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Shows & fairs, 1888

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Melbourne Exhibition Entries. (By Telegraph.}

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 January 1888 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Saturday was the day on which entries for the Melbourne Exhibition closed, except to the case of France. It is computed that the aggregate space which will eventually…

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Australian. Victoria. The Melbourne Centennial Exhibition

The Australian Star · Monday 2 January 1888 · page 5

MELBOURNE, This Day.--Saturday was the last day for receiving applications for space in the Centennial Exhibition, except from France. The number sent in is not…

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The Kiama Agricultural Show

The Australian Star · Monday 2 January 1888 · page 8

THE Kiama Agricultural Society will held their second exhibition on their new show grounds on the 8th and 9th of February. The local residents are working most…

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Stereoscope Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 January 1888 · page 6

An entertainment, called a Grand Stereoscope Exhibition of the World is now in full swing at Temple-court, Elizabeth-street. This exhibition contains a number of well-executed and very artistic views of the landscapes,…

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AMUSEMENTS. Pain's Show

The Australian Star · Tuesday 3 January 1888 · page 5

Mr. PAIN gave his last pyrotechnic display in the Demain but night--that is, if the assurances and pleges of Sir Henry Parkes are not elastic like…

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Australian. Victoria. The Melbourne Centennial Exhibition

The Australian Star · Tuesday 3 January 1888 · page 6

MELBOURNE, This Day.--Saturday was the last day for receiving applications for space in the Centennial Exhibition, except from France. The number sent in is not…

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Burning of Barnum's Show

The Australian Star · Tuesday 3 January 1888 · page 3

Many Animals Burned to Death. THE English mails bring details of the burning of the winter quarters of Barnum's Show, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, on 21st…

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Fire at Barnum's Show

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 January 1888 · page 3

The winter quarters of P. T. Barnam's show and menagerie at Bridgeport, Connecticut, were destroyed by fire on Sunday night, November 20. It appears that the first intimation of…

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The Day in the Country. Clarence River Aquatic Carnival

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 January 1888 · page 5

Grafton, Monday.--The great attraction in Grafton to-day was the Clarence River Centen niai Aquatic Carnival at Mountain View, about four miles above Grafton. The river steamers…

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The Academy of Music. There was a very fair company at the Academy of Music

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 January 1888 · page 6

There was a very fair company at me Academy of Music last night, when Maccabe presented a capital programme, In which he Was admirably assisted, by Md[?]le. Minnia. Amongst the songs were "Begon[?], Dull Care," "The…

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[By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Clarence River Centennial Aquatic Carnival. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 January 1888 · page 6

The day broke fine, and from an early hour people commenced to arrive in town, coming in on horseback from all parts of the district. The Colonial Sugar Company's boat Iluka brought up a large number of employees, and the…

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Exhibition Space

The Australian Star · Wednesday 4 January 1888 · page 5

MELBOURNE, This Day.--The Exhibition Commission has granted 106,000ft of space to New South Wales. As many as 1615 applications for an aggregate of 350,000…

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Centennial Agricultural Exhibition

The Australian Star · Wednesday 4 January 1888 · page 7

A MEETING of the Council of the Agricultural Association of New South Wales was held yesterday afternoon at the rooms of the association, Hunter and Castlereagh…

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Meetings. Centennial Agricultural Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1888 · page 5

A meeting of the council of the Agricultural Association of New South Wales was held yesterday afternoon at the rooms of the association, Hunter and Castlereagh streets, in connection with the forthcoming intercolonial Centennial…

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The Celebration of the Centenary. the Intercolonial Exhibition

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1888 · page 4

The council of the Agricultural Association of N.S.W met yesterday afternoon still further to consider arrangements for the Centennial Intercolonial Exhibition, there being present…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Agricultural Society of New South Wales

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1888 · page 7

ALl those who are interested will do well to bear in mind that entries for the Great Centennial Exhibition close on Saturday next, the 7th inst., except trotting races, entries for…

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The Melbourne Centennial Exhibition

The Australian Star · Thursday 5 January 1888 · page 6

MELBOURNE, This Day.--M. Lavater, the secretary of the Centennial Exhibition, is most enthusiastic about it, and says that it will eclipse the last exhibition by a long…

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The Melbourne Centennial Exhibition

The Australian Star · Thursday 5 January 1888 · page 5

MELBOURNE, This Day.--The Commissioners of the Melbourne Exhibition have selected 150,000 feet of floor space for New South Wales, and have allotted the colony…

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The Victorian Juvenile Exhibition

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1888 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Government have consented to patronise the Juvenile Exhibition, which opens on March 26,…

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The Melbourne Centennial Exhibition. London, Jan. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1888 · page 7

Fourteen hundred British and foreign exhibitors have sent in applications for space at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition…

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