The second day's racing took place to-day. It rained all day very heavily. It is still pouring, and no sign of clearing. The attendance was large, as the morning looked bright. Hurdle Race.—Kingfisher baulked at the second ...
Article : 113 wordsIn compliance with a requisition, the Mayor has convened a public meeting for Wednesday night, to consider the action of the Council in deciding to erect municipal gas works in opposition to the advice of the ...
Article : 61 wordsWOOL.—The auctioneers' catalogues this week comprised about £5000 bales of wool, about 1750 selling under the hammer. As noted for some weeks past, the better descriptions of wool have commanded most attention from ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 13 wordsSir William Stawell, Chief Justice of Victoria, paid a short visit to Orange yesterday, and was conducted over the town by his Worship the Mayor and a few other gentlemen. The party visited the School of Arts, and ...
Article : 81 wordsThe following have been booked:- Sydney to Melbourne, January 13: Miss Hoskisson, Mr. and Mrs. Wood. Misses Wood (3), Mr. Wood and child, Mr. and Mrs. Windeyer, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, Mr. and ...
Article : 194 wordsReports from all parts of the district say that good rain has fallen. Thousands of sheep and other stock were on the point of starting for water, and now remain at home. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 wordsLast night a meeting of citizens was held in the Church of England schoolroom, North Goulburn, for the purpose of establishing a temperance society in connection with that church. Bishop Thomas ...
Article : 175 wordsTo-night, at "a Theatre Royal, will be produced, for the first time in Sydney, T. W. Robertson's society drama, "Ours." The period on which this brilliant comedy chiefly dwells is the Crimean war; and though the immediate ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 wordsThe weather continues very dry, and grass and water are both very scarce. Strong, cool winds have been blowing from the east for the last week. Large quantities of stock are travelling to the Tumut ...
Article : 41 wordsMessrs. Richardson and Wrench sold by auction and private contract, at their rooms, Pitt-street, during the week, the follow[?] ing properties:—Hill Crest, a family residence, fronting Victoria-street, and Chester-place, Norwood-hill, Petersham, £2600—Mr. ...
Article : 766 wordsThe collections at the Custom House for 1880 amounted to £21,247 15s. 4d., being £1453 in excess of the receipts for 1879. The total imports last year were £227,046, against £210,563 in the previous year. ...
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Advertising : 865 wordsSteady rain fell on Monday and Tuesday, the quantity registered being two inches. Reports from all parts give a rainfall of from two to four inches. The roads are very heavy, and the mails are arriving ...
Article : 44 wordsThe International Regatta on the Thames was continued on November 19. There were plenty of spectators both on the steamboats and the towing-path when the first heat started, and they were rewarded by as good a race as it was ...
Article : 1,441 wordsThe Toowoomba election to-day has resulted in favour of Mr. Aland, who received 632 votes against Mr. Taylor's 444; majority, 188. Mr. Cooper, the Attorney-General, has been elected ...
Article : 76 wordsA public meeting of persons interested in the resuscitation of the Horticultural Society of New South Wales was held last evening in the college hall of the School of Arts. About fifty gentlemen and one or two ladies were present, ...
Article : 1,188 wordsThe Governor and Lady Normanby, with the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere visited the Town Hall this morning. The Ministerial party arrived at Belfast to-day, ...
Article : 537 wordsMR. GEORGE KISS.—The market has been vacillating considerably since last report—one day they realized first-class prices, and the next would be very dull; but, on the whole, fair prices have been obtained, especially when direct from the breeders. Mr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 332 wordsMessrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin's sale of Mr. Walter Lamb's cattle and horses at Woodstock, on Wednesday, although it brought forth no large prices, was fairly successful. The catalogue was nearly cleared, Mr. Lamb ...
Article : 591 wordsThe late Mr. H. K. Hughes has left a legacy to the Orphan Home. The war steamer Miranda, from England to Sydney to relieve the Danae, arrived at the Semaphore this ...
Article : 132 wordsThe sentence of death upon the Chatham Islands murderer has been commuted to life imprisonment. The barque Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, from Melbourne to London, put into the Bluff, to repair pumps. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 15 Jan 1881, Page 6
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