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Shows & fairs, 1888

2,003 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 101

Melboune Exhibition. (Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 May 1888 · page 5

MELBOURNE, [?]esday.--The first prize for the musical setting of the Centennial Exhibition Cantata has beea warded to Mr. H. J. King, late of Sandhur and now of Sydney, and the…

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The Melbourne Exhibition Executive, Commission. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 May 1888 · page 10

The Executive Commission of the Exhibition met to-day, the Chief Justice presiding. Nearly three hours were spent in discussing the difficulty in reference to the appointment of the executive vice-president. It…

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Cable News. the Melbourne Exhibition

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 May 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The British Collection of pictures for the Melbourne Exhibition will be shipped in the [?].M.S. Some on the 17th inst…

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The English Pictures for the Melbourne Exhibition. London, May 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 May 1888 · page 7

The English collection of pictures for exhibition at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition will be shipped by the R.M.S. Rome on the 17th instant. Mr. Goodman, the curator of…

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Meetings. the Agricultural Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 May 1888 · page 5

A special general meeting of the members of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales was held yesterday afternoon in the large hall Tattersall's buildings, Hunterstreet. The chairman of the society. Mr. W. W…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. a Collection of Ancient Armor

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 May 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Night.--Sir Graham Berry, the Agent-General for Victoria, is obtaining from the Marquis of Salisbury a collection of ancient arms and armor for…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. Exhibits of Warlike Material. the Value of the British Art Collection. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, May 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 May 1888 · page 8

An excellent exhibit of warlike implements and material is being collected for the Melbourne Exhibition. The collection will not reach Melbourne till October…

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 May 1888 · page 7

A special general meeting of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales was held at Tattersall's-buildings, Hunter-street, on Thursday afternoon, for the purpose of confirming the…

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The Melbourne Exhibition

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 May 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday Night.--The allotting of space to British exhibitors at the Melbourne Exhibition is at a standstill, as up to the present the Exhibition authorities in…

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The Exhibition Diploma

The Australian Star · Saturday 5 May 1888 · page 6

WE have received from Mr. H. B. Hardt, the secretary of the Phillip-Stephan Photolithographic and Typographic Process Company, a copy of the commemorative diploma…

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Show Shops

Sydney Punch · Saturday 5 May 1888 · page 13

THEATRE ROYAL.--"Princess Ida," at the Theatre Royal, has had to hide her light under the hushel of bad luck, owing to the low-foreheaded intellects of a section of the play-going public. Mr. Gilbert has written over their…

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Mr. Bright on Fair Trade

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 5 May 1888 · page 9

In acknowleding the receipt of a resolution in favour of retaliatory tariff, passed at a recent fair trade meeting in Birmingham, the right Hon. John Bright his replied as…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. London, April 25

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 May 1888 · page 946

A superb collection of loan pictures will be sent out to the Melbourne Exhibition. The paintings are regarded as the finest English are collection over sent abroad. The…

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(Special Messages.) the Melbourne Exhibition. London

The Australian Star · Saturday 5 May 1888 · page 6

The collection of pictures to be sent to the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition is stated to be the finest that has ever left the country for any international…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. the Allotment of Space Stopped. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, May 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 May 1888 · page 14

The allotment of space at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition to British exhibitors of machinery has been stopped, owing to the absence of information as to the area…

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The Exhibition of Women's Industries

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 May 1888 · page 8

The work of the proposed Exhibition of Women's Industries has within the last week been definitely advanced. The seven ladies who are appointed as delegates for the various departments into which the exhibition…

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Broughton Creek Agricultural Show

The Australian Star · Monday 7 May 1888 · page 6

BROUGHTON, This Day. -- At a meeting of the Broughton Creek Agricultural Society, held yesterday, Mr. John Borsell was elected president, Messrs…

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N.S.W. and the Melbourne Exhibition

The Australian Star · Tuesday 8 May 1888 · page 5

MELBOURNE, This Day.--The Sydney Commissioners yesterday applied for increased space at the Centennial Exhibition, and were told it could not be…

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Melbourne Exhibition. the President Refuses to Withdraw His Resignation. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 May 1888 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The members of the Executive Commission of the Centennial Exhibition to-day waited as a deputation on Chief Justice Higinbotham for the purpose of asking…

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[By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondents.) Hawkesbury Show Handicap Trot. Richmond

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 May 1888 · page 8

Patience, Velocity, Brumby, Nabob, Violetta, Varmint, Creole, Alima, and Yendon have accepted for the Handicap Trot at the Hawkesbury Show; and Nabob, Burwood, Primus, and Velocity for the Malden Trot…

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