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Shows & fairs, 1870

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales

Empire · Friday 7 October 1870 · page 3

WHEN our last summary was despatched the Exhibition bad been opened about a week, and it is our pleasing task, to state that the success whick had attended its progress up to that time never diminished…

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Centenary Musical Festival in the Exhibition Building

Empire · Friday 7 October 1870 · page 2

THE first of the Festival Concerts, preceded by Henry Leslie's arrangement of the National Anthem, took place in the Exhibition Building last evening. The arrangements were, as we described them yesterday,…

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The Exhibition in Prince Alfred Park, Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 October 1870 · page 8

THE summary of news by the Avoca contained an account of the ceremony observed on the occasion of the opening of the Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition on the 30th August. This Exhibition was called into existence under…

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Centenary Musical Festival in the Exhibition Building. the Creation

Evening News · Friday 7 October 1870 · page 2

The first of the Festival Concerts, preceded by Henry Leslie's arrangement of the National Anthem, took place in the Exhibition Building on Thursday evening. The arrangements were, aa have been described…

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The Exhibition

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 8 October 1870 · page 3

The Intercolonial Exhibition has closed at last, and we do not think that any one, except the members of the Society, who mismanaged it, will regret the fact. Financially a success, in every other respect it as been a pitiable…

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Spencer's Mechanical Exhibition

Sydney Mail · Saturday 8 October 1870 · page 3

THIS place of amusement was opened on Saturday last, and is, without exception, the most entertaining and instructive collection of the kind that has ever yet been offered to the public in this colony. The room in which the…

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The Tasmanian Merino at the Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 October 1870 · page 12

THE department of sheep at the Intercolonial Exhibition was confessedly weak more especially in the merino classes, various causes having contributed to this result, the weather, the unexampled state of the roads,…

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Centenary Musical Festival in the Exhibition Building

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 October 1870 · page 5

THE first of the Festival Concerts, preceded by Henry Leslie's arrangement of the National Anthem, took place in the Exhibition' Building on Thursday evening. The arrangements were, aa have been described…

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Centenary Musical Festival in the Exhibition Building. "The Messiah."

Evening News · Saturday 8 October 1870 · page 2
Also in Empire

THIS grand work was given last evening and it was gratifying to see that the enterprise of the Messrs. Hall, to whom the public are inde[?]d for these complete performances was rewarded by a larger audience than…

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A Baby Show. [From Our English Correspondent.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 October 1870 · page 10

EIGHTY babies averaging say twenty-five pounds each. One ton or thereabouts of live infants on view. Such was a sight by which I was attracted to merrie Islington very recently. I do not profess…

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A Baby Show

Evening News · Wednesday 12 October 1870 · page 4

EIGHTY babies averaging say twenty-five pounds each. One ton or thereabouts of live infants on view. Such was a sight by which I was attracted to merrie Islington very recently. I do not profess…

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The Agricultural Society's Ball

Evening News · Thursday 13 October 1870 · page 2
Also in Empire

THIS interesting event, culminating the triumphs of the society's late Exhibition, took place last evening in the building in Alfred Park. It is almost impossible to convey an idea of the great change which had been…

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The Brave and the Fair

Empire · Thursday 13 October 1870 · page 3

The following interesting narrative, which appeared in a letter from Saarbruck, was written by the Daily News correspondent the day before the French occupied that town:—"A young and thriving…

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A Baby Show

Empire · Thursday 13 October 1870 · page 4

EIGHTY babies averaging say twenty-five pounds each. One ton or thereabouts of live infants on view. Such was a sight by which I was attracted to merrie Islington very recently. I do not profess…

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The Agricultural Society's Ball

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 October 1870 · page 5

THIS interesting event, culminating the triumphs of the society's late Exhibition, took place last evening in the building in Alfred Park. It is almost impossible to convey an idea of the great change which had been…

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Spencer's Mechanical Exhibition

Sydney Punch · Saturday 15 October 1870 · page 7

THERE is no place of amusement in Sydney to which Mr. PUNCH can, with greater confidence, recommend his readers to pay a visit than to Spencer's Mechanical Exhibition in Pitt-street. Arranged with great taste in a well-lighted and well-decorated room is a…

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My Visit to Sydney and the Exhibition and the Lessons it Taught

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 October 1870 · page 10

THAT grand conception of "Albert the Good"—the world's Exhibition of 1851—was but the response, the echo of the teachings for years previously of the Society of Friends, in their "peace society." The…

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A Victorian View of the Sydney Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 October 1870 · page 2

MR. JOSIAH MITCHELL, of the Royal Park Melbourne, writes the following account of the exhibition in Sydney to the Melbourne Leader:- That the Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition has proved a…

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