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421 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 22
IT is extremely difficult, at the present time, to write much about the aspect of the interior of the Exhibition without running the risk of making somewhat stale the beautiful objects which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. PUNCH hereby offers a prize of Fifty Pounds for the worst ode on the Exhibition of 1870. Contributions from candidates to be sent to "Punch's" Refreshment Pavilion, Alfred Park. The Exhibition Judges have not yet consented to act. The Prize Ode will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE trial of agricultural implements for exhibition, commenced yesterday, at Victoria Park, near the University. At an early hour, yesterday morning, Thompson's "Road Steamer" started from Alfred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Your letter of the 20th instant came duly to hand, and I have great pleasure in communicating to you what little I know about the Planter's Friend and its conversion into sugar. But I must say, you make…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →"I AM HERE !" This is not an original remark. It is, in fact, a quotation from a rubbishing novel called the "Duke's Motto," which my eldest daughter Angelina Jane Jones, bought last week from a travelling pedlar, who visited our station on the Bogan. Of course I took…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →1. Be in time ! N.B.--As the doors of the PUNCH office will, in consequence of the expected rush for copies, be opened at 7 a.m. and not closed until all are served ; intending purchasers can therefore suit, their own convenience, provided they are " in time."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE change in the weather on Friday evening was sufficient to create tho most gloomy apprehensions as to the probability of it being wet on Tuesday next, and the sloppy state of the park on Saturday gave assurance…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE grand fete to which everybody has been looking forward for many months with anxiety, and which everybody intends, if they can, to take part in, commences to-day. The committee of the Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRIGHT and suspicious weather ushered in this long anticipated day. It would really seem as if the elements bad been teasing the thousands who have, during the past five or six days, speculated [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YESTERDAY bright and auspicious weather ushered in this long anticipated ovent. It would really seem as if the elements had been teasing the thousands who have, during the past five or six days, speculated so…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This being the first "shilling day," an immense multitude thronged the park. Certainly the delightful weather which succeeded a stormy and unsettled night afforded the highest reason for congratulation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE opening of the Intercolonial Exhibition yesterday was an occasion of general rejoicing. A public holiday was proclaimed, and a numerous and brilliant company assembled at noon to take part in the ceremony intended to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THIS being the first " shilling day," an immense multitude thronged the park. Certainly the delightful weather which succeeded a stormy and unsettled night afforded the highest reason for congratulation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PRINCE Alfred Park yesterday furnished one of the grandest sights over witnessed South of the Equator. The arrangement of the exhibits was, of course, unaltered, but the attendance was very much larger than on the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FORTUNATE indeed were the holiday folks of yesterday, in receiving each fine weather for their visit to the Exhibition. To-day, from its commencement, has been aa unpleasant as yesterday was delightful,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE annual dinner of the members of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales took place last evening, at Courvoisier's Hotel de France. The room was tastefully decorated and brilliantly lighted. The chair at the upper…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE charge for admittance to the Exhibition yesterday was half-a-crown, and the weather was gloomy and threatening after the rain which fell in the early part of the morning. Under these circumstance the attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The sunshine this morning has again given Alfred Park something like the appearance it presented on the first "shilling day." From a very early hour crowds continued to past through the turnstiles, the…
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