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Shows & fairs, 1882

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Bordeaux Wine Exhibition

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 September 1882 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The New South Wales Committee for the Bordeaux Exhibition have received, through tie courtesy of the Colonial Secretary, a copy of a letter from Mr. Darley, the Reprecntaive…

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Molong Agricultural Show. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Molong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 September 1882 · page 8

The fourth annual show of the Molong Pastoral and Agricultural Association took place yesterday, and was a great success, there being nearly a thousand persons present. The following are the principal winners:—Blood Horse…

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German National Fair. Exhibition Building, Prince Alfred Park

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 3

WITH a view to raising the funds required for the completion of the German Evangelical Church, now being erected in Sydney, the Teutonic residents of the city lately organized a German "National Fair" at the…

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Amsterdam International Exhibition

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 554

At the last weekly meeting of the New South Wales Commission for the Amsterdam International Exhibition, the secretary stated that he had communicated with different carrying agents, and received several tenders for the…

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The Bordeaux Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 10

LONDON, September 21.—The report of jurors on the wines exhibited by New Sou Wales vignerons at the Bordeaux Exhibition of a highly satisfactory character…

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Bordeaux Wine Exhibition

Evening News · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 6

The New South Wales committee for the Bordeaux Exhibition has received, through the courtesy of the Colonial Secretary, a copy of a letter from Mr. Darley, the representative commissioner for this…

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The Bordeaux Wine Exhibition

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 1

A private communication has been received by Mr. L. L. Smith, of Melbourne, from one of the Victorian representatives at the Bordeaux Wine Exhibition (Mr. H. Seward), from which we make…

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Flower Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 557

The spring and native flower show of the Eastern Suburbs Horticultural Society was opened on the 21st instant in one of the annexes of the Garden Palace. The number of exhibits was large, and the show as a whole satisfactory…

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Eastern Suburbs Flower Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 15

The last time the ill-fated Exhibition-building was [?]sed for a public exhibition, was only a few hours before its destruction. The spring and native flower show of the Eastern Suburbs Horticultural…

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Ladies Page. Gipsy's Notes. Flower show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 27

The spring exhibition of the Eastern suburbs Horncultural Society opened on Thursday afternoon (21st), in the Garden Palace. A band was in attendance, and performed some very pretty items, but the show,…

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Sheep at the Midland Show, Tasmania

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 555

The show of sheep (says the Tasmanian, of the 16th instant) without doubt was a grand one, and though not superior to last year's, was but little inferior. The display was almost exclusively confined to merinos, as the other…

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Home and Foreign. Ireland. the Irish Exhibition. an Immense National Demonsteation in Dublin. 40,000 Artisans in Line. a National Monument. Dublin, August 15, 1882

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 5

The centenary of Irish Legislative Independence, the unveiling of the O'Connell national memorial, and the opening of the National Exhibition commenced this morning…

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Ball at the Exhibition Building

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 October 1882 · page 3

As a wind-up of the day's festivities, a People's Annual Plain and Fancy Dress Ball was held in the old Exhibition building, Prince Alfred Park, and although it was not under the patronage of…

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Intercolonial Juvenile Exhibition

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 October 1882 · page 3

A meeting of the committee of the introduced Juvenile Industrial Exhibition was held yesterday afternoon at the offices, Garden Palace grounds There were present--Mrssrs. John Davis, M.P…

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Amsterdam International Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 October 1882 · page 12

At the last weekly meeting of the New South Wales Commission for the Amsterdam International Exbibition, the secretary stated that he had communicated with different [?]arrying agents, and received several tenders for the…

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Deputations. Agricultural Society

Evening News · Friday 6 October 1882 · page 2

A deputation, consisting of Messrs. W. W. Richardson (president), W. Bradley, and R. W. Grierson (secretary), waited on the Colonial Secretary this morning to represent the Agricultural…

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Latest Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Our Special Telegram (From Our Own Correspondent.) the Bordeaux Wine Exhibition. London, Oct. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 October 1882 · page 7

The jurors at the Bordeaux International Wine Exhibition have recommended that eight gold and fifteen silver medals should be awarded to New South Wales exhibitors…

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Agricultural Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 October 1882 · page 9

Yesterday, a deputation, consisting of Mr. W. W. Richardson (Chairman of the Agricultural Society). Mr. Walter Bradley, and the Secretary of the Society (Mr. R. W. Grierson) waited upon Sir Henry Parkes to ask for…

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Deputations. New South Walks Agricultural Society

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 October 1882 · page 6

A deputation, consisting of Messrs. W, W. Richardson, Walter Bradley, and R. W. Grierson (secretary), waited upon the Colonial Secretary, for the purpose of asking Government assistance…

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