Q.E.D.—The owner of Flying Doe means to run the Doe only and no other against Lauristina. It never occurred to us that his challenge would bear the construction suggested. ...
Article : 493 wordsDirectly after I had posted my last letter, I saw a second edition of the Era, containing Mr. Rose's letter, in which he expresses his willingness to run Lauristina against the Flying Doe for £500 to £ 100, or £1000 to ...
Article : 1,257 wordsThe "boiling" of "a pot" has always been considered (by the wise) to be amongst the most recondite of Turf mysteries. The operation, closely watched as it always is, by those who have a large interest in its failure, requires ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 435 wordsThe Legislative Council sat on Tuesday. Nearly the whole of the sittings was engrossed by Johnny Fawkner, who, in his self-assumed character of general censor, went into the several questions of the amount of labour ...
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Advertising : 169 wordsGUANO FROM THE WEST.—Advices from Havannah report that the guano in the island south of Cuba was of remarkable richness, and the quantity inexhaustible, an assertion which, considering the latitude of the place, ...
Article : 1,081 wordsTHE Land Bill stares us in the face every side we turn, usque ad nauseam. Whether in the Legislative Assembly, in the National Convention, in tho Hotel, or in the Club, the ...
Article : 947 wordsThe high price of horse food, or some other cause, has driven what Goldsmith calls "that noble animal, the Lorse," to take a benefit at this theatre, and Mr. Richard Younge, with a commendable zeal for the interests of ...
Article : 649 wordsWithin the last few years a new source of really edifying amusement has been opened up in England by the enterprise and ingenuity of naturalists, who have found that marine and other aquatic animals may be preserved ...
Article : 1,734 wordsThe happy change in the weather at the close of last week induced a better muster than lately, and it was a cheering sight to see the number of sporting visitors as well as "regulars." The meet was at Host Rose's, of the ...
Article : 799 wordsA numerous and highly-influential meeting of farmers was held last Monday, at the Adam and Eve, Haymarket, for the purpose of consulting on the best means of inducting machinists and inventors to contrive some plan ...
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