Thursday, 26th December.-9 a.m.-Wind, W., fresh; fi[?] Bar., 30-02; ther., 70. 6 p.m.—Wind S., mode[?] very fine. Bar., 30-05; ther., 60. ARRIVED. ...
Article : 64 wordsA more dreary Christmas-day than this one was after the hour of noon, in Ballarat The morning was fitful in its bursts of sunshine and shadow, but was pleasant, and hopeful holiday-folk ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Germania, steamer, Allan’s line, has been wrecked; thirty souls lost. A dreadful railway accident has taken place in Pennsylvania. The Carriages were on fire. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 221 wordsAt the numerous churches of the Church of England, throughout the district, the usual service for Christmas-day was celebrated, and it was noticed that as a rule the congregations were larger than is generally ...
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Advertising : 268 wordsIt speaks a great deal for the orderly behavior of Ballarat people to say that on Boxing night there was not a drunkard in the City lock-up, and in neither was there a man charged with any crime. One man was ...
Article : 2,789 wordsThe weather to-day was splendid for holiday-makers, and the sports on the Albert ground attracted thousands of spectators. The Rangatira has arrived. She spoke the ...
Article : 186 wordsAs far as I have been able to ascertain, all the different ways of spending Boxing-day have been done good and sufficient justice to upon this its latest anniversary. Crowds and crowds of pleasure-seekers ...
Article : 229 wordsOn Christmas-day there was a very pleasant gathering of the children of the asylum, the children of St. Paul’s School, and officers and friends, of the orphanage. The purpose was the distribution of some gifts ...
Article : 163 wordsOur local correspondent writes:—“Christmas-day was anything but a merry day in this district, either for farmers or anyone else, for what affects the former affects the district generally. The late rain has ruined ...
Article : 155 wordsNotwithstanding the great variety of holiday attractions in other quarters, the Intercolonial Cricket Match, played on Thursday afternoon on the ground of the Melbourne Club, was largely attended, ...
Article : 824 wordsBoxing-day, like Christmas-day, opened as an English April day does, with smiles and tears. Happily the smiles predominated and remained, and so holiday people turned put in mighty array, and the ...
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Family Notices : 96 wordsNotwithstanding the threatening character of the weather, and the fact that rain had been for some time falling, and was falling at the moment the concert commenced, the annual performance of Handel’s ...
Article : 1,275 wordsThe Carl case in all its aspects is one of the most carious that has come before any of the colonial courts for a very long time, if ever a case so curious was heard before. It affords ...
Article : 1,802 wordsSIR,—Like many more people, I have been excessively disgusted at the way in which the Minister of Agriculture has been humbugged in his efforts to establish what the country stands so much in need of, ...
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The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), Fri 27 Dec 1872, Page 2
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