Our Impregnable Defences, and Their Fair Estimates. [From a Correspondent.]
Empire · Wednesday 8 August 1855 · page 5
Suppose the City of Sydney to be fortified as proposed by the Executive, say, done by magic, instanter, that the expense shall not exceed £200,000, for the erection of these Batteries, with the addition of £60,000 per…
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Empire · Monday 13 August 1855 · page 3
The Paris Exhibition, now about to open, has laboured under obstacles and dificulties which our London Exhibition had not to contend with. The world, which was then in peace, is now convulsed with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Paris Universal Exhibition. (From the Special Correspondent of the Illustrated News.) Paris, May 9
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 August 1855 · page 2
SINCE I last wrote to you, the unexpected postponement of the Exhibition has astonished all people connected with it. I was in the Palais de l'Industrie in the afternoon of the 27th…
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Empire · Friday 17 August 1855 · page 6
By our last advices, however, we received a confirmation of the announcement that the universal exhibition at the Palaco of Industry was inaugurated at a quarterpast one o'clock on Tuesday, by the Emperor and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Paris Universal Exhibition. (From the Special Correspondent of the Illustrated London News.)
Empire · Friday 17 August 1855 · page 5
Since I last wrote to you, the unexpected postponement of the opening of the Exhibition has astonished all people connected with it. I was in the Palais de l'Industrie in the afternoon of the 27th ultimo; and, although…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Paris Exhibition. Foreign Office, May 25
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 August 1855 · page 8
IT is hereby notified that the Earl of Clarendon has received, through her Majesty's ambassador at Paris, an assurance from the French Government that all British workmen desirous of visiting the Paris…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Barnum's Baby Show
The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 29 September 1855 · page 11
Notwithstanding Barnum's Life has been written, published, read, and execrated, he is still alive and full of humbug as ever. His latest clap-trap to draw at his Museum in New York, is the advertising of a Baby Show to he held therein,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 October 1855 · page 5
THE spring exhibition of the Australasian Botanic Society waa held yesterday in the Botanic Gardens. The weather was unfortunately very unpropitious, a cold boisterous wind, accompanied with rain,…
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Empire · Friday 5 October 1855 · page 5
THE Spring Exhibition of the above named Society was opened yesterday. Owing, to the unfavourable nature of the wether, which was showery, with a cold southerly wind blowing, the attendance of visitors was not so…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 October 1855 · page 2
At the time of the publication of the "Catalogue of the National and Industrial Products of New South Wales, exhibited in the Australian Museum by the Paris Exhibition Commissioners," we introduced it to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Paris Exhibition.—australian Contributions
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 October 1855 · page 4
THE following extract, from a letter recently received from Mr. William Macarthur, the indefatigable and zealous Commissioner to Paris for New South Wales, will be read with interest:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tasmanian Contribution to the Paris Exhibition. (Second Notice)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 October 1855 · page 5
WE come now to the consideration of articles of a different kind to those already noticed. Among the things relating to the products raised without cultivation, relating the weapons of the natives and models…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Horticultural Improvement Society of New South Wales.—first Exhibition
Empire · Friday 19 October 1855 · page 5
THE first Exhibition of this newly-formed Society took place yesterday afternoon, in the Botanic Gardens. It must be regarded as a particularly successful commencement. The collection of articles exhibited, as will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Paris Exhibition. Wollens and Worsteds
Empire · Friday 26 October 1855 · page 5
We extract the subjoined notice of the Woollen and Worsted fabrics in the Grande Exposition, from the Leader,of July 14. Some particulars in reference to Wools will he found. especially, interesting., We are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Show of Roses
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 November 1855 · page 5
THE Committee of the Australasian Botanic Society at the suggestion of some of its members, expressed through the columns of this journal, resolved lsst year to have a special exhibition for roses. It was thought that as this "Queen of all the flowers" was…
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Empire · Wednesday 14 November 1855 · page 4
The Horticultural Improvement Society held their first show of Roses yesterday in the Botanic Gardens. The attendance of visitors was pretty numerous, the weather being particularly line; in addition to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Poultry Show. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 November 1855 · page 5
SIR,—I have often been surprised to find that the good citizens of this [?] and important city, are so very unmindful of the advantages to be derived from a [?]try show. On looking over a late Tasmanian paper, I found that at "their next" pouitry show…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Poultry Show. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 November 1855 · page 2
SIR,—Two letters which have lately appeared in you[?] paper show that the public attention is at last being called to what many consider a very great dedsideratum—a Poultry Show. "Gallus Domeaticus" hope[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Paris Exhibition. New South Wales Products. [Extracts from a private letter from Mr. W. Macarthur.) PARIS, 12th August, 1855
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 November 1855 · page 2
WE are all in arrear with our official communications to Sydney, as we cannot get through the writing required from us here, and have no time to think about the rest. I must confine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Paris Exhibition. (New South Wales Division.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 November 1855 · page 4
WE [?] that we were in error, in imputing to the Paris authorities the blunder respecting the supposed identity of New South Wales, with South Australia. It is due to our accomplished…
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