The Paris Exhibition
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 August 1878 · page 5
A meeting of the Commissioners for the Paris Exhibition was held yesterday afternoon. Present—Mr. Brodribb, F.R.S., in the chair, Mr. Halloran, C.M.G., Mr. Wallis, Mr. Moore, Mr. Morris, Mr. Montefiore, and Mr. Adams…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 August 1878 · page 6
In pursuance of an arrangement for holding the annual ploughing match each year at a different centre of farming population, the contest took place this season in a large paddock, the property of Mr. Barlow, at Jindera. The…
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Evening News · Tuesday 20 August 1878 · page 2
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—The exhibition of the National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland was opened to-day, by his Excellency the Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy. A guard…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 August 1878 · page 5
Sir,—Mr Henry S. Badgery, in his letter published to day, observes of the above project that it "must end in honourable withdrawal or miserable failure and disgrace." Now, I hope I showed, in the letter you were good…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 August 1878 · page 6
The following copy of a letter from M. Jules Joubert to the chairman of the Commission in Sydney will be read with interest:- "PARIS, July 4…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 August 1878 · page 7
The entire show may be said to represent every conceivable ideal connected with modern French life, civil, municipal, social, domestic, and personal. The appliances of eating, drinking, and dressing, the house, stable, and…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 August 1878 · page 5
The third Exhibition of the National Agricultural and Industrial Association was opened this morning by his Excellency Sir Arthur Kennedy, in the presence of a vast concourse of spectators. The weather, which…
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Evening News · Thursday 22 August 1878 · page 2
BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The Exhibition is well patronised to-day, but there is nothing new in connection with the snow worth noticing; but business is dull in consequence of the Exhibition…
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Evening News · Friday 23 August 1878 · page 2
BRISBANE, Thursday.—The Exhibition was attended, this morning, and the early visitors had a good opportunity of inspecting the exhibits. An exhibit of a portable…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 August 1878 · page 3
Sir,—Mr. Maiden's letter in your issue of to-day appears to me to be rathor intended to convey censure on the colony, in general, and the Government in particular, than to offer, any valid excuse for his opposition to the proposed…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 295
The sixth annual exhibition and parade of thoroughbred and draught stallions, under the management of the National Agricultural Society of Victoria, was held in the society's show-yards, St. Kilda Road, on Monday, the 12th instant…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 297
We learn that the Government have intimated to the Council of the Agricultural Society that it is not their intention to advance the £10,000 asked for, or to invite Parliament for a grant, in aid of the Exhibition proposed to be…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 295
In pursuance of an arrangement for holding the annual Ploughing match each year at a different centre of farming population, the contest took place this season in a large paddock, the property of Mr. Barlow, at Jindera. The…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 297
BRISBANE, TUESDAY.—The third Exhibition of the National Agricultural and Industrial Association was opened this morning by his Excellency Sir Arthur Kennedy, in the presence of a vast concourse of spectators. The weather…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 290
"The Kermesse of the Orangery of the Tuileries" came off in Paris recently with great eclat, the noblest and richest dames of the gay world of Paris being the saleswomen, the most elegant dandies acting as commissaries, all the princes…
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Sydney Punch · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 3
There has been a storm in the Council of the Agricultural Society about the proposed International Exhibition. The society wishes to have the exhibition. The majority of the council--consisting mainly of squatters and their hangers-on--have boldly resolved to set aside…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 10
BRISBANE, Tuesday. — The exhibition of the National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland was opened to-day, by his Excellency the Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy. A guard…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 294
With regard to the wool exhibits of this colony at the Paris Exhibition, Mr. Joubert, the secretary of the Executive Commissioners in Paris, writes to Mr. P. N. Trebeck, of this city, as follows:—"Paris, July 2, 1878.—My dear…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 7
The French have been more behindhand with their Pine Art section than with nny other part of tho Exhibition. Contemporary painting and sculpture in France and other countries are housed in a series, of galleries of various sizes…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 297
The schedule of prizes for the first annual exhibition of poultry, pigeons, and canaries, of the newly formed Poultry Society has been issued in a neat pamphlet form, and appears both liberal and well arranged. Over…
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