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Shows & fairs, 1866

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Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1866 · page 7

[?]ding exhibitors are informed that it is proposed to distribute the objects to be displayed into the following divisions:— Mineeral products Manufactures and useful arts…

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Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866. (From a Supplement to the Government Gazette of January 5.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1866 · page 7

HIS EXCELLENCY the Governor is pleased to direct the publication of the following communication from his Honor Sir Redmond Barry, Knight, President of the Royal Commission for the Intercolonial Exhibition to be held at…

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The Intercolonial Exhibition

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 January 1866 · page 24

IN the month of August 1866, there is to be a grand International Exhibition at Melbourne. Our Victorian neighbours possess, as every one knows, a good many things…

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Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866

Sydney Mail · Saturday 13 January 1866 · page 5

Intending exhibitors are informed that it is proposed to distribute the objects to be displayed into the following divisions:—Mineral products Manufactures and useful arts…

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Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866

Sydney Mail · Saturday 13 January 1866 · page 5

HIS ENCELLENCY the Governor is pleased to direct the publication of the following communication from his Honor Sir Redmond Barry, Knight, President of the Royal Commission for the Intercolonial Exhibition to be held at…

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Intercolonial Exhibition, Melbourne, August, 1866. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1866 · page 3

SIR,—Can any of your readers inform me what steps have been taken to have New South Wales products properly represented at the ensuing Exhibition to be held in Melbourne in August next? I have not yet heard of any…

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Fair and False

Sydney Punch · Friday 2 February 1866 · page 2

A beautifully embossed and tinted piece of cream-laid note paper, redolent with the perfumes emanating from the odorous establishment of Piesse and Lubin, and traced by the finest swan-quill with that Lady's Angular Writing, which recent advertisements inform us is…

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Horticultural Exhibition

Sydney Mail · Saturday 24 February 1866 · page 4

THE autumnal Floral Exhibition of the Horticultural Society of New South Wales was held, on Thursday, in the Lower Botanic Gardens. There was a very fair attendance of spectators, although not so numerous as on many former…

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Armidale. New England Pastoral and Agricultural Show. (From Our Correspondent.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 March 1866 · page 6

THE second annual exhibition under the auspices of this society took place on Tuesday, the 20th ultimo, in the Armidale Court-house, which was fitted up specially for the o[?]sion. Considering the age of the society, the show…

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Shoalhaven Estate Agricultural Society. (A bridged from the Kiama Independent, March 1)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1866 · page 4

THE third annual exhibition of this society came off at Broughton Creek on the 27th ultimo. The weather being all that could be desired, there was a great assembly of people from many parts of the Illawarra district, while the…

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New England Pastoral and Agricultural Show

Sydney Mail · Saturday 3 March 1866 · page 9

THE second annual exhibition under the auspices of this society took place on Tuesday, the 20th ultimo, in the Armidale Court-house, which was fitted up specially for the occasion. Considering the age of the society, the show…

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Paris Exhibition

Empire · Wednesday 14 March 1866 · page 8
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Yesterday, at noon, the first meeting of the Commission, appointed to make arrangemets for the Paris Exhibition, was held at the Colonial Secretary's office. The following members of the Commission were…

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Our Agricultural and Horticultural Show. (From the S. A. Register, March 5.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 March 1866 · page 6

IN every respect the Show which was held in the Exhibition Building, on the 1st instant, was a successful one. The weather was pleasant, the articles exhibiied of high quality, and the visitors unusually numerous. The…

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Paris Exhibition

Sydney Mail · Saturday 17 March 1866 · page 2

THE first meeting of the Commissioners appointed by the Government to devise and carry out the details necessary to facilitate the transmission to France of articles, the produce or manufacture of this colony, intended for exposition at the…

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The Goolburn Exhibition of Art and Industry. [?]

Empire · Friday 13 April 1866 · page 8

The first attempt to get up an exibition of works of art and industry ever made in the interiorof Australia is now taking place in Goulburn; and the result…

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The Exhibition at the Mechanics' Institute. (Abridged from the Golbourn Argus.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 April 1866 · page 3

THE Exhibition of Works of Art and Industry, the first thing of the kind, we believe, that has been held in the interior of New South Wales, was opened in the hall of the Mechanics Institute, yesterday. In the early part of list…

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The Carnival at Rome

Empire · Wednesday 18 April 1866 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The correspondent of the Times writing from Rome on the 14th instant, describes the cloring scenes of the Roman carnival. He says:- The festivitles of Count de Sartiges were followed on…

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The Annual Agricultural Show. (From the Bathurst Free Press, April 14.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 April 1866 · page 2

WE had no expectation that either the animals in the stock pens, or the products in the shed, on Wednesday, would in variety or in quality vie with the very successful show of last year, and we had therefore concluded the matter in our…

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