropolis, and Great Britain, having set an…

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Later English News. the Great Exhibition at Dublim

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 August 1853 · page 3

PRESENTING a front to Merrion-square of 300 feet, the main or centre feature of the elevation consists of a semicircular projection, which forms the Eastern termination of the…

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Later English News. the Great Exhibition at Dublin

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 August 1853 · page 4

Thursday, the 12th of May, was, from earliest dawn till its close, a day of promise. In the early morning, as we passed the streets of the line old capital, the blue sky was clear and unclouded, and…

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Industrial Exhibition at Paris. (From Friday's Government Gazette.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 September 1853 · page 2

COLONIAL Secretary's Office, Sydney, 1st September, 1853.—His Excellency the Governor-General is pleased to direct the publication, for general information, of the following…

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The Spring Show of 1853

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 September 1853 · page 3

The weather which has hitherto invariably favoured the exhibitions of this society was yesterday as beautiful as could be. The gardens, under the careful superintendence of Mr…

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Our Fair Share of Labour. (From the Buthurst Free Press, September 24.)

Empire · Friday 30 September 1853 · page 3

At no period of our past auriferous history have the labour difficulties of these districts pressed with so great a weight as at the present time, and owing to this circumstance the…

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New South Wales Horticultural Society.— Spring Exhibition

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 8 October 1853 · page 2

WE beg to present our readers with on illustration of the Sydney Botanic Gardens, taken during the Spring Exhibition of Fruits and Flowers, held on Tuesday, the 28th ultimo. We shall by some perhaps be thought extravagant in opening so early…

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Scientific. the Chemical Principles Isvolved in the Manufactures of the Great Exhibition, by Dr. Lyon Playfair

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 October 1853 · page 5

The industrial products of the different countries represented at the Exhibition showed, as a marked feature of ascending civilization, that civilized states differ from…

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Inauguration of the New York Exhibition. (From the Corrospondent of the London Illustrated News.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 October 1853 · page 3

NEW YORK, JULY 14.—At last the New York Exhibition is opened. "Better fate than never," says the old adage; in this case, however, later would have been better. Not half the articles…

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A Fair Understanding

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 5 November 1853 · page 1

In the columns of Punch there has lately appeared a series of honeymoon scenes between a romantic young bride and a quizzical good fellow of a bridegroom. Here is a bit from the…

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The Dublin Industrial Exhibition

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 5 November 1853 · page 7

The TIMES rarely gives us an opportunity of reading its leader with pleasure, or of quoting it with approval. Slow to recognise the Dublin Exhibition--doubting that anything good could come out of Nazareth--it has at length become a believer in Irish…

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SCIENTIFIC. (From Dr. Lyon Playfair's Lecture, the Results of the Great Exhibition.) Iron Smelting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 November 1853 · page 3

Let us select the smelting of iron as an example of the toachings of Chemistry. If practice, unaided by science, be sufficient for the prosecution of manufactures, this venerable art…

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The American Exhibition. the Irish Contingent

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 November 1853 · page 5

We find by the Irish American Journals that upwards of 200 articles of Irish manufacture have taken their place in the American Exhibition—not in any special…

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