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Shows & fairs, 1868

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This Year's Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 July 1868 · page 2

OF Course, I mean the Roayl Academy Exhibition. Opening exhibitions of various kinds are as plentiful in May, in this part of the world as opening flowers; but the R. A. display, like Sol. Gill's wine, is…

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The N. S. Wales Commission for the Paris Universal Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 July 1868 · page 5

WE have been requested to publish the following correspondence, which passed between the New South Wales Commissioners for the Paris Exhibition, and various official personages:—…

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This Year's Exhibition

Sydney Mail · Saturday 18 July 1868 · page 12

OP course, I mean the Royal Academy Exhibition. Opening exhibition of various kinds are as plentiful in May, in the past of the world, as opening flowers; but the R. A. display, like Sol. Gi[?]l's wine, is…

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The N. S. Wales Commission for the Paris Universal Exhibition

Sydney Mail · Saturday 18 July 1868 · page 13

WE have been requested to publish the following correspondence, which passed between the New South Wales Commissioners for the Paris Exhibition, and various official personages:—…

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The Agricultural Society of New South Wales. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 July 1868 · page 2

SIR,—By way of inducing our squatters and farmers to support this Society and others of a like nature, I send you, as under, an extract from a letter I lately received from my brother, a farmeria the North of…

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English Love of Justice and Fair Play. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 July 1868 · page 6

Sir,—There is no delusion of the age which has more advocates than that there is a love of justice and fair play inherent in the English character. It has been so often, asserted that…

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales

Sydney Mail · Saturday 8 August 1868 · page 14

THE monthly meeting of the council of this society was held at the Rooms, 227, George-street, on Wednesday morning. The attendance was unusually good. Amongst the members precast were Messrs. Dight, Town, Ye[?]mans,…

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Mudgee Agricultural Society. (From the Western Post, August 7.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 August 1868 · page 2

THE seventh annual exhibition of this society took place on the society's ground, on Wednesday and Thursday last. So far as weather was concerned, nothing could have been more propitious; but the attendance on Wednesday fell off…

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Mudgee Agricultural Society

Sydney Mail · Saturday 15 August 1868 · page 15

THE seventh annual exhibition of this society took place on the Society's ground, on Wednesday and Thursday last. So far as weather was concerned, nothing could have been more propitious; but the attendance on Wednesday fell off…

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Whit-monday at the Horse Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 August 1868 · page 6

MY int'mate acquaintances in New South Wales will be amused at my presumption in venturing to write about horses; it will seem to them much as if "honest Jack Robertson " (I charitably suppose that…

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The Havre International Maritime Exhibition. (From the Ilustrated London News.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 August 1868 · page 3

THE Exhibition at Havre, opened on the first day of June, occupies an open space of twenty acres belonging to the Imperial Government, near the head of the harbour. It is a quadrangle enclosed by four brick…

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Fair Fighting

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 August 1868 · page 13

Fight fairly ! This is the first admonition we wish to enforce upon all the friends of religious equality. The cause demands it—the true success of that cause will render it imperatively…

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Shocking Exhibition at Weston. Super-mare

Empire · Saturday 22 August 1868 · page 5

On Saturday evening, this fashionable watering place in the Bristol Channel, was the scene of an exhibition which was sickening and disgusting in the extreme. It had been announced that a man, styling…

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Whit-monday at the Horse Show

Sydney Mail · Saturday 22 August 1868 · page 10

My intimate acquaintances in New South Wales will be amused at my presumption in venturing to write about horses; it will seem to them much as if "honest Jack Robertson" (I charitably suppose that…

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The Photographs of Sydney Sent to the Paris Exhibition. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 August 1868 · page 7

SIR,—I beg respectfully to enquire of the Commissioners of the New South Wales Department of the Paris Exhibition, their authority for selling the private property of individual contributors. I have heard many complaints on…

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Sale of Paris Exhibition Photographs. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 August 1868 · page 3

SIR,—" Enquirer," in Saturday's issue of your paper, questions the propriety of the sale of the photographs sent to the Pans Exhibition Commissioners, on the ground that they were the private property of the different…

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The Photographs Returned From the Paris Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 August 1868 · page 5

WITH reference to the above, the following is the circular in response to which the photographs of private residences and business premises were placed at the disposed of the Commissioners:—…

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The Singleton Agricultural Show

Empire · Monday 31 August 1868 · page 3

The Northern Agricultural Association held their first show on Thursday last, at Singleton. The weather had borne a very threatening appearance on the day previous, but Thursday was a day of unbroken…

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Agricultural Society of New [?] Wales

Sydney Mail · Saturday 5 September 1868 · page 14

THE monthly meeting of the above society was [?] Wednesday, at the Rooms, 227, George-stre[?]. M[?]presents—Mr. Sloper Cox (in the chair), Sir W. Mecar[?]. Messrs. J. Lackey, H. Reed, U. Dawson, A. Br[?]…

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 September 1868 · page 5

A SPECIAL meeting of the Council was held at their rooms George-street, yesterday morning, to receive the report of the exhibition committee on the prize schedule, especially that portion of it relating to wool, which, on account of the…

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