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  2. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. OPENING OF THE METROPOLITAN INTERCOLONIAL EXHIBITION.

    YESTERDAY bright and auspicious weather ushered in this long anticipated ovent. It would really seem as if the elements had been teasing the thousands who have, during the past five or six days, speculated so ...

    Article : 7,164 words
  3. NON-AGRICUTURAL.

    The first work of Art that meets the eyes of teh visitor on entering the Exhibition Building, is a statue of Cpatain Co[?] appropriately placed opposite the main entrance. In the same ante-room are paintings of three successive Governors ...

    Article : 1,813 words
  4. SECTION VII.—WOOL.

    The staple industry of Australia is represented in a compact form at the north-west angle of the have, in an octagon glass table, surmounted by a cone of glass divided into four, and crowned by a golden f[?]ece suspended in a circle. In the ...

    Article : 502 words
  5. IV.—CLOTHING, &c.

    Under this head are included the fabries of which clothing is made Here Sydney is great. Farmer and Co. have forced themselves on public attention—partly by the disagreeable and ill-devised yellow roof of their pavillon, which sticks up in ...

    Article : 334 words
  6. SECTION III.—SHEEP.

    In ten sheep classes there were twenty-nine entries, the number at the last show having been forty-two entries in twelve: and this shows pretty clearly that sheepowners would rather give up all idea of exhibiting than be hampered by the ...

    Article : 406 words
  7. SECTION V.—PRODUCTS, RAW AND MANUFACTURED, OF MINING INDUSTRY, FORESTRY, &c.

    The east gallery contains some excellent cases of minerals exhibited by S. Samuel. Esq., Dr. Thomson, the Rev. W. B. Clarke, and others Here is copper in all its varieties of carbonates and sulphat, black oxide, red oxide, and peacock ...

    Article : 360 words
  8. SECTION VIII.—WINE.

    The awards in this section were published some weeks' back. ...

    Article : 13 words
  9. SECTION IX.—SUGARS.

    The first prize was awarded to Mr. J. Peck, a medal being recommended for the superiority of his exhibit; Messrs. Tooth and Cran receiving the second prize. ...

    Article : 31 words
  10. SECTION X.—FARM PRODUCE.

    No awards in this section have yet been made public. ...

    Article : 15 words
  11. SECTION XI.—HORTICULTURAL—VIZ., VEGETABLES, FRUITS, AND FLOWERS.

    In the interior of the building the Flora of Australasia were well represented side by side with the glorious productions of the East and West Indies, China, Brazil, Japan, and the Cape. Chinese primroses figured very prominently on the ...

    Article : 932 words
  12. SECTION IV.—PIGS.

    In this section there were 26 exhibits, but, as the judges' awards have not been delivered, we defer notice of them. ...

    Article : 25 words
  13. SECTION V.—POULTRY.

    The entries in this class are more numerous than in any oter, and this will satisfactorily account for only a portion of the exhibits being judged in time for the awards to be announced yesterday. Of 313 exhibits in sixty-nine sections ...

    Article : 433 words
  14. VI.—APPARATUS USED IN COMMON ARTS.

    In this section are some of the most powerful and costly, as well as the most indispensable articles of manufacture. At the head stand the steam-engines. In the shed near the northern end of the park, opposite Chalmers's Church, are ...

    Article : 685 words
  15. SECTION II.—THE CATTLE.

    In the cattle section, numbering forty-one classes, there were the large number of 229 entries, against 103 in twentyseven sections last show, and all persons interested in cattle breeding and grazing must have been satisfied with the ...

    Article : 1,893 words
  16. SECTION VI.—DOGS.

    This section of the Exhibition was remarkable for the number of its exhibits, and the care that had evidently been taken to show a large number of the best bred s[?]ccimens. The nonsporting animals exhibited had a slight preponderance, and in ...

    Article : 1,392 words
  17. SECTION II.—APPARATUS OF LIBERAL ARTS.

    Under this head are seventy-nine classes. First, the most common indispendable material of the liberal arts—paper— is exhibited by the Liverpool Paper Company, in the gallery on the left hand after entering from the south. In the ...

    Article : 248 words
  18. SECTION VII.—FOOD.

    No award has been published In this section. MOTTO for the reprieved—"No noose is good news." WHY is a drunkard like a bad account?—Because he generallly over-balances. ...

    Article : 293 words
  19. SECTION III.—FURNITURE AND OTHER OBJECTS FOR THE USE OF DWELLINGS.

    This section is largely supplied. And the use of the various specics of wood growing in these colonies in furniture presents one of the most interesting branches of colonial industry. In the main building, on the left hand of the ...

    Article : 999 words
  20. SECTION XII.—MANURES.

    Of the seven exhibits none have been yet declared prize takers. ...

    Article : 22 words
  21. SECTION XIII.—IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINERY.

    As a New South Wales exhibition, this section can hardly be classed with other portions of the Exhibition, the old colony having made but a small show; and although Melbourne has sent many splendid implements, such a large ...

    Article : 342 words
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