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Shows & fairs, 1865

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Industrial. Exhibition

Empire · Tuesday 3 January 1865 · page 3

GREAT preparation are making at the Agricultural Hall, Islington for a North London Working Classes Industries Exhibition, to be opened at that establishment on Monday the 17th instant, by Eirl Russell who has undertaken to…

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The New Zealand Exhibition of 1865

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1865 · page 5

A FEW months since we gave publicity to the invitations that had been forwarded, through Messrs. Gilchrist, Watt and Co., to thepioduters and manufacturers of this colony, to contribute samples to the…

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Dublin Exhibition

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 January 1865 · page 12

Our contemporary the Herald has done good service in commending to the attention arid interest of our fellow-colonists the approaching International Exhibition in…

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Dublin International Exhibition of 1865

Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 January 1865 · page 2

THE following letter was lately received from Dublin by the Hon. J. H. Plunkett, who has since handed it to the Herald for publication:— Dublin, 25th September, 1864…

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The New Zealand Exhibition of 1865

Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 January 1865 · page 2

A FEW months since we save publicity to the invitations that had been forwarded, through Messrs. Gilchrist, Watt, and Co., to the producers and manufacturers of this colony, to contribute samples to the…

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The Merino Wool Show in Victoria. (From the Melbourne Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1865 · page 3

THE intercolonial exhibition of merino wool was opened on Thursday, in the large upper room of Messrs. Cuningham and Macredie, and was very largely attended by the squatters, merchants, woolbrokers, and others interested in…

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Exhibition at Dublin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1865 · page 6

WE have much pleasure in urging upon our readers the claims of the International Exhibition to take place in Dublin, in the month of May, 1865. This Exhibition undpr the…

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Exhibition of Objects of Religious Art at Mechlin

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 January 1865 · page 43

At the old habitation of the Liederkerke, in the archiepiscopal city of Mechlin, is now collected together one of the most extraordinary assemblages of art, as applied to the…

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The Merino Wool Show in Victoria

Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 January 1865 · page 6

THE intercolonial exhibition of merino wool was opened on Thursday, in the large upper room of Messrs. Cuningham and Macredie, and was very largely attended by the squatters, merchants, woolbrokers, and others interested in…

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The Dublin International Exhibition

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 1 February 1865 · page 65

We have much pleasure in announcing that the Government have at last appointed a board to aid with information intending exhibitors at the forth coming Dublin International Exhibition of 1865…

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London Limnings. the Cattle Show. (Written expressly for the Sydney Morniing Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 February 1865 · page 2

1864, in a meteorological point of view, has been on Annus mirabilis in England. Week followed week of sunlight in unclouded lapse, parching what would otherwise have been bush pasture into the drynes[?],…

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The Pope and the Dublin International Exhibition, 1865

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 22 February 1865 · page 118

The Government of His Holiness the Pope, whose favour and encouragement of the forthcoming exhibition we have had already occasion to notice, being determined to give it the most…

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London Limnings. the Cattle Show

Sydney Mail · Saturday 25 February 1865 · page 7

1864, in a meteorological point of view, has been an Annus mirabilis in England. Week followed week of sunlight in unclouded lapse, parching what would otherwise have been bush pasture into the dryness,…

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Art-workmanship Exhibition

Empire · Monday 27 February 1865 · page 2

The Society of Arts having of offered to distribute prizes for art-workmanship on Saturday, there was a private view of articles which had been sent in for competition. The council of the society, seeing that…

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The Late Intercolonial Show of Wool. To the Editor of the Argus

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 February 1865 · page 8

SIR,—In the commercial columns of a receat issue of your journal, there appeared a report of the sale of the wool exhibited at the late intercolonial show, wherein was stated that "Mr. Kermode's wool fetched a price that far exceeds…

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Demolition of the Great Exhibition Building of 1862. (From the London Evening Sun, December 13.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 March 1865 · page 5

ALTHOUGH yesterday morning exhibited emphatically that sort of atmospheric complexion which so fully justifies Lord Brougham in leaving "merry England" in November and spending his winter on the shores of…

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Demolition of the Great Exhibition Building

Empire · Wednesday 8 March 1865 · page 3

Although yesterday morning exhibited emphatically that sort of atmospheric complexion which s[?] fully justifies Lord Brougham in leaving, "merry England", in November…

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Stoney Horticultural Society's Flower Show. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 March 1865 · page 5

SIR,—With your permission I would beg to correct your admirable report of the Horticultural Society's Exhibition. The prize awarded for garden tiles should have been mentioned as being adjudged to "Mr…

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The Horticultural Society's Show

Illustrated Sydney News · Thursday 16 March 1865 · page 3

THE annual autumn exhibition of the Sydney Horticultural Society took place in the Outer Botanic Gardens on Wednesday last. The show was, perhaps, one of the best ever held under the auspices of the Society, and in some classes the exhibits…

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The Agricultural Society's Show. (From Saturday's Bathurst Free Press.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 March 1865 · page 3

LAST Wednesday, the Bathurst Agricultural, Pastoral and Horticultuial Association held their annual show on their grounds at Raglan, about four miles from town, and contiguous to the main Sydney road. Tho day was remarkably…

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