The Moorefield management are in the field with the programme for the May meeting to be held on the 15th proximo, and owners and trainers are reminded that entries for the half-dozen events ...
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Article : 2,001 wordsLast night a public meeting was held in the Leich[?] hardt Town Hall in furtherance of the movement for the construction of a new bridge to Glebe Island. The Mayor of Leichhardt (Alderman R. B. Cropley, ...
Article : 462 wordsThere is one aspect of the Queen's great reign (remarks the London Spectator) to which we think sufficient attention has not been given. At all events the greater portion of it, all that has clapsed since ...
Article : 1,730 wordsAn executive meeting of the league was held last night with a view of determining whether a race meeting should be held on 22nd and 26th June. The secretary explained that he had waited on the ...
Article : 234 wordsThe following entries have been received for the leading events in connection with the annual races to be run on 25th and 28th May:— Central Australian Handicap, 1 mile and a furlong.— ...
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Article : 219 wordsAt the last meeting of the Cyclists' Union a letter was received from the Waratall Rovers' Cycling Club asking for affiliation with the union. The request was una[?]ously granted, and the names of ...
Article : 84 wordsSir,—We have now for a considerable time been accustomed to the effective but peculiar humour of the Taxation Commissioners. Perhaps, however, even they have never equalled the delighful ...
Article : 740 wordsIt was decided last night by the executive of the league to hold a road race on the 29th May over a 28-mile course from Mauly to Church Point. Pittwater, and back, the prizes being £15, £8, £5, £3. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe following are the weights for the principal handicap of the Q.T.C. May meeting:— May Day Cup.—Avenue, 9st 2lb; Tridentate, 9st; Checkmate, 8st 11lb; Zingara, 8st 11lb; Orange Skin, 8st ...
Article : 56 wordsAlmost the whole of the team chosen for practice for the intercolonial match with Victoria, which is to start next Saturday, put in an appearance on the Sydney's Club courts on Saturday last, in spite of the ...
Article : 400 wordsThe members of the above institute met again for the transaction of business at the School of Arts yesterday. At the morning session the following papers were read and discussed:—"Notes on a dam at ...
Article : 392 wordsThe usual monthly meeting of the N.S.W. Cricket Association was held last night at the Oxford Hotel. Mr. R. Teece occupied the chair. There was a large attendance. A motion, proposing to voto £50 to the ...
Article : 721 wordsA meeting of the V.B.C. committee to-day carried a resolution by a large majority strongly supporting the principie of the totalisator, and undertook to use its best efforts to secure the introduction of the ...
Article : 74 wordsNeckersgat, the famous thoroughbred sire, by Talk o' the Hill from Miss Giraffe (imp.), was found dead in his box at Morphettville on Monday morning. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 188 wordsDepartures: Rio, schooner, for Sydney, from Napier; Margaret Galbraith, ship, from Wellington, for London. (For Continuation of Shipping ses Page 6.) ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 544 wordsThe eighth annual meeting of the Darlinghurst Harriers was held last night at the New South Wales Amateur Sports Club, Rowe-street, and was attended by a large number of members. The chair ...
Article : 811 wordsSir,—Mr. Cannaway ends his letter on the subject of income tax in your issue of Friday last by saying, "The right to resist oppression is one of the dearest of our political rights, and Parliament has shown ...
Article : 1,035 wordsA return match between the Western [?] and [?] North Sydney clubs was played on the North Sydney Oval yesterday afternoon, and was again witnessed by a large number of interested spectators, with whom the game has ...
Article : 241 wordsLast evening Mr. J. R. Dacey, M.L.A., addressed a meeting of the electors of Botany in the Alexandria Town Hall. There was a large gathering, presided over by Alderman Banner. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 525 wordsSir,—With reference to the second grade match Paddington v. North Sydney, which took place on the University Oval last Saturday, I desire to place before you the following facts:—The umpires were ...
Article : 310 wordsThe R.M.S. Gothic left Rio on the 24th homewards from New Zealand. The R.M.S. Oroya yesterday arrived from London at the Semaphore. ...
Article : 51 wordsIf there is one spot on earth (says the London Daily Chronicle) where the entrance of a women is rigidly forbidden, it is the monastery of La Grande Chartreuse, where the white monks live their life of ...
Article : 456 wordsThe Tekapo arrived at Launceston on Monday morning, and leaves Devonport on Friday. The Oonah arrived at Hobart on Saturday evening, and leaves that port this (Tuesday) evening, for Sydney. The Rakanca left Timaru ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Westralia is in Melbourne, and leaves for Sydney on Saturday, 1st May, at noon. The Burrumbeet leaves for Newcastle to-day, and hence for Melbourne on Friday, 30th instant. The Tasmania is at Duncdin, and leaves on ...
Article : 161 wordsIn the Ashfield Hall last evening a public meeting, presided over by the Mayor (Alderman J. Upward), was addressed by Mr. Thomas Bavister, M.L.A. Mr. Bavister, who was well received, said the last ...
Article : 310 wordsA meeting of the branch committee was [?] last night at the league rooms, Mr. J. Williams in the chair. Sanction was granted to races to be run at the Vegetable Creek Athletie Association sports, to ...
Article : 299 wordsMr. A. M. Bagot, manager of the new steam service between Sydney and Newcastle, writes:—The Balmain, Captain R. Magrath, which lately inaugurated a new service between Sydney and Newcastle and the Hunter River ...
Article : 110 wordsWhen daffodils begin to peer, Why, then comes in the sweet o'the year. And, in spite of March winds and frosty nights, the sweet o' the year (says the Westminster Gazette of ...
Article : 252 wordsThe adjourned meeting of the Petersham Football Club, which lapsed on Thursday evening last on account of the inclemency of the westher, will be held at the Town Hall, Petersham, to-night. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe following horses have, in consequence of winning on Saturday, been rehandicapped by Mr. Hughes for events in connection with the Automa Meeting of the South Australian Jockey Club:—Hurdles: U. Z., 10st 91b. Goodwood ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 299 wordsYesterday the members of the Queensland crew arrived in Sydney in charge of Mr. Colcough, the coach, by the Aramse, on their way to Melbourne. They are a fine lot of young fellows, all new to ...
Article : 304 wordsThe Thermopylee arrived at Natal on the 23rd. She leftSydney on 26th March, Melbourne on 1st April, and Albany on 7th April. The Damarcus left London on Saturday last for Sydney, via Capetown and Melbourne. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 27 Apr 1897, Page 6
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