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Shows & fairs, 1867

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Opening of the French Exhibition. Paris, March 28Th, 1867

Sydney Mail · Saturday 15 June 1867 · page 9

The chaos of the Champ de Mars, out of which order is being developed with such feverish activity, and whole transformations from day to day afford already a spectacle far from uninteresting, cannot, by any possibility, cease to…

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The Great Annual Cumberland Agricultoorallooral Show. Seconday, Satday, Twent-six. (no—FIVE)

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 15 June 1867 · page 13

LUN'SHON s'perb an' ploguh no, mean plowmatch s'perb too. Herral' 'r'porter jolgoolfler, ses lun'shon most importan featur day; I like Heralporter. He's soaf'ble—Plough (that's righ) P-l-o-u-g-h match cap'tal fun. Firsprize Jonjones came on…

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Opening of the Paris Exhibition. Paris, Monday evening

Empire · Monday 17 June 1867 · page 2

We have had the fine day which I ventured to predict. From morning to night the sky was almost cloudless. There was, however, a sharp north wind, with a strong March rather…

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The French Exhibition. [From Our Correspondent.] Paris, April 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 June 1867 · page 3

ONE of the effects of the untoward weather which is plaguing our hemisphere so persistently has been the total destruction of the splendid awning of green velvet, studded with golden bees, which constituted the roof of the grand…

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The French Exhibition. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Paris, April 25Th, 1867

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 June 1867 · page 3

DESPITE the continued incompleteness of the great enterprise which has drawn the eyes of the world upon the new enclosure of the new Champ do Mars, it is already abundantly evident that the splendour of the International…

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Sheep Fair

Sydney Mail · Saturday 22 June 1867 · page 4

ANNUAL Fair of the New York State Sheep Breeders' and Wool Growers' Association. To have been held at Auburn in May. From the subjoined regulation and classification of the sheep that were to have been exhibited at the last show of the New…

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The French Exhibition. Paris, April 11

Sydney Mail · Saturday 22 June 1867 · page 7

ALL parties connected with the Exhibition are working at the various arrangements with unflagging spirit, through [?]early the entire circle of the twenty-four hours of the European day ; and the physiognokly of the vast galleries…

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The Paris Exhibition. Paris, April 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 July 1867 · page 5

The Great Exposition now promises to be a very great success. The most gratifying advancement is being made in arranging ard classifying the immense number of articles of all classes and descriptions to be exhibited…

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English Hebes at the Paris Exhibition

Empire · Tuesday 2 July 1867 · page 2

The star of Spiers and Pond is evidently in the ascendant. It is obvious that this cosmopolitan firm has a mission. They are the refreshment-room reformers of the age. By their "[?] potent…

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The Paris Exhibition

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 6 July 1867 · page 4

The Imperial Commission has just insured the Palace of the Exhibition for the sum of 7,500,000f. in the Intetnational Mutual Assurance Society. The lighting of the building by gas having proved successful, the Palace will…

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The Paris Exhibition

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 6 July 1867 · page 6

The Special Correspondent of the Argus at the Paris Exhibition, writes:- The Countess of Dudley's jewels—of fabnlous worth-attract a perpetual crowd; and…

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The Machinery in the French Exhibition

Empire · Saturday 6 July 1867 · page 3

The show of machinery in motion is always very popular, and it would be hard to say whether most crowds are attracted to the Picture Galleries of the present Exhibition or to the Machine Gallery. The…

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The Paris Exhibition. Paris, April 10

Sydney Mail · Saturday 6 July 1867 · page 6

The Great Exposition now promises to ba a very great success. The most gratifying advancement is being made in arranging and classifying the immense number of articles of all classes and descriptions to be exhibited…

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The Pahis Exhibition. To the Editor of the Herala

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 July 1867 · page 3

SIR,—Having just returned from a visit to the Great World's Fair now being held at Paris, I thought a few notes I made there upon the contributions of Australia to it might not he unacceptable, unless they have been…

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The New South Wales Court in the Paris Exhibition Palace. Commissioners' Officers. Colonial Secretary's Department, Sydney, 13th July, 1867

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 July 1867 · page 5

GENTLIMEN,—By the desire of the above named Commission, I have the honor to request you to give space in your columns, to the enclosed official details received by the yesterday's mail from England and France, in reference to…

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New South Wales at the Paris Exhibition

Empire · Tuesday 16 July 1867 · page 3
Also in Illustrated Sydney News

The secretary to the New South Wales Exhibition has forwarded to our daily contemporary—though why to that journal only is best known to himself and his commissioners—certain correspondence on the subject…

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The French Exhibition, [From Our Paris Correspondent.] Paris, May 3Rd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 July 1867 · page 3

IF, turning away from the multitudinous attractions of the Park, and the yet more numerous temptations of the inner galleries, we set ourselves to the work of making acquaintance with a single group of the unrivalled show so rapidly…

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The French Exhibition. [From Our Paris Correspondent.] Paris, May 9Th

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 July 1867 · page 3

THE anticipation of a gathering of crowned heads in which as one of the splendid concomitants of the present unrivalled Exhibition, the Parisians have been indulging for [?] many moths past, seems to be rapidly approaching…

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The French Exhibition. [From Our Paris Correspondent.] Paris, May 18Th

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 July 1867 · page 6

THE Prince of Wales is making good use of his stay in Paris, visiting the Exhibition every day, and making acquaintance with its various wonders, as also with the "creature comforts" so largely provided by the long line…

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