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  2. SPORTING NOTES.

    The secretary of the Victoria Amateur Turf Club will receive general entries for the Caulfield Cup meeting up to 4 p.m. to-day. The races to be entered for comprise a Selling Race, Two Mile ...

    Article : 78 words
  3. ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

    The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's B.M.S. Australia arrived here yesterday from San Francisco 26th August. The following is a summary of her news:— ...

    Article : 354 words
  4. THE PROPOSED ANNEXATION OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.

    About 700 persons attended the public meeting held in the Alfred Hall on Saturday night with reference to the deportation of French criminals to the islands in the Pacific ...

    Article : 224 words
  5. FLEMINGTON TRAINING NOTES.

    Visitors to the training ground on Saturday morning were fully compensated. for their journey, the work executed being of exceptionally good character. After Creswick had done his ...

    Article : 688 words
  6. CRICKET MEETINGS.

    At a meeting of delegates from clubs, who intend competing for Mr. Charles Clarke's, junr. Cup,, held on Friday evening last, at Keyhoe's Royal Hotel, Gertrude-street, Fitzroy, it was decided that all ...

    Article : 660 words
  7. FRANCE AND THE NEW HEBRIDES.

    The Noumea correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald writes as follows in connection with the proposal of France to annex the New Hebrides:- ...

    Article : 857 words
  8. GEELONG V. CARLTON.

    The above clubs met for the third and last time this season on the Corio cricket ground, Geelong, on Saturday afternoon, in the presence of a large crowd of spectators, a great number of whom journeyed to ...

    Article : 1,019 words
  9. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES MEETINGS.

    The quarterly meeting of the Loyal Columbia Lodge, No. I.O.O.F., was held on Monday last at their lodge room, Oddfellows' Hall, Russell-street; Bro. Thomas West, N.G., ...

    Article : 452 words
  10. THEATRE ROYAL.-JO.

    The popularity of Miss Jennie Lee as an interpreter of the character of Jo in Dickens's Bleak House was tested at the Theatre Royal on Saturday, with the most satisfactory results. ...

    Article : 1,048 words
  11. YACHTING.

    A single handed sailing contest for the Smith trophy took place on Saturday afternoon on the Albert Park Lake. The following boats started from their moorings opposite the pavilion ...

    Article : 156 words
  12. CAULFIELD TRAINING NOTES.

    Daylight was ushered in on Saturday with a bleak northerly wind, the lowering clouds drifting fitfully and with threatening aspect. The disagreeable morning thus presaged was not, ...

    Article : 507 words
  13. AQUATICS.

    Scratch four oar races in connection with the above club were rowed on Saturday afternoon, from Brander's Ferry to Edwards's boat sheds. Messrs. A. B. Templeman and T. W. Thompson acted as starter ...

    Article : 471 words
  14. CASUALTIES.

    Yesterday morning the dead body of a man was discovered floating in the vicinity of the Railway Pier, Williamstown. The deceased, who appeared to be about 30 or 35 years ...

    Article : 357 words
  15. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—PRINCE METHUSALEM.

    A very large audience was assembled in the Princess's Theatre on Saturday evening to witness the first performance in Melbourne of Strauss's comic opera, Prince Methusalem, by ...

    Article : 912 words
  16. SPORTING NOTES FROM ADELAIDE.

    The Norwood football team defeated the Ports on Saturday by 5 goals to 1. The Adelaide Lawn Tennis Club commenced a championship tournament on the Adelaide Oval on ...

    Article : 68 words
  17. NATIVE OUTRAGE IN NEW BRITAIN.

    From Captain Francis, of the schooner Meg Merrilies (says the Fiji Argus of 13th July), we have obtained the following particulars of an outrage which occurred at New Britain on ...

    Article : 615 words
  18. CRICKET.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 968 words
  19. LACROSSE.

    Melbourne v. Collingwood Blues.—This match took place on Saturday, victory resting with the former club, they obtaining 1 goal to their opponents' nil. An appeal for a second goal on behalf of the victors ...

    Article : 220 words
  20. CONTINUOUS BRAKES ON THE VICTORIAN RAILWAYS.

    In the Asesmbly on Thursday evening, Mr. Gillies made a statement explanatory of the working of the Woods and Westinghouse brakes on the Victorian Railways, and said ...

    Article : 414 words
  21. HAY RACES.

    The local race club are adopting the plan of the metropolitan clubs, and will demand a fee of £2 2s. from all bookmakers plying their avocation at the club's October meeting. ...

    Article : 44 words
  22. BOWLING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 327 words
  23. ROWING IN SYDNEY.

    The third contest for the Fowler Cap took place on Saturday, and resulted in an easy win for Brett. The race was confined to members of the Mercantile Rowing Club, the entries being ...

    Article : 130 words
  24. FOOTBALL.

    The last match between the Melbourne and South Melbourne clubs for this season was played on Saturday at the North Fitzroy Cricket ground. The weather was fine, and about 6000 spectators were ...

    Article : 694 words
  25. THE BIJOU THEATRE.—A LIVING STATUE.

    The Majeronis appeared at the Bijou Theatre on Saturday evening in A Living Statue. It is some years since this play was first produced here by the Majeronis, and no ...

    Article : 1,120 words
  26. FIRE.

    A fire broke out on Saturday afternoon in a workshop situated in St.Heliers street, Abbotsford, occupied by A. Bodgers, a carpenter. The Collingwood Union Volunteer Fire ...

    Article : 72 words
  27. Advertising

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    Advertising : 44 words
  28. Advertising

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