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Shows & fairs, 1886

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The Anniversary Dat Exhibition

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 23 January 1886 · page 8

NEXT Tuesday’s doings have or will have significance much greater than many are disposed to give them. We have urged this before, and we…

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The Art Society's Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 January 1886 · page 14
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

On Monday, 18th instant, the Art Society of New South Wales threw open to the public their annual exhibition of pictures in "black and white." The society is to be complimented on the hanging of the…

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The Colonial and Indian Exhibition

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1886 · page 172

THE Colonial and Indian Exhibition Commission met on Tuesday, and received reports from several committees. The shipment of exhibits is proceeding satisfactorily, and it appears that the representation of the…

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Dapto Show. (From Our Reporter.) Dapto

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 January 1886 · page 13

The Dapto Agricultural and Horticultural Society's nineteenth annual show opened to-day. The weather is all that can be desired. The country looks splendid over hill and dale. It is as…

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Tee Colonial and Indian Exhibition. Shipment of Exhibits to London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1886 · page 6

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Valetta, which left Sydney on Friday afternoon for England, took with her the eighth weekly shipment of New South Wales' exhibits for the forthcoming Colonial and Indian…

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The Colonial and Indian Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1886 · page 8

As there have been a large number of additional appointments to the commission which is to act on behalf of New South Wales in England in respect to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, we publish the following as a…

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Indo-Colonial Exhibition

Evening News · Thursday 28 January 1886 · page 6

LONDON, January 26.—Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, and Sir Daniel Cooper have been appointed acting commissioners for New South Wales at the forthcoming…

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The Indo-colonial Exhibition. London, Jan. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 January 1886 · page 10

Sir Saul Samuel and Sir Daniel Cooper have been appointed acting commissioners for New South Wales at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition…

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Exhibits for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. Work From the Government Printing Office

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 January 1886 · page 4

There has been recently completed in the Government Printing Department a very fine collection of exhibits representing the various productions, and illustrating the different branches of labour in that office. The exhibits…

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Indo-Colonial Exhibition. Exhibits From Government Printing Office

Evening News · Friday 29 January 1886 · page 6

An extensive and valuable collection of exhibits for the Indo-Colooial Exhibition has bees prepared by Mr. Richards, Government printer. The exhibits convey a favorable idea of the…

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Colonial and Indian Exhibition Commission. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 January 1886 · page 7

Sir,--When is this farce of adding names to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition to cease ? There are already upwards of 100 commissioners, and I see five or six additional names were…

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Somebody Got More Than a Fair Show

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1886 · page 6

“I see,” said she, looking up from the paper, “that there were 20,000,000 buttons made in this country last year.” “Indeed!” he replied, “I wonder what they…

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Indo-Colonial Exhibition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 January 1886 · page 9

Following is a correct list of the London portion of the N.S.W. Commission for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition:—The Earl of Rosobery, president; Sir Daniel Cooper, vice-president; R. P. Abbott, M.L.c.,…

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The Exhibition’s Lessons

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1886 · page 8

EXPERIENCE has always been admitted to be one of the best of teachers, and despite all success in other respects the recent display in the…

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Canary Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1886 · page 245

The third annual exhibition, under the auspices of the New South Wales Canary Society, will be held in the Temperance Hall, on Tuesday, April 13, and two following days. It will be under the patronage of his…

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Show at Parramatta

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 January 1886 · page 22

The Central Cumberland Agricultural Association held its first meeting on Tuesday, and notwithstanding it being high holiday, the show was not bad. The soil of Central Cumberland grew the first farming…

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Central Cumberland Agricultural and Horticultural Association. First Annual Exhibition. Second Day—wednesday, January 27

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1886 · page 4

THE attendance on the second day was, as might have been expected, nothing at all equal to that of Tuesday, but there were sufficient present to show that an abiding interest has…

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Indo-Colonial Exhibition

Evening News · Monday 1 February 1886 · page 6

LONDON, January 29.—Mr. James Thomson, secretary to the Victorian Commission of the Indo-Colonial Exhibition, has arrived in London…

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Accident to the S.s. Fair Light

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 February 1886 · page 5

An accident which occasioned considerable annoyance to some of the residents of Manly occurred on Friday evening to the P.J.S.S. Company's paddle- steamer Fairlight. It seems that…

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