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Shows & fairs, 1870

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

Evening News · Wednesday 14 September 1870 · page 2
Also in Empire

THE casual newspaper reader will possibly wonder, after the apparently exhaustive accounts of the contents of the Exhibition, which have been penned on all sides, how it is possible to find new subjects for fresh…

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Intercolonial Industrial Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 September 1870 · page 5

NOTWITHSTANDING that more than a fortnight has clapsed since the opening of the Exhibition, the daily attendance of visitors is still numbered by thousands. The railway and steamers still bring an extra number of passengers…

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Exhibition Pictures. Class 481—Professional Landscape. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 15 September 1870 · page 3

SIR,—Please allow me, through the medium of you valuable columns, to ask a question to which I am anxious to receive an answer. Supposing Victoria here after to hold an intercolonial exhibition, and to offer…

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The Exhibition

Sydney Punch · Saturday 17 September 1870 · page 1

WHEN I arrove here I squoze in as best I could. The sight was truly hexcrusiating. The first thing which obstructed my view was a building erected by a farmer, a…

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The Intercolonial Exhibition

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 September 1870 · page 9
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Since the removal of the horses and stock from Alfred Park, the great show has more distinctly assumed the characteristics of an intercolonial bazaar, in which the mental and…

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The Exhibition Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 September 1870 · page 15

SOOH a collection of cattle as those that graced the show ground of the Agricultural Association, call for something more than the notice we were able to give them when the awards were made. A casual glance…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

Empire · Saturday 17 September 1870 · page 3
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

ALL the brilliant features which have characterized the Exhibition since it was opened, fade into utter insignificance compared with the grand spectacle that was witnessed in Alfred Park yesterday. Long before nine…

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Exhibition of Works Made by Lunatics

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 September 1870 · page 11

[Translated for the Freeman's Journal from the Weekly Supplement of the Messenger of the Sacred Heart] Exhibitions are one of the favourite…

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The Jones's at the Exhibition. Discursive

Sydney Punch · Saturday 17 September 1870 · page 3

As long as I live I shall never forget Bloggs' kindness, and if ever he brings on that motion in the Council again, respecting metalling the lane at the back of his premises, I'll vote for him. He saw Mrs. J. and the children into a 'bus, and told them " that I had been obliged…

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Intercolonial Industrial Exhibition. Continuation of Description of Exhibits. Section Xl.—horticulture

Sydney Mail · Saturday 17 September 1870 · page 12

This department has lost none of its interest since the Exhibition was opened. Some of the most delicate plants and the cut flowers have been removed, but their places have been supplied by others equally beautiful. Mr…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

Empire · Monday 19 September 1870 · page 2

OWING, no doubt, to the very unpleasant weather, the Exhibition was but poorly attended on Saturday morning, the majority of the visitors being evidently from the country; but as the day wore on, the number on…

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The Intercolonial Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 September 1870 · page 5

THE cold and boistorous weather that prevailed did not deter a large number of visitors, estimated at seven or eight thousand, from gathering at the Exhibition on Saturday, although it prevented the ascent of Mr. Gale,…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition. This Day

Evening News · Monday 19 September 1870 · page 2

DURING this morning there was a steady stream of visitors to the park, those evidently from the country again forming the majority. The weather being so delightfully fine the inflation of the balloon was being…

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Melbourne Annual Horse Show

Evening News · Monday 19 September 1870 · page 4

The following is a condensed account of Messrs. M'Culloch, Campbell, and Co.'s annual said held at their bazaar. Bourke-street, last weet :- It is usual at these shows, to prevent confusion, for…

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The Exhibition and the Cheap Trains. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 September 1870 · page 2

SIR,—The Government should at once decide, and give a final public notice of the limitation of the time for the continuance of the cheap—yes, foolishly cheap—six shilling trains from Goulburn to Sydney and back (with other…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

Empire · Tuesday 20 September 1870 · page 3

DURING yesterday morning there was a steady stream of visitors to the Park, those evidently from the country again forming the majority. The weather being so delightfully fine, the inflation of the balloon was…

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The Intercolonial Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 September 1870 · page 5

THE fourth week of the Intercolonial Industrial Exhibition has been entered upon, and judging from the large number of perons there yesterday, the interest of the public in it would appear to have abated but little. Between the hour…

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