The programme has been issued of the Orange Spring-hill Plonghing Matches on the 9th September, Prizes are offered in four classes, and the highest prizes amount to ten guineas. A special prize will ...
Article : 141 wordsThe second performance of "The Turn of the Tide" was an unqualified success. The scenery was as beautiful as ever, and, seen from another part of the theatre, disclosed charms not realised on Saturday. The audience was very ...
Article : 1,458 wordsAfter a prolonged stay in Victoria and South Australia, Mr. Richard Anthony Proctor, one of the foremost scientists and most distinguished astronomers of the age, has come to deliver in Sydney a course of those splendid lectures which ...
Article : 1,642 wordsAt the coursing matches to-day, Rounsevell's Rosy Fawn won the Stormont Plate, with the Hon. W. J. Clarke's Castor as runner up. E. Fanning's Factory Girl beat Messrs. Hart, Brother's Housewife, and won the ...
Article : 109 wordsThe address of the Bishop and clergy of the diocese of Sydney to the Bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales, was presented yesterday afternoon, in the presence of a number of ladies and gentlemen, at the Church Society's ...
Article : 1,686 wordsFrom files of Otago and other papers to the 5th Au[?] we take the following news:— A shock of earthquake was felt in various parts of New Zealand on the 4th instant. ...
Article : 824 wordsLane and party have brought to town 75½ oz. of gold, the result of crushing from their claim at Galley Swamp. The contractor for the new court-house made a start ...
Article : 46 wordsThe weather is fine, and a good season is anticipated. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 wordsThe foundation stone of the new Town-hall was laid this afternoon by Mr. Thomas Clarke, Mayor of Mudgee, in the presence of 500 people, including many of the principal residents of the district. A lunoh was ...
Article : 134 wordsThe weather is splendid, and the crops and grass are looking very well. ...
Article : 17 wordsGreat dissatisfaction is expressed with the Railway Department for the unjust manner in which they are acting in reference to the carriage of goods to Junee, for Temora. The course followed is both detrimental ...
Article : 123 wordsA long-arranged match for £100, between Dwyer's (Tamworth) Maid of Erin and Smith's (Girley) Battleaxe, distance half-a-mile, came off to-day, on the race[?] course, Battleaxe being the winner by two lengths. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe general settling over the late Tattersall's meeting took place, at Tattersall's, last evening, when the following sums were paid over to the winners:—Mr. T. Ivory, £114; Mr. S. Harding, £79; Mr. Brennan, £78; Mr. J. Cook, ...
Article : 395 wordsA very largely attended meeting of free selectors of this district was held here on Saturday last, when it was decided to send a representative to the approaching conference in conjunction with the selectors of the ...
Article : 80 wordsJohnny Campbell, an aboriginal, was executed this morning in Brisbane gaol. He appeared to feel his position keenly. He was attended by the Church of England minister of the gaol. ...
Article : 66 wordsPapers have been received from Cape Town to the 20th July, from which the following extracts are taken:— In the Cape Parliament July 10, affairs in Basutoland were referred to. The Colonial Secretary read the ...
Article : 469 wordsAt mass, at Geelong, yesterday, Archdeacon Slattery commanded the Roman Catholics of the district to vote for Mr. Andrews as against Mr. Berry, Mr. Andrewa having promised to move for the appointment of a ...
Article : 456 wordsWA[?]ATAH V. ALL-COMERS.—A match under the rules of the New South Wales Football Association took place last Saturday afternoon between the Waratana and a team of All-comers, composed principally of the Sydney and ...
Article : 550 wordsFrom papers to the 30th July, we learn that the Legislative Council of Western Australia was opened on the 19th July, by the Governor, Sir Harry Ord. Sir Luke Leake was elected Speaker, and Sir T. C. Campbell, Chairman of ...
Article : 654 wordsAt Brunker and Wolfe's yards, at Campbell's Hill, to-day, there were 350 sheep, 283 cattle, 78 lambs, and 109 pigs forward. Best bullocks brought £5; sheep, 8s 6d to 10s 9d; lambs, 7s 9d to 9s 9d; and pigs, 3s 6d to 34s 6d. ...
Article : 57 wordsAt Nathan Cohen, and Co.'s regular weekly auction sales of fat stock to-day, the market was firm. They sold Christian's bullocks (light) at £3 7s to £[?] 17s; cows, £2 6s to £2 17s: calves, 10s to 20s; Ryan's lambs (middling), 6s 6d; Wilson's wethers, 10s 6d. ...
Article : 58 wordsSir,—If you will grant me a small space in your valuable journal, I will add a line or two to that of "J. S.," in Friday's issue. Whilst he is so watchful after the interests of the ...
Article : 430 wordsFat Cattle.—The market was supplied with 1850 head, about 800 of which arrived from Queensland and New South Wales, the remainder from the Upper Murray and Gippsland, the quality being midd[?]ng to good; prime pens scarce. Sales opened at late ...
Article : 465 wordsThe fifty-fourth annual general meeting of the company was held at Edinburgh on Tuesday the 20th April, 1880, Mr. H. Maxwell Inglis, P.C.S., in the chair. The following results are communicated in the report by the ...
Article : 355 wordsThe fine weather on Saturday afternoon last was availed of by a large number of members of the "Alpha Frisquette Club," and a spirited game entered into, under the captaincy of Messrs. F. Stapleton and E. Selfe. The fielding in ...
Article : 323 wordsMr. G. L. Bowyer has been appointed secretary to the House for Incurables. At the Police Court, to-day, Frederick Willis, landlord of the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, was fined £20 ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 17 Aug 1880, Page 6
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