This morning there was a moderate attendance of the trades at Darling Harbour sales. Small Quantities of wood and forage were forwarded. Not much activity existed for forage, owing to the supply to hand being more or less ...
Article : 617 wordsThe attendance at Randwick yesterday did not number more than 6000 persons—a fair gathering for an off-day, especially when it is taken into consideration that the prospects of favourable weather for racing were anything but ...
Article : 1,611 wordsThe Grand Open Handicap, under the auspices of the N.S.W. Gun Club, took place on Tuesday last, when 67 shooters came to the mark. The light was extremely bad, and the birds being good, made the shooting somewhat ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 667 wordsA good supply of cattle was yarded at the Homebush Fat Stock Sales to-day, viz., [?]85, the quality ranging from fair to very good, prime and heavy, notwithstanding that no sales have taken place for a week, the market was unaltered, best beef ...
Article : 1,207 wordsAt the gettling for the Easter Meeting of the Wallsend Jockey Club £672 was paid in prizes. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 242 wordsSir,—In an article entitled "The Haunts of the Poor," and signed "Outis," which appears in your paper this morning, I notice that it is stated, "It may appear strange to philanthropists and others that there are no lodging ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 236 wordsSecretaries of football clubs can forward applications for the use of the ground at Rushculter Bay Park to the secretary, Mr. V. Cohen, Box 39, G.P.O. The trustees will give preference according to priority. ...
Article : 35 wordsA meeting will be held on Wednesday night next, at Levy and Scott's rooms, for the purpose of froming an amateur athletic association. ...
Article : 24 wordsA meeting of the Baseball Association of New South Wales was held on Thursday night, at the Oxford Hotel. Mr. Consul Griffin occupied the chair, there being nine other members present. It was decided, as the old club ...
Article : 179 wordsThe coursing season was opened by the Ballarat Club to-day at the Ercildoune Plumpton. The weather was fair, but slight showers fell. The attendance was small. The hares were in grand racing form, and the ground was ...
Article : 205 wordsA good supply of fish was received at the Woolloomooloo market for the week ended April 9, including the following:— From the harbour, 52 baskets; Botany, 90; Broken Bay, 145; Jervis Bay, 83; Port Stephens, 87; Narrabeen, 8; Wollongong, ...
Article : 315 wordsA committee meeting of the Sydney Bicycle Club was held at Milthorp's, on Wednesday, to consider some very strange circumstances which had arisen to interfere with the annual race meeting which they have held in August ...
Article : 450 wordsSir,—I will thank you to permit me to say a few words in reply to a letter of Mr. Pulsford's in this day's Herald. Mr. Pulsford's very guarded words in the following sentence have, no doubt, been forced upon him by the strong ...
Article : 656 wordsAt the auction sale of butchers' green sheepskins yesterday there was active competition. Messrs. Mort and Co., Limited, and Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, Limited, report the quittances of catalogues at up to 37d for extra good skins; good, 20d to 27d; ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Launceston Daily Telegraph of April 8 says:—We are informed that the potato crop in the North-Western districts is fairly good this season, but not so heavy as last year, which was an exceptional one as to the yield per acre; ...
Article : 429 wordsSaturday, the 16th instant, will see the commencement of the final match for the Metropolitan Cup and medals, between the rival clubs—the Marylebones and Pyimont Ivanboes. It will be remembered that these two clubs met ...
Article : 653 words[?] His Excellency the Right Honourable Baron Carrington, G.C.M.G. Hon. James White, chairman; Mr. W. B. Walford, hon, treasurer: Messrs. F. C. Griffiths, Andrew Town, Hon. S. A. Stephen, Messrs. J. ...
Article : 2,961 wordsAt a meeting of the executive of the Victorian Cyclists' Union, the case of Bennett's suspension came under consideration. It was decided that Bennett be suspended from riding as an amateur in Victoria for a period of three ...
Article : 92 wordsThe members of the New South Wales Intercolonial Bowling Team were entertained by the Victorian Bowling Association to-day. The team, accompanied by a number of bowlers, were driven in drags to Meader's Tower Hotel, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 15 Apr 1887, Page 9
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