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Shows & fairs, 1878

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The Paris Exhibition. London, June 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 June 1878 · page 5

The French Assembly voted 120,000 francs for the Exhibition fete…

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Our Fair Contributors

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 June 1878 · page 838

WE shall always be happy to give insertion to suitable remarks from our lady readers in this column. Mutual improvement may be thus assisted, and the benefits of the observations or reflections of one or two communicated to…

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The Paris Exhibition

Evening News · Saturday 15 June 1878 · page 4

New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Western Australia are well represented at the Paris Exhibition. The Hon. Wm. Forster, Agent-General for New South Wales…

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The Proposed International Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 June 1878 · page 12
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

ON Wednesday, at 11 o'clock, the adjourned meeting of the Council of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales was held at the society's rooms, George-street, for discussing the question of the International Exhibition. There were…

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Accepted Design for the International Exhibition Building

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 15 June 1878 · page 6

IN the last session of the Victorian Parliament the Government introduced a bill to provide for holding an International Exhibition in Melbourne, and to furnish the means for erecting the necessary buildings, &c. That…

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The Grazier. The Dubbo Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 June 1878 · page 18

THE summing up I meant sending you last week, of the North-Western Society's Show, having been unfortunately prevented, there are some remarks I wish to make on the live stock I saw there;…

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The Grazier. The Agricultural Society

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 19

FOR years Past I've been every now and again forced to find fault with the management of the Metropolitan Agricultural Society; but when a good infusion of new blood took place into the…

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Australia at the Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 25

England and her colonies make the best display at the Exhibition after France. The following telegrams, that came to Australia since the opening, summarise the Australian…

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Exhibition Prizes.—Political News

Evening News · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 4

BRISBANE, Friday.—At the Gympie Agricultural Show, yesterday, the first prize awarded for blood stock fell to Cha[?]ton. For draught stock Young [?]terprise obtained the first prize. In Herefords…

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Sketches at the Paris Exhibition

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 880

WE complete oar series of sketches showing the facades of the buildings allotted to the various nationalities, &c, at the Paris Exhibition. One facade is, it will be observed, entirely Oriental, being tho accommodation for the…

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Ladies' Column. Ladies Costumes at the Recent Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 29

THERE are amongst us those who affected to regard the recent Intercolonial Exhibition held in this city, under the auspices of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales, as a failure. On the other hand members of…

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Opening of the Paris Exhibition. Paris, May 1, 1878

Evening News · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 3

THE great International Exposition was opened to-day by Manual MacMahon, President of the Republic, surrounded by a distinguished throng and before 100,000 people, under circumstances of…

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The Paris Exhibition. Dover, 13th June, A.D., 1878

Sydney Punch · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 1

A MD. PUNCH de Sydney. Most illustrious Signor, You will pardon the exuberance of the style in which I address you, when I state officially that I have found (and thereat do I…

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Opening of the Paris Exhibition, [By Cable to the New York Herald.] Paris, May 1,1878

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 22

THE great International Exposition was opened to-day by Marshal MacMahon, President of the Republic, surrounded by a distinguished throng and before 100,000 people, under circumstances of…

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Opening of the Paris Exhibition. (From the N. Y. Tribune, May 2.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 June 1878 · page 8

THE Paris Exhibition was opened yesterday under the happiest auspices. President MacMahon arrived at the Trocadero at 2 o'clock, escorted by his military household. He was received by the Minister of…

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Opening of the Paris Exhibition. [From Our Special Correspondent.] Paris, May 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 June 1878 · page 3

IN the present unfinished state of this great Exhibition, I am most reluctantly compelled to confine this report to generalities. Although there are thousands of exhibits upon which your readers will have to be…

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Exhibition of the Academy of Art

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 June 1878 · page 5

ALTHOUGH we are deprived this year of a general exhibition at pictures—which it was hoped, when once established, would be considered a permanent annual instituation—yet we are glad to see that an opportunity has been afforded to…

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The Proposed International Exhibition. To the Editor

Evening News · Wednesday 26 June 1878 · page 3

SIR,—There is something like a consensus of opinion that this colony has drifted into an undertaking to open its doors next year to all corners, and to provide the needful accommodation and convenience for exhibits of every kind and from…

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Victoria at the Paris Exhibition

Evening News · Thursday 27 June 1878 · page 3

A gentleman, writing from London to the Melbourne ARGUS, says:—"I went over to the opening of the Paris Exhibition—which, by the way, is not yet nearly complete—and the extent of it is beyond…

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