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Shows & fairs, 1886

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Fair-trade in America

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1886 · page 7

We commend (says the London Echo of November 26) Mr. Shearman's letter on free-trad and protection in the United States to those advocates of fair-trade among ourselves who think…

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Colonial and Indian Exhibition

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1886 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen, secretary to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, has complained to the Prince of Wales, executive…

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Exhibition of Stock in Buenos Ayres

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1886 · page 63

The International Rural Exhibition at Buenos Ayres, Argentine Federation, which will commence on the 25th of April next, will remain open for one month. The first section of the prize schedule is for purebred cattle, with separate…

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Crystal Palace Poultry, Pigeon, and Rabbit Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1886 · page 64

The Mark Lane Express of November 23 says: The 17th annual show of poultry, pigeons, and rabbits was opened on Monday at the Crystal Palace, when nearly 7000 exhibits in the various classes made up a collection…

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The American Exhibition

Evening News · Monday 11 January 1886 · page 4

LONDON, January 10.—The American exhibition of arts and manufactures, which was originally intended to be held in London during 1886, has been postponed for a year…

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Indo-Colonial Exhibition

Evening News · Monday 11 January 1886 · page 6

LONDON, January 7.—Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen, secretary of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition Commission, has complained to the Prince of Wales in reference to the neglect of New South…

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The Proposed American Exhibition

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1886 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.--The grand International Exhibition, proposed to be bold in the United States, has been postponed for a year…

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American Exhibition in London. London, Jan. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1886 · page 8

The American exhibition of arts and manufactures, which, was originally intended to be hold in London during 1886, has been post-poned for a year…

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The Prince of Wales and the Jubilee Exhibition [By Telegraph.]

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1886 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Sunday.--The South Australian Australian Advertiser in an article on the south Australian Jubilee Exhibition writes on Saturday as follows :-- "The Prince of Wales…

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Exhibition Commissioners

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1886 · page 4

The Government, we are given to understand, have appointed the following gentlemen additional commissioners of the New South Wales Commission to represent the colony in London…

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Local Industry. the Indo-colonial Exhibition

Evening News · Tuesday 12 January 1886 · page 6

We have been shown a fine assortment of fancy tweeds and shawls, from the tweed factory of Messrs. J. Vicars and Son. Sussex-street, which are to be forwarded in the Orient to the Indo-Colonial…

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The Agricultural Society

Evening News · Wednesday 13 January 1886 · page 5

To-day Mr. Walter Bradley, Mr. J. de V. Lamb, and Mr. F. Webster (secretary), waited on the Mayor, Mr. John Young, to urge him to ask Parliament to give the council power to lease its land at…

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Local Industry. the Indo-colonial Exhibition

Evening News · Wednesday 13 January 1886 · page 6

We have been shown a fine assortment of fancy tweeds and shawls, from the tweed factory of Messrs. J. Vicars and Son, Sussex-street, which are to be forwarded in the Orient to the Indo-Colonial…

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Indo-Colonial Exhibition. Jewellery and Other Works in Silver

Evening News · Wednesday 13 January 1886 · page 5

The samples of jewellery and of art work in silver which Mr. Evan Jones, of Hunter-street, Sydney, has arranged to forward to the Indo-Colonial Exhibition in London, reflect great credit on the firm…

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Free Trade and Fair Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 January 1886 · page 4

New York, December 13.—The Sun's London special says:—The question of free trade versus fair trade is being brought prominently to the front by the champions of both systems. The Cobden Club has awakened to the alarming…

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The Indo-colonial Exhibition. London, Jan. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1886 · page 8

Sir Arthur Blyth, Agent-General for South Australia, has deferred the business of arranging the South Australian exhibits at the Indo-Colonial Exhibition pending the…

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N.S.W. Agricultural Society

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 January 1886 · page 17

Mr. "Walter Bradley, Mr. J. do V. Lamb, and Mr. F. "Webster (secretary), waited on the Mayor, Mr. John Young, to urge him to ask Parliament to give the council power to lease its land at…

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Scientific Exhibition

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 January 1886 · page 120
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THE Engineering Association of New South Wales has determined to hold, in August next, a scientific and mechanical exhibition similar to that held in 1883. From the prospectus which has been issued, we learn…

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Indo-Colonical Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 January 1886 · page 11

LONDON, January 7.—Sir Philio Cunliffe Owen, secretary of, the Colonial and Indian Exhibition Commission, has complained to tho Prince of Wales in reference to the neglect, of New South…

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