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THE Horticultural Society of New South Wales held their autumnal exhibition in the lower Botanic Gardens yeaterday. A more dreary prospect for a successful show could not have been imagined. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I am not surprised that so much discussion and difference of opinion should exist in judging wool by points. The idea is indeed a novel one, and when better known, (and with some modification) will not perhaps create so…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE opening of the Autumnal exhibition of plants, flowers, &c., in connection with the Horticultural Society of New South Wales proved most inauspicious. The rain poured down heavily, and the weather on Wednesday and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Allow me to correct a mistake regarding some plants which I sent to the Exhibition. Some of these plants, more especially the Dra[?]nias, looked as if they were oiled; after making inquiries of my gardener as to the reason of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THIS Exhibition was held on tue 2nd instant at Armdal[?] From the very few exhibits which had been brought in up to Wednesday evening, it was anticipated that the show, to some extent, would be a failure. This feeling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE usual monthly meeting of the Council was held at the Society's rooms on Wednesday morning, at 11, Sir Willinm Macarthur (president) in the chair. The members present being his Excellency the Earl of Belmore, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY has had the honour of holding the first Australasian Exhibition of Wool for which that title can legitimately be claimed. The shows held in Melbourne a few years age were too limited in extent to be classed in that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →IF the correspondence wliich the above has given rise to in the metropolitan press, and the discussions of the committee appointed to revise the schedule for the next exhibition tend to anything, they do most certainly…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THIS Exhibition was held on the 2nd instant at Armidale From the very few exhibits which had been brought in up to Wednesday evening, it was anticipated that the show, to some extent, would be a failure. This feeling…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IF the correspondence which the above has given rise to in the metropolitan press, and the discussions of the committee appointed to revise the schedule for the next exhibition tend to anything, they do mos certainly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—By some unaccountable error on the part of the ship's agent, in your report of the manifest of the Parramatta no mention is made of our shipment of goods for the London Exhibition of 1871. A similar neglect…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →1 crate from Goodlet and Smith, containing pottery, vases, paving tiles, clays, and shale. 4 cases from John Wyndham, Esq., Dalwood—wines, &c. 1 case sundries: M. A. Munn's maizena, starch, &c.;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE usual monthly meeting of the Council wee held at the Society's rooms on Wednesday, 8th instant, at 11, Sir William Macarthur (president) in the chair. The members present being his Excellency the Earl of Belmore, the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →It has been suggested, in influential quarters that an Irish Exhibition of Portraits, after the model of the one held a few years. ago in South Kensington, at the instance of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—I have often heard of the mountain in labour, and what it produced, and of the dire effects of a puddle in a storm; but never were these remarkable natural phenomena so forcibly brought to my mind…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →SIR,—I notice in your issue of the 11th, a paper on "The Late Wool Exhibition." The writer makes some strictures upon the committee, in framing the prize schedule for 1872, for introducing a new classification…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE annual show of the Central New England Pastoral and Agricultural Association was oponed at Inverell last Wednesday. We learn by telegram that it was in every way very successful, nearly all the classes of exhibits…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY a silkshow was opened at the rooms of the Agricultural Society, George-street. The show is not large, but it serves its purpose. It brings people together; gives a notion as to who are seriously engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Dear Sir,—'Observing that your society is taking up the question of sericulture, I have drawn the attention of the council of this society to the fact, with a view to the co-operation of the two bodies…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE National Agricultural Society commenced work last Monday, when the council met for the first time. There was a capital attendance, and a warm interest was evinced in the preliminary arrangements which necessarily…
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