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Shows & fairs, 1870

421 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 22

The Royal Academy Exhibition of Pictures. (From the Athenaum.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 July 1870 · page 6

So far as our opportunities permit us to form a judgment of the character and quality of this Exhibition, it is about on a level with the average of its forerunners, noteworthy on…

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Intercolonial Industrial Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 July 1870 · page 2

THE three days' rain which visited the city last weeky together with what has since fallen, has not been at all acceptable on the Prince Alfred Park. It has filched away far more than the…

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Intercolonial Industrial Exhibition

Sydney Mail · Saturday 23 July 1870 · page 4

THE three days' rain which visited the city last week, together with what has since fallen, hag not been at all acceptable on the Prince Alfred Park. It has filched away far more than the…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 July 1870 · page 4

RAIN and mud have done more to retard progress than even municipal differences and procrastinations; still the indefatigable contractor has moved on, and very rapidly too. In spite of whispers of a postponement…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

Evening News · Monday 25 July 1870 · page 4

RAIN and mud have done more to retard progress than even municipal differences and procrastinations; still the indefatigable contractor has moved on, and very rapidly too. In spite of whispers of a postponement…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

Empire · Tuesday 26 July 1870 · page 3

At a meeting of the council held on Wednesday morning, the lease of the building for the two months per annum to the society was, by direction of the corporation, submitted for signature. Payment of rent…

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Intercolonial Industrial Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 July 1870 · page 5

THE weather will disjoint the best planned enterprises, turn advantages into disadvantages, victorics into detents, and generally disorder human affairs. The French say that Napoleon…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

Evening News · Friday 29 July 1870 · page 2

So postponement has been found necessary after all, and for a fortnight-and that too in the face of a determined opposition offered to such a proceeding by the Council of the Agricultural Society. We are…

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Intercolonial Industrial Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 July 1870 · page 4
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THERE is something proverbial about the Agricultural pace not altogether flattering to the bucolic fraternity. As an illustration of this, a smart sweep, when driving his ass, was heard to rebuke the…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 July 1870 · page 4

So postponement has been found necessary after all, and for a fortnight—and that too in the face of a determined opposition offered to such a proceeding by the Council of the Agricultural Society. We are…

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The Exhibition of Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 July 1870 · page 12

THERE must be some way of accounting for the small number of entries in the sheep classes at the coming show; and it is not good to see such an influential and numerous class of our colonists as the sheep farmers so…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

Empire · Monday 1 August 1870 · page 3

So postponement has been found necessary after all, and for a fortnight—and that too in the face of a determined opposition offered to such a proceeding by the Council of the Agricultural Society. We are…

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The Exhibition Building

Illustrated Sydney News · Wednesday 3 August 1870 · page 3

THE old adage—" There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip "—has been verified in the case of the Agricultural Society's Exhibition of 1870. Not that any effort has been spared, auy time lost, or that any blame can be attached to any person…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

Empire · Friday 5 August 1870 · page 2

THE Agricultural Society appears to be fully alive to the necessity of securing, so far as is possible, the safety of the valuable commodities which will be entrusted to their care, and at a meeting of the exhibition…

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The Intercolonial Industrial Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 August 1870 · page 5

Since we last chronicled the affairs of the Exhibition a rainfall of twenty-four hours, or thereabouts, has occurred, and the course of preparation in Prince Alfred Park has been…

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The Intercolonial Exhibition

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 3

As an appreciative inspection of the treasures of colonial art and manufacture which will be collected at the forthcoming Exhibition will necessarily occupy a considerable time, it is of great importance to the…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 4

IN a little more than three weeks from the present date, the Agricultural Seciety have to be in a position to welcome at the doors of the Exhibition the thousands of guests who will, undoubtedly, present themselves…

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Intercolonial Industrial Exhibition

Sydney Mail · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 4

SINCE we last chronicled the affairs of the Exhibition a rainfall of twenty-four hours, or thereabouts, has occurred, and the course of preparation in Prince Alfred Park has been…

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Science—invention— Construction. Penson's Patent Exhibition Sunlight Refleotor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 12

ONE of the most important accessories to the exhibition building in Prince Alfred Park, is undoubtedly the means of lighting it at night, and we are glad to learn that the gas fittings now being erected for the…

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