Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Shows & fairs, all years

Sydney · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1861

127 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 7

Sydney Poultry Association. Exhibition at the Hall of Temperance

Empire · Wednesday 7 August 1861 · page 4

THE hope that the day of the annual exhibition of Poultry by this Association would, in point of weather, form a brilliant exception to the usual insuspicious coincidence, of clouds and rain with the display of…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Poultry Show

Sydney Mail · Saturday 10 August 1861 · page 5

THE annual exhibition of the Sydney Poultry Association commenced on Tuesday, at the Temperance Hall. The progressive improvement which it observable in these yearly displays proves the extending interest…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Exhibition of Cotton. (From the Maitland Ensign.)

Empire · Monday 19 August 1861 · page 5

Thursday being the day appointed for the Exhibition of cotton in connection with the Hunter River Agricultaral and Horticultural Association, some five or six gentlemen, including Messrs. Vindin, M. Peck, and…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Great Exhibition of 1862

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 August 1861 · page 4

THE New South Wales Commissioners are rapidly increasing their stock of exhibits for the forthcoming international exhibition Stimulated, no doubt, by the activity of their neighbours in the sister colonies, our own colonists…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

International Exhibition of 1862

Empire · Wednesday 21 August 1861 · page 2

The Commissioners for the New South Wales branch of the International Exhibition of 1862, have been in communication with persons in all parts of the territory, and have been promised a large supply of specimens of the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Cotton Exhibition. (From Tuesday's Maitland Mercury.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 August 1861 · page 5

THE following memoranda accompanied the sampled of cotton forwarded to the exhibition of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association, on Thursday last, by Mr. J. R. Nowland and Mr. E. A…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The International Exhibition Building. (From the Building News, June 15)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 August 1861 · page 2

IT is scarcely more than two months since the vast plot was an undisturbed green field, with buildings of unusual extent and magnificence rapidly rising in even direction around it. There was nothing, except…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Cotton Exhibition

Sydney Mail · Saturday 24 August 1861 · page 3

THE following memoranda accompanied the samples of cotton forwarded to the exhibition of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association, on Thursday last, by Mr. J. R. Nowland and Mr. E. A…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Great Exhibition of 1862

Sydney Mail · Saturday 24 August 1861 · page 3

THE New South Wales Commissioners are rapidly increasing their stock of exhibits for the forthcoming international exhibition. Stimulated, no doubt, by the activity of their neighbours in the sister colonies, our own colonists…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Great Exhibition of 1862

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 24 August 1861 · page 3

New South Wales will be nobly represented at the forthcoming World's Fair. Contributions from all quarters are flowing in fast upon the Commissioners, who intend chartering the Great Eastern, no other known…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Colonies: Agricultural Industry at the International Exhibition. From ths Mark Lane Express, June 24.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 August 1861 · page 3

THE Royal Agricultural Society of England, by its determination to hold its annual show next year in London, becomes in a measure again linked with the International Exhibition, to which its show will form…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Alpacas for the Great Exhibition

Empire · Friday 30 August 1861 · page 5

YESTERDAY, shortly after one o'clock a special train, with their Excellencies Sir John and Lady Young, and suite, Mr. Cowper, Mr. Robertson, Mr. Arnold, Mr. Hargrave, Mr. Clark Irving, Dr. Woolley, Mr. and Mrs…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Prince Consort on the Forthcoming International Exhibition

Empire · Friday 30 August 1861 · page 3

ON the 5th June, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort presided at the meeting of the Society of Arts in the Hall, John-street, Adelphi. The paper,…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Colonies: Agricultural Industry at the International Exhibition

Sydney Mail · Saturday 31 August 1861 · page 6

THE Royal Agricultural Society of England, by its determination to hold its annual show next year in London, becomes in a measure again linked with the International Exhibition, to which its show will form…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

The Frince Consort on the Forthcoming International Exhibition. (From the Times, June 7.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 August 1861 · page 6

YESTERDAY evening, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort presided at the meeting of the Society of Arts in the Hall, John street Adelphi. The paper, which was read by Mr. William Hawes, was "On…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

The Exhibition of 1802

Empire · Saturday 21 September 1861 · page 3

Our commissioners are rapidly progressing in the completion of their arrangements for scouring the proper representation of New South Wales at the London Exhibition next year. One of not the least interesting…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

International Exhibition of 1802. (From the Times)

Empire · Tuesday 1 October 1861 · page 2

EVERYTHING connected with the great Exhibition of next year is to be on a huge and astounding scale of magnitude. It is about a month since we gave a list of the enormous…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Recognition of Music at the Exhibition of 1862. (From the Saturday Review, August 3.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 October 1861 · page 8

ENGLAND, if not absolutely the most musical nation in the world, has of late years made an advance in the cultivation and appreciation of the art quite unparalleled in musical history. A glance at the…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

The Exhibition

Empire · Thursday 17 October 1861 · page 8

Of the general charecter of the exhibits, and the extent to which they represent the actual resoures and natural wealth of the colony, it is probable that different opinions will be entertained. Many who will pay the…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Opening of the New South Wales Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 October 1861 · page 4

THE Exhibition of articles—the produce or manufacture of New South Wales—intended for transmission to England for the International Exhibition to be held in London next year, was opened to the public…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →