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Shows & fairs, 1880

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Sydney International Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 March 1880 · page 6

The near approach of the date of the final closing of the Exhibition is inducing a great many persons to avail themselves of the brief opportunity they will have for inspecting the wonders of the Garden Palace. The…

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International Exhibition Pigeon Match

Evening News · Thursday 18 March 1880 · page 3

A meeting of [?] interested in the organisation of a grand international handicap pigeon match, open to all com[?] to take place at Sydney in Easter week took place at Tartersall's Hotel yesterday afternoon, Mr. c…

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Inverell Pastoral and Agricultural Show. [By Electric Telegraph.] Inverell

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 March 1880 · page 3

To-day was the first day of the Pastoral and Agricultural Association's show. The attendance was numerous, and the entries reached 700. The show of blood and draught stock, backs, buggy…

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Inverell Pastoral and Agricultural Show. [By Telegram.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Inverell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 March 1880 · page 5

To-day was the first day of the Pastoral and Agricultural Association's Show. The attendance was numerous, and reached 700. There was a grand show of blood and draught stock, hacks, buggy horses,…

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Exhibition Awards

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1880 · page 7

The following award was omitted from the list we published yesterday, in the class for vegetable products:— R. Harper and Co., Sydney, cocoa in beans—1st…

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Exhibition Sports

Evening News · Friday 19 March 1880 · page 3

These competitors who were successful in the sports at he Exhibition Grounds, on last Saturday afternoon, will be presented with their prices to-morrow evening, at Punch's Hotel. By our advertising columns, it will be…

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International Exhibition

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 March 1880 · page 4
Also in Evening News

Borne decrease in the attendance at the Garden Palace might have been expected, but it was not so great yesterday as to cause any particular (remark. The Art Gallery had again its fair share of visitors,…

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Sydney International Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1880 · page 7

The fine weather yesterday and the desire to see as much as possible of the attractions at the Garden Palace have had the effect of attracting a very large number of visitors to the Exhibition. Some of the…

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The Melbourne Exhibition

Evening News · Friday 19 March 1880 · page 2

LONDON, March 17.—The British Commissioners have decided to leave the representation of Great Britain at the International Exhibition at Melbourne…

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Exhibition Awards. To the Editor

Evening News · Friday 19 March 1880 · page 3

SIR,—When I forwarded my letter of 12th instant I had no intention of entering into a newspaper controversy, or of taking up much of your valuable space, but merely to state some plain facts, which,…

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The Bombala Agricultural Society's Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 567

The southern portion of the great Monaro district, of which Bombala is the capital, has had its full share of the drought that has prevailed during the past few seasons, and the depression was so great at Bombala in consequence…

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The Exhibition

Sydney Punch · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 8

ON Wednesday last the International Exhibition of New South Wales completed its…

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Exhibition Awards

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 3
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

The judges have made the following recommendations in reference to metallurgical products exhibited in the Garden Palace:— Belgium: The Cockerill Company, iron and steel—above…

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International Exhibition

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 6
Also in Evening News

There was a noticeable falling off in the attendance at the Garden Palace yesterday, although, as far as regarded weather and other things, there was no perceptible cause for it. About noon the…

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The Grazier. The Wool Show at the International Exhibition. No. 3

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 18

SUB. class 16, of division D., concludes the exhibits of fine-combiner wool washed. It consists of six ewe hoggets' fleeces, unskirted. Messrs. Olive and Hamilton (first prize) seem to have been fortunate with…

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Sydney International Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 3

The German Court is the only one at the Exhibition in which the work of packing up and removing the goods is being carried on to any large extent, and even there the inconvenience to the public is not great,…

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The Melbourne Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 16

LONDON, March 17.—The British Commissioners have decided to leave the representation of Great Britain at the International Exhibition at Melbourne…

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