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Shows & fairs, 1862

109 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 6

The Legislative Council Exhibition. No. 2. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Friday 3 October 1862 · page 2

SIR,—Next in debate comes the Hon[?] Charles Kem[?] of whom we have many remin[?] [?] and some little anecdote[?] Weighty in figure and industr[?]s in [?]t, ba[?]ed above and below, he has r[?] up the l[?]dder…

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Legislative Council Exhibition. No. [?]. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Monday 6 October 1862 · page 5

SIR.—The Honorable E. [?]D[?]as Thomson—one of our great statesmen of past days, pensioned by the bounty of the country—We would have thought, would have dealt with this question on a comprehensive surrey of…

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Rotes on the International Exhibition. [From the Times, July 24.) Foreign and Colonyal Mineral Products, Class I.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 October 1862 · page 3

SHAR[?] strictures have appeared in these,columns on some of the classes of the Zollverein Department, and we have heard well-informed Germans fully admit their justice. It now affords us pleasure to apply…

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The International Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 October 1862 · page 4

OF late there has arisen about once in every week an argumentation as to whether that particular time was not the turning-point of what is called the fortune of the International Exhibition. Everyone has long ago admitted that the Exhibition of 1862…

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The Legislative Council Exhibition. No.iv. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Monday 13 October 1862 · page 8

SIR,—One would [?] thought that under the [?]ship of the great O'Connell, who protested against "hirelings of the State," Mr. P[?]kelt, like all true Irish Roman Catholics, would have had an instinctive honor of…

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The International Exhibition

Sydney Mail · Saturday 18 October 1862 · page 3

OF late there has arisen about once in every week an argumentation as to whether that particular time was not the turning-point of what is called the fortune of the International E[?]ion. Every one has long ago admitted that the Exh[?] of 1862…

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Notes on the International Exhibition. (From the European Times, August 26) a Chinese Trophy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 October 1862 · page 8

A VERY curious sample of the French " loot " of the Summer Palace is being exhibited by Mr. Spielman in his Bureau do Change, Central Avenue. It is a magnificent gold repeater, which is guaranteed to…

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Wines at the International Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 October 1862 · page 8

THE following is an abridgement of an an article devoted to the Wines at the International Exhibition, which appeared in a supplement to the Daily News, published on the 9th of August last. We invite the…

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The Horticul[?]ural Society's Floral Exhibition

Empire · Friday 31 October 1862 · page 8

THE [?]ing exhibition of the Horticultural Society was held in the [?]rance Hall, yesterday, and opened at one o'clock Every credit is due to the managing committee of ten, and to the secretary, Mr. G[?]lding, for…

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Exhibition of Horticultural Society of Sydney, New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 October 1862 · page 8

ALMOST naturally associated in the minds of the public of this city with the idea of a Horticultural Exhibition or Flower-show, are the accompaniments of tents pitched on the lawn of our beautiful Botanic Gardens,…

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Exhibition of Horticultural Society of Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 November 1862 · page 6

RESUMING the subject of our notice of yesterday, we may start with the roses, of which, as might have been expected at this season, there was a fine display, exciting more competition than with any other class of plants. The first…

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Exhibition of Horticultural Society of Sydney. New South Waxes

Sydney Mail · Saturday 1 November 1862 · page 8

SINCE the demise of the "Horticultural and Botanical Society" tome time ago a great blank was felt to exist by a large number of persons either practically engaged in horticulture, or otherwise…

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Flower Show

Empire · Monday 3 November 1862 · page 5

THE first exhibition of tbe Horticultural Society of Sydney was commensed on Thursday last, in the Temperance Hall, Pi[?]street, and was continued [?] Friday evening, when it was closed with the full impression on…

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Cotton and Its Prostpects, As Judged by the Exhibition of 1862. (From the London Daily News, July 26th.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 November 1862 · page 3

The cotton manufacture of these countries is so vast, and the number of those to whom it affords, at least a subsistence, is so great that an interrupted, or even a limited supply of…

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The Colonial Woods in the International Exhibition. (From the Mark Lane Exprese, August 11.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 November 1862 · page 3

ONE of the most extensive and interesting of the numerous collections now on view in the International Exhibition is certainly that of the woods, sent from so many countries and climates and from far…

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The Great Exhibition

Empire · Saturday 15 November 1862 · page 8

The attendance at the Exhibition is falling off, and it is now certain that it will not be so successful, financially, as the exhibition of 1851, Itris believed, nevertheless, that the guaran…

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Miss Ironside and Her Famous Painting at the Great Exhibition. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Wednesday 19 November 1862 · page 5

SIR,—From letters received two months since, from my brother and the Rev. P. Fitzgerald, of the Tumut (both now in England), I was informed that Miss Ironside, our distinguished Australian artist's great painting of the…

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Lost Articles in the Exhibition

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 November 1862 · page 8

The collection of lost articles is already beginning to assume considerable proportions, and the magazine at the police-office, in the strange variety of its contents, most resembles…

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The Australian Colonies in the International Exhibition. (From the North British Agriculturist.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 November 1862 · page 2

THE Australian colonies have contributed extensive and most valuable collections of their mineral, vegetable, and animal products to the Exhibition. There are numerous, and in some instances large, specimens…

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New South Wales and Queensland International Exhibition. (Australian Mail, September 15th, 1862.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 December 1862 · page 8

IN the course of our survey of the Australian products at the International Exhibition, we have now to treat of the display made by the settlements of the eastern side of the continent, New South Wales and…

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