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Shows & fairs, 1854

73 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 4

Paris Exhibition. (From Yesterday's Government Gazette.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1854 · page 8

HIS Excellency the Governor General has appointed a commission, consisting of the undermentioned gentlemen, to devise and carry out the details [?]sary to facilitate the transmission to France of…

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The Dublin Exhibition. (From the Times, November 3.)

Empire · Wednesday 8 February 1854 · page 2

The Dublin Exhibition has closed after six months of uninterrupted success. Undertakings have so seldom prospered and the ends of designs have so rarely been reached in Ireland, that the…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, February 8, 1854. the Paris Exhibition Commissioners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1854 · page 4

This flourishing colony cut so poor a figure at the Great Exhibition in London, that our authorities have done well to provide against a similar humiliation at the approaching…

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The Empire. Monday, February 13, 1854 the Paris Universal Exhibition

Empire · Monday 13 February 1854 · page 4

THE organisation of a Commission for the purpose of enabling this territory and people to be represented in the exhibition of the world's industry about to be held…

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Royal Agricultural Society. (From the Mark Lane Express, October 17.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 February 1854 · page 3

THERE is a natural and pardonable curiosity in the minds of most of us to know what neighbours may think of ourselves and our proceedings. The less habituated, too, these may be to our customs and our…

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The Autumn Exhibition of the Horticultural Society

Empire · Friday 24 February 1854 · page 2

This, the least attractive of the exhibitions of the year, took place yesterday, at the Botanic Gardens. There was not a very large attendance, although the beauty of the day and the…

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Kiama Agricultural Society

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 25 February 1854 · page 5

The annual meetings of this society were held on the 14th, and the 16th instants. The first meeting was for the ploughing match, which took place, in a field, the property of Mr. George Woods, Jamberoe. Nine competitors entered the lists, and the work was…

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Domestic Intelligence. the Autumn Exhibition of the Horticultural Society

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 February 1854 · page 9

This, the least attractive of the exhibitions of the year, took place on Thursday, at the Botanic Gardens. There was not a very large attendance, although the beauty of the day and the fine fresh…

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The Paris Exhibition Commissioners and the People's Advocate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 March 1854 · page 4

THERE is a paper published in Sydney called the People's Advocate, with which we do not wish to interfere unnecessarily, but when our contemporary suffers himself to be led into acts…

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Mr. Norrie's Exhibition. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 May 1854 · page 5

SIR,—I am not personally acquainted svith Mr. Norrie, and that my veracity on the point may not be doubted, which an anonymous signature could not fairly prevent, I shall give you my name privately…

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Council Paper. Universal Exhibition at Paris, in May, 1855

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 June 1854 · page 5

(Communication from Commissioners for New South Wales.) Ordered by the Council to be printed, 13th June, 1854. CHARLES A. FITZ ROY, Governor-General:…

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Coolie Immigration -- the Volunteer Corps -- and Shew Nuggets for the Paris Exhibition. To the Editor of the People's Advocate

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 1 July 1854 · page 2

SIR, -- I think you have somewhat misapprehended both my meaning and object in your remarks in your last number, on some previous observations of mine on Coolie Immigration. In holding up the Squatters, as I did, to commendation, in one particular at…

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The Paris Exhibition. (From the Argus, June 30.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 July 1854 · page 3

IT is well Known, that the important duty of superintending the collection of articles of colonial produce to be forwarded to the Exhibition at Paris has devolved upon a committee of gentlemen, who are now…

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Our Contributions to the Paris Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 July 1854 · page 5

As we stated in a former notice, the Paris Exhibition Commissioners have received a collection of native woods, of a very curious and beautiful description. We saw on Tuesday a block of the New South Wales…

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The Great Exhibition in Paris. Board of Trade, Department of Science and Art, Marlborough-house, Pall-mall, April 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 July 1854 · page 5

THE Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of the General Regulations for the Management…

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The Great Exhibition in Paris. (From the Times, April 28th.)

Empire · Friday 28 July 1854 · page 3

Board of Trade, Department of Science and Art, Marlborough-house, Pall-mall, April 17. The Right Honorable the Lords of the Committe of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations…

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Minerals for the Paris Exhibition. (To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 July 1854 · page 2

SIR,—The Commissioners for the Paris Exhibition, by public advertisement requesting contributions of specimens, have placed collections of minerals under one head in Class A. to be rewarded by a medal…

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Paris Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 August 1854 · page 4

IN addition to our last notice upon this subject, we have the pleasure of submitting the following particulars. Among those who have kindly signified their intention of contributing to the exihibition is Mr…

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The Universal Exhibition at Paris in 1855. (From the Daily News, April 22)

Empire · Friday 18 August 1854 · page 6

[?] III, seems determined not to allow the war into which Russia has dragged France and England to check his efforts to promote the developtment of industry and [?] throughout the…

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Educational Exhibition. (From the Express, June 3.)

Empire · Monday 21 August 1854 · page 8

The progress made with this exhibition, which originated with, and is being carried out by, the Society of Arts, is highly sntisfactory. The space applied for bt oxhibitors far exceeds that at the…

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