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Shows & fairs, 1889

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Sydney Technical College and the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 February 1889 · page 9

Sir,—It is generally understood that the exhibits of the Sydney Technical College at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition are to be awarded a medal and certificate as a collective exhibit, no notice whatever being…

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The Berry Agricultural Show. [By Telegraph.] (From a Correspondent.) Berry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 February 1889 · page 12

The attendance at the show to-day numbered fully 1000. Great interest was taken in the riding and jumping contests. The experiment of three days' exhibition has proved successful; £125 was taken at…

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The Paris Exhibition

Evening News · Monday 18 February 1889 · page 5

LONDON, February 15.—New South Wales having declined the site offered to her in the Trocadero in connection with the Paris Exhibition, the same has been obtained by Victoria…

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The Intended Aeronautic Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1889 · page 6

The exhibition which Professor Baldwin, the aeronaut, was to have given on Saturday at the Carrington Grounds, did not take place owing to the strong easterly wind which was blowing during the afternoon. As…

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Paris Exhibition. London, February 16

The Australian Star · Monday 18 February 1889 · page 5

The management of the Paris Exhibition has granted 3000ft of extra space in the Trocadera Gardens for Victorian exhibits…

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Victoria and the Paris Exhibition

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 February 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.--Sir Graham Berry, Agent-General for Victoria, has secured 8000ft. of extra space in the Trocadero for Victoria at the forthcoming Paris…

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The Paris Exhibition. London, Feb. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1889 · page 5

New South Wales having declined a site in the Trocadero Gardens, at the Paris Exhibition, for the display of her exhibits, Victoria has secured the same. That…

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Paris Exhibition

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 February 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.--A deputation from the executive committee of the Paris Exhibition waited upon M. Carnot, the President of the French Rupublic, on Taturpay, and…

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The Dunedin Exhibition

The Australian Star · Tuesday 19 February 1889 · page 6

THE Premier has received from the promoters some communications with regard to the exhibition which it is proposed to hold in Dunedin this year. The matter…

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The Dunedin Exhibition

The Australian Star · Tuesday 19 February 1889 · page 5

ADELAIDE, This Day. -- South Australia is not to be officially represented at the Dunedin exhibition…

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Dunedin Exhibition. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 February 1889 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Monday.--The Government have decided that South Australia shall not be officially represented at the exhibition to be held as Dunedin, New Zealand…

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Melbourne Exhibition Awards. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 February 1889 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday,--The following New south Wales awards in connection with the Exhibition were announced to-day:-- Lades' wearing Apparel. &c: Miss Shaw and…

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Cost of the Melbourne Exhibition

Evening News · Tuesday 19 February 1889 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—At the hundredth meeting of the Exhibition executive, on Monday, a statement was made by the secretary, Mr. G. T. A. Lavater, that the amount of money expended…

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Melbourne Exhibition Awards. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1889 · page 8

A number of reports of juries were approved at to-day's meeting of the Exhibition Commissioners. Amongst them are the following:— Education and Education Appliances.—First order…

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Balloonist Baldwin. the American Did Not Show Up

Evening News · Tuesday 19 February 1889 · page 5

It is seldom the Sydney public are so greatly disappointed as they have been twice within the past seventy-two hours. On Saturday, an enormous crowd assembled around the Carrington…

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Dunedin Exhibition. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 February 1889 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--Although this colony will not be officially represented at the Dunedin Exhibition, it Is not improbable that some of the largest local manufacturers will send…

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Adelaide and the New Zealand Exhibition. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1889 · page 7

The decision of the Government not to be officially represented at the Dunedin Exhibition was prompted by various reasons. They recognise that the State has of late spent excessive sums in…

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Mitchell and Kilrain. The Authorities at Chicago Stop Their Sparring Exhibition. Chicago, Ill., Dec. 20 1889

Referee · Wednesday 20 February 1889 · page 3

Chief of Police Hubbard said something this morning that may cause professional sluggers to have a care, and which will no doubt make Chicago's peace-loving citizens…

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Port Macquarie A. and H. Show

Evening News · Thursday 21 February 1889 · page 5

PORT MACQUARIE, Wednesday.—The fifth annual exhibition of the Port Macquarie and Hastings River Agricultural and Horticultural Society opened this morning. The number of…

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Dunedin Exhibition

Evening News · Thursday 21 February 1889 · page 8

It was decided by the Ministers in Cabinet last night that the colony of New South Wales should not take part in the exhibition to be held at Dunedin (N.Z.) towards the end of the present…

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