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166 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 9
A MEETING of the council was held on Wednesday—Sir W. Macarthur in the chair. Present—Messrs. A. Dight, J. K. Cleave. Howard Reed, T. Dawson, J. F. Downes, A. Bruce, R. U. Roberts, and James Pye. Minutes of late meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The traditional show-off of the "Bocuf Gras," in honour of the animals that have taken the highest prizes at the Poissy Cattle Show, took place on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, with all the usual honours. The "fat oxen"…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR,—As serious apprehensions were entertained, and pretty generally expressed, about the period of the nomination of Commissioners for the late Paris Exhibition, that the expenditure involved by our proper representation at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The second day's show triumphantly completed the uccess of the show of 1869. The number of persons n the ground was very large, not fewer than five housand persons being computed by the Mercury,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE success of the Show of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association was amply confirmed by the result of the second day's exhibition. The weather was exceedingly. favourable, for although the morning was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday and Thursday last the above society held their annual show on the ground usually occupied by them, on Nicholson's Racecourse, West Maitland. The Exhibition must be pronounced to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN modern civilisation one of its most encouraging and most remarkable qualities is, beyond all doubt, that entire absence of anything like a stationary character which appears to be everywhere so strongly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN modem civilisation one of its most encouraging and most remarkable qualities is, beyond all doubt, that entire absence of anything like a stationary character which appears to be everywhere so strongly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE success of the Show of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural .Association was amply confirmed by the result of the cooped day's exhibition. The weather was exceedingly favourable, for although the morning was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT is said of a certain Eastern potentate that, having amassed great wealth, he invited the world in the following terms:—"Come, measure my walls; witness my magnitude; behold the treasures I have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Enough could be seen during a ramble in Alfred park yesterday afternoon to obtain a very fair idea of the magnitude of the Metropolitan Exhibition, which will be formally opon to the public by his Excellency…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN spite of weather the most inauspicious that could be conceived for such an event, the Agricultural Society's First Metropolitan Exhibition was opened by his Excellency the Governor at 12.30 yesterday. His entry was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A CONSIDERABLE number of the members and friends of the agricultural Society of New South Wales dined together yesterday evening, in the Hotel do France. The large banqueting hall was well filled. The decorations…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday broke inauspiciously with rain, and the park did not look as lively as had been anticipated. Yet the Judges, who had breakfasted together at half-past 7, proceeded to their work with alacrity;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The more favourable state of the weather yesterday, as compared with Tuesday â although there were some threatenings of rai[?]âdrew to the grounds of the Exhibition a vast concourse of people, and the scene…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Clerk of the Weather made amonds yesterday for his ungracious behaviour on the previous day. With the exception of a very slight occasional drizzle, the weather was fine. It was cloudy, but that only helped to koop the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Exhibition yesterday (Thursday), was attended by quite as many paying visitors as on the preceding day, though luckily there was wanting the juvenil[?] element which had added so much to the confusion. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The attendance on the ground at the opening of the Exhibition yesterday morning was remarkably good, notwithstanding the threatening appearance of the weather, and the heavy rainfall of the previous night,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Never before has there been seen in Sydney anything to compare with the splendid collection of colonial products and manufactures that thas been on view in the Prince Alfred Park, since Tuesday last; and the success…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EXHIBITIONS like that now being held in Alfred Park are extremely useful. It is impossible to calculate the advantages that may be derived from them, when properly…
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