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Shows & fairs, 1878

752 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 38

Metropolitan Exhibition

Evening News · Monday 22 April 1878 · page 3

THIS morning was a busy time at the Exhibition Building and grounds, numbers of exhibitors and their employees being engaged staging and arranging their goods for the opening to-morrow. Perishable articles…

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Exhibition Plough Trials

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 April 1878 · page 5

THE field trial of the ploughs entered for competition, at the forthcoming Metropolitan Exhibition was held on Saturday, at Mr. Asnip's farm, which is [?]tuated about one and a-half mile on the Sydney side of Liverpool. The…

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Awards in Wine at the Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 April 1878 · page 5

THE following are the awards in the Wine Section at the Exhibition:- Best white wine, not older than the vintage of 1876: First prize, £2; second prize, £1—James Kelman,…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 April 1878 · page 5

IT is a decade since the idea of holding annual exhibitions here was first carried into effect. Since that time they have been extensive and attended with unvarying success. They have proved attractive, not alone to people in this colony,…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition of 1878

Evening News · Tuesday 23 April 1878 · page 2

AT noon to-day tenth Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition of New South Wales was formally opened by the Hon. John Hay, President of the Legislative Council, acting for his Excellency sir Hercules Robinson, who…

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The Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 April 1878 · page 5
Also in Evening News

THE tenth annual Exhibition of the Agricultura Soceity of New South Wales was opened with very much success yesterday morning, at the Exhibition building, in the Prince Alfred Park. The weather…

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Government Notices. Government Railways. Gaeat Southern, Western, and Richmond Lines. [?]Tropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition, 1878

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 April 1878 · page 8

EXCURSION TICKETS, at a single fare for the double journey, will be issued at all stations to Sydney from MONDAY, the 22nd, to THURSDAY, 2nd May, 1878, inclusive, available for return until the Exhibition…

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The Exhibition

Evening News · Thursday 25 April 1878 · page 2

To-day is a very quiet-one at the Exhibition, for although the weather is again gloriously fine, the attendance is extremely limited. It is quite clear that them in not sufficient Attraction in the building…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition. [Second Day.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 April 1878 · page 3

THE Exhibition yesterday morning presented quite a lively appearance. Crowds of people were on the ground from the time of opening. Our country friends were chiefly engaged with the machinery, and…

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The Exhibition

Evening News · Friday 26 April 1878 · page 3

To-day, the fourth doy of the Exhibition, everything is dull at Prince Alfred Park. There are very few visitors—three or four hundred up to noon, and those who have attended do not appear to take much…

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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 April 1878 · page 6

THERE was a very fair attendance of the public at the Exhibition building in the Prince Alfred Park, yesterday, among whom there was a large proportion country people, evidently bent upon admiring everything, and enjoying…

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Government Notices. Government Railways. Great Southern, Western, and Richmond Lines. Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition, 1878

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 April 1878 · page 8

EXCURSION TICKETS, at a single fare for the double [?] will be issued at all stations to Sydney from MONDAY, the 22nd. to THURSDAY, 2nd May, 1878, inclusive, available for return until the Exhibition…

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The Proposed Centennial Exhibition Buildings and Technological College. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 April 1878 · page 7

SIR,—Whilst trusting that your excellent suggestion as to initiatory steps being at once taken to ensure the Centennial birthday of the colony being commemorated in an appropriate manner, it does not appear to me that either of the…

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Suplemental Summary of News for Transmission to America and Europe, Per R. M. S. Australia. [?]Tropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 April 1878 · page 6

THE tenth annual Exhibition of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales was opened with very much success, on Tuesday last, at the Exhibition building, in the Prince Alfred Park. The weather was very suitable to the…

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales. Metropolitan Exhibition of 1878

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 April 1878 · page 554

FOR the tenth time the New South Wales Agricultural Society has possession of Alfred Park, and Sydney is in the midst of her carnival time. It was a happy thought that which led the society to ally itself…

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Western Pastoral and Agricultural Society. Second Day, April 17

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 April 1878 · page 550

BATHURST was again favoured with fine weather for the second or last day of its show, and, contrary to general anticipations, there was a large attendance, which was estimated at not less than 1200 persons. Before the…

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The Exhibition

Sydney Punch · Saturday 27 April 1878 · page 8
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal, Freeman's Journal

All the world and his wife-- Punch means the Sydney world, fashionable and scientific-- assembled on Tuesday to grace the morning opening of the Exhibition ; and during the following days and evenings the show was largely attended by the mechanical,…

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