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Shows & fairs, 1876

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The Exhibition Outside the Cattle Ring

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 15

I AM glad to see that the special correspondent of your contemporary, the Queenslander, has "doue" the stockthoroughly, and given his opinion on the merita of the different exhibits. It is in this way that our…

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Champion Cattle at the 1876 Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 649

Thin week's illustrated supplement contains the portraits of the two champion Devons of the year—Buttercup 2nd, an imported cow of grand quality, and Sunflower, a young bull; both the property of the well-known Northern…

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The Grazier. Cattle at the Metropolitan Exhibition. No. 2. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 15

SIR,—The number and quality of Herefords and Devons exhibited show that some of our wealthy stockholders have beeu at considerable expense in the introduction of choice speciemens of these famous old breeds…

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The Visit of Farmer Cobb and His Wife to the Exhibition. Chapter I.

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 663

IT was a cause for wonder and rejoicing to all Farmer Cobb's sons and daughters when, their father and mother actually made up their minds to go to Sydney and see the grand Exhibition…

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Australia at the Philadelphia Exhibition

Evening News · Thursday 25 May 1876 · page 2

From Mr. Robinson, the Secretary for the Colonial Commission, we learn that nearly two hundred packages of the exhibits from New South Wales, the first British Colony planted in Australia,…

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The Exhibition Gates

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 27 May 1876 · page 1

THE engraving on our first page contains a view of the gates at the opening of Exhibition. The scene there presented is one that will not readily be forgotten by those who witnessed it. The most cold and unimpressible constitution…

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Awards at the Exhibition

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 27 May 1876 · page 14

FROM the official report of the Judges at the Exhibition we extract the following remarks, as representing sections in "which many of our readers are specially interested:— MESSRS. F. LASSETTER AND CO.—This extensive…

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Academy of Arts Exhibition

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 27 May 1876 · page 11

THE exhibition of the New South Wales Academy of Arts, after having been open to the public for about a month, in the building situated in Elizabeth-street, has drawn to a close. It is hardly to be expected that…

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Exhibits at the Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 27 May 1876 · page 5

AMONG the most attractive and pleasing sights that adorned the interior of the Exhibition must be classed the numerous ornamental show cases, of polished mahogany, with glass sides and ends and handsomely carved mountings. Many…

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Poultry for Use and Poultry for Show

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 27 May 1876 · page 6

An English poultry raiser says:—"Poultry shows were originated partly with the intention of improving our useful breeds of poultry. Some enthusiastic fanciers assured us that it was the easiest thing imaginable to breed fowls in…

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The Land. One Grand Show for the South Coast

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1876 · page 676

MR. Dymock, a well-known auctioneer on the South Coast, has of late advocated through the columns of oar southern contemporaries united action on the part of the agricnltuial societies along the southern coast, in order that one…

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The Visit of Farmer Cobb and His Wife to the Exhibition. Chapter Iii. (Conclusion.)

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1876 · page 699

BOB COBB and his sisters were surprised to see their parents come home to breakfast five days sooner than they were expected; nevertheless, there was a loving welcome for them. The news of their safe return was…

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One Grand Show for the South Coast. (From the Sydney Mail.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 May 1876 · page 3

MR. Dymock, a well-known auctioneer on the South Coast, has of late advocated through the columns of our southern contemporaries united action on the part of the agricultural societies along the southern coast, in order that one…

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Philadelphia Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 June 1876 · page 5

A MEETING of the Commissioners of the Exhibition was held at the office yesterday afternoon. There were present —Mr. W. Wallis, in the chair; Comm[?]nder Stackhouse, R. N.; the Rev. W. B. Clarke, M.A.; Mr. W. Wolfen,…

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Caught in His Own Web(b); Or, None But the Brave Deserves the Fair

Sydney Punch · Friday 2 June 1876 · page 8

("The Mayor of Bathurst, MR WEBB, convened the meeting, and, as was only natural under the circumstances, there was a very large attendance of 'fayre ladyes,'--so large, in fact, that the Mayor became fidgetty; and remaining only long enough to stammer his pleasure at seeing so many fair ones, he bolted, and left…

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Philadelphia Exhibition

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 June 1876 · page 723

A MEETING of the Commissioners of the Exhibition was held at the office on Wednesday afternoon. There were present —Mr. W. Wallis. in the chair; Commander Stackhouse, R.N.: the Rev. W. B. Clarke, M.A.; Mr. W. Wolfen,…

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News of the Day. Prize Lawyers for the Centennial Exhibition

Evening News · Wednesday 7 June 1876 · page 2

Mr. Buchanan gave notice yesterday, that on Tuesday next he would move for the appropriation of a sum of £1000, to send a team of lawyers to Philadelphia, to contend with the far-famed Philadelphia…

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Agricultural Society of N.S.W.

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 June 1876 · page 8

THE usual monthly meeting of the Council was held at the Society's Room, 227, George-s' reet, on Wednesday 7th inst., at 11 a.m., W. Wallis in the chair. Present— E. B. Woodhouse, John Alger, M. Lowe, E. L Montefiore…

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Philadelphia Exhibition

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1876 · page 745

The illustration on page 4 of oar supplement affords a general view of the Exhibition Main Building and Machinery Hall. The Slain Exhibition Building ia a parallelogram,…

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The Philadelphia Exhibition

Evening News · Monday 12 June 1876 · page 2

Mr. Charles Robinson has forwarded several letters in his capacity of secretary to the Philawdelphis Commission, to the Chief-Secretary. From them we glean that he had, at the time of writing,…

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