If the brightness of the weather of the 1st January be any indication of good fortune, then should the new year be pleasant and prosperous, for brighter or more enjoyable weather than that which was experienced on ...
Article : 374 wordsThe Domain and Botanical Gardens were the scenes of numberless family picnic parties. The rich coating of grass upon the former, and the pleasant shades, of the many umbrageous trees scattered over it, furnishing the ...
Article : 201 wordsThe Penrith Progress Association athletic sports were held on the Progress Association Ground, at Penrith, today, and were the most successful of the kind ever carried out in the district. Fully 1600 people were present, and ...
Article : 388 wordsThe Royal was very well filled on Saturday evening, and an appreciative audience appeared to be thoroughly pleased with Mr. Alfred Maltby's pantomime, with the company, the scenery, and the whole ensemble of the production. ...
Article : 395 wordsAnother great attraction to holiday-makers, and especially to those whose members were chiefly little folk, were the wonders of the Zoo. It is but a few years since the site now occupied by the Zoo was a "rubbish shoot" into which ...
Article : 223 wordsOn Saturday evening Dion Boucicault's Irish drama "Arrah-na-Pogne" was revived for one night only, and with this production the Sheridan season in Sydney has finished for the present. Mr. Sheridan as Shaun ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Circular Quay on Saturday wore a gay holiday appearance. Many of the ships in port were dressed with fiags from stem to stern, and the display of bunting was unusually large. The harbour was alive-with small craft ...
Article : 804 wordsThe nineteenth annual gathering, in connection with the Highland Society, took place on Saturday on the Association Ground, Moore Park. The event is always a popular one, the programme being invariably attractive, and in the ...
Article : 2,745 wordsH.M.S. Diamond, after an extended cruise among the South Sea Islands, arrived in port yesterday evening, mooring in Farm Cove at about haft-past 7. There is not much exciting news to report, although the cruise has ...
Article : 1,437 wordsEvery seat and box in all parts of this theatre was occupied on-Saturday evening, when "Falka" was repeated. The audience was lavish of approval, and throughout the evening testified its satisfaction with the work and the ...
Article : 318 wordsThe Dapto Annivesary Regatta took place yesterday at Kanahooks Point, Lake Illawarra, under the auspices of the local club. The weather was all that could be desired, and the splendid sheet of water seldom appeared to better ...
Article : 304 wordsThe Exhibition Building were a very attractive appearance on Saturday evening, when the Fifth Scottish Regiment gave a grand promenade concert, under the patronage of his Excellency the Governor; Major-General ...
Article : 841 wordsThe thirty-third annual regatta at Newcastle took place to-day, and proved successful in every respect. The weather was splendid, and the harbour presented a brilliant spectacle, being alive with boats and steamers. The wharves ...
Article : 1,071 wordsThe numerous favourite reports along the Illawarra line attracted a large number of people. A number of special trains were run during the day, and although the trains which left the terminus about noon were as usual some what ...
Article : 568 wordsThe fourteenth anniversary of the Sydney Marine Benefit Society was celebrated by a picnic at Clontarf. The members of the society, in regalia, marched at 8.30 a.m.; headed by a band, to the Circular Quay, where several ...
Article : 109 wordsThe steamer Sydney, of the Newcastle Steamship Company, under command of Captain Skinner, left the Limestreet Wharf on New Year's Day, with between 500 and 600 passengers on board, for a trip to the Hawkesbury ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Parramatta River, owing to its picturesque scenery, the splendid picnicing spots along its banks, and the regular and commodious steamboat accommodation, was visited on Saturday by large numbers of holiday-makers. ...
Article : 238 wordsA Scottish National Concert, arranged by Mr. Robert Millen, took place on Saturday evening, at the new Masonic Hall. An excellent programme had been prepared by the promoter, who deserved more liberal patronage than he ...
Article : 386 wordsThe traffic on the railways was very heavy, the trains running on the suburban and Illawarra lines being orowded with passengers. Special trains ran at short intervals from the metropolis to Parramatta, Ryde, Hornsby, Hurstville, ...
Article : 174 wordsA large number of holiday-makers left Sydney for Botany Bay, and the chief places of interest on the margin of the historic sheet of water were largely patronised by well-dressed and orderly picnic parties. The majority of ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 3 Jan 1887, Page 3
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