The ceremony of introducing Dan Tirmins to the prize-ring was daily performed on Tuesday and although there were many drawbacks to the comfort of the spectators, including a break-down of the ring, and much ...
Article : 1,609 wordsAFTER-DINNER CONUNDRUM.—When does a man sit down to a melancholy dessert?—When he sits down to wine (whine) and pine. HORSE SHOE WITHOUT NAILS.—Mr. Sewall Short, of ...
Article : 1,945 wordsOn Saturday afternoon last, come two or three hundred of her Majesty's loyal subjects, who had the good fortune to be in the vicinity of the St. Kilda Cricket Ground, were attracted to that spot by common consent ...
Article : 836 wordsCHALLENGE AT DRAUGHTS.—-H. Johnson, of Ballaarat, will play any one in Ballaarat, or its neighbourhood, the first 5, 7, or 9 von games at draughts, far from 5 to £20. Man and money ready at Mr. Dent's, ...
Article : 92 wordsDEAR BELL,—Last Monday, the 8th instant, we mounted our horses at Grignols (department of the Gironde), the scene of a deplacement of several days to a party of ardent votaries of the chase. The weather, ...
Article : 1,336 wordsThe long-talked of Scullers' Match between Samuel Wogan and John Riley, for £50 a-side, came off on Monday last, over the appointed course, viz: from the junction of the Saltwater River and the Yarra right ...
Article : 1,465 wordsHORSES.—Messrs. E. Row and Co. report: Our sales this week have been [?] and the prices realised satisfactory to vendors. We commenced on Monday with 20 head of draught horses used by Mr Randie, in the construction of ...
Article : 1,009 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,551 wordsThis regatta came off on Saturday last, but we regret to state without all success that should have accompanied so interesting an attempt to establish aquatic sports among the first-rate national amusements of this ...
Article : 1,080 wordsApril 21—Gertude, brig, 217 tons, A. Grange from Auckland, N.Z. [?]th last. Passengers—cabin: eight and a family; and eleven in the steerage. April 23—City of Sydney, A.S.N. Co's (s), 700 tons, R. J. ...
Article : 1,161 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: