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Shows & fairs, 1888

2,003 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 101

The Premier and the Melbourne Exhibition

The Australian Star · Monday 6 August 1888 · page 6

IT is not improbable that Sir Henry Parkes may visit Melbourne during the present Exhibition season. We believe that he has received a very pressing…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. the Parliamentary Banquet. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 August 1888 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Yesterday afternoon brought the first really great crowd to the Centennial Exhibition. The day was cold and showery and during the morning the attendance…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. Sir John Robertson on His Hobby. Melbourne, This Day

The Australian Star · Monday 6 August 1888 · page 6

Exhibits continue to arrive in the New South Wales Court of the Exhibition, and to day the Captain Cook division of the court is blocked with cases and packages…

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Melbourne Exhibition. Grand Banquet to Distinguished Visitors, [By Telegraph.] [?] Our Special [?].) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 August 1888 · page 5

On Saturday security the first important publics caremo[?] [?] with the opening of the C[?] [?] [?]…

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Melbourne Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 August 1888 · page 6

Visitors to Melbourne can have the Sydney Morning Herald sent to them for any number of days or weeks required, by sending orders to the publishing office, Hunter-street, Sydney…

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The Paris Exhibition

The Australian Star · Tuesday 7 August 1888 · page 5
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THE matter of representing the colony at the forthcoming Paris Exhibition has not yet been brought under the notice of the Government. The Premier seems inclined…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 August 1888 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday Night.--Perhaps the most interesting circumstance associated with the Exhibition to-day apart from the brilliant banquet given in the evening by Alderman…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. Special Trains

Evening News · Tuesday 7 August 1888 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The traffic authorities have arranged excursions to and from Sydney, starting at both capitals on Tuesdays, and to and from Melbourne and Adelaide on alternate…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. the Mayoral Banquet

Evening News · Tuesday 7 August 1888 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—"Fanst" was produced at the Opera House, last night, in the presence of Lady Loch, Lady Carrington, Lady Musgrave, Lady Hamilton, Miss Jervois, Mrs. Fairfax, Miss…

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The Melbourne Exhibition. Governors' and Parliamentarians' Banquet. Melbourne, This Day

The Australian Star · Tuesday 7 August 1888 · page 6

The banquet given in the Exhibition Building on Saturday night, by the President of the Council and the Speaker of the Assembly, Sir James MacBain and Mr. M…

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Melbourne Exhibition. the New South Wales Court. the Sydney Morning Herald, Mail, and Echo Exhibits. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Special Reporters.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 August 1888 · page 5

The Sydney Morning Herald, Mail, and Echo collection of exhibits is on exceedingly instructive one, and illustrates in a striking manner the enterprise of the proprietors of those papers, as well as the various phases in the…

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Principal Contents of This Days Paper. the Melbourne Exhibition. Central Criminal Court. Metropolitan Quarter Sessions. City Railway Extension. the English Football Team in Sydney. Sydney University. Raid on a Chinese Gambling Den

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 August 1888 · page 6

LEADERS: THE CONFERENCE OF JUDGES IN MELBOURNE. THE MARITIME DISPUTE…

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Exhibition Festivities

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 August 1888 · page 5

The Parliamentary visitors from the other colonies were entertained at an excursion to Ballarat to-day. The following were present:—Messrs. Dibbs, Woodward, Copeland, Gale, Fletcher, Cameron, Wall, Ball, Lakeman,…

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Melbourne Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 August 1888 · page 6

Visitors to Melbourne can have the Sydney Morning Herald sent to them for any number of days or weeksrequired, by sending orders to the publishing office, Hunterstreet, Sydney…

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Skating Carnival

The Australian Star · Wednesday 8 August 1888 · page 7

THE second carnival of the season was brought off at the Elite Skating Rink last night with what may be at once termed eminently satisfactory results. There…

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The Melbourne Exhibition

The Australian Star · Wednesday 8 August 1888 · page 5

MELBOURNE, This Day.--A large number of distinguished visitors to the exhibition proceed to Sandhurst to-day. The evening closes with a banquet to be given by the…

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More Exhibition Gorging

The Australian Star · Wednesday 8 August 1888 · page 6

MELBOURNE, This Day.--The Opposition members in the Assembly intend banqueting the members of Parliament from the Other colonies at present in Melbourne,…

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Opening the Exhibition with Prayer

The Australian Star · Wednesday 8 August 1888 · page 5

MELBOURNE, This Day.--The presbytery of North Melbourne has carried a resolution expressing its satisfaction that the Exhibition was opened with prayer, but…

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Melbourne Centennial Exhibition. Melbourne, Monday Night

The Australian Star · Wednesday 8 August 1888 · page 3

The work of unpacking and placing goods still goes on. Exhibits continue to arrive. On Friday it seemed as if the New South Wales Court was completed,…

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