MY DEAR MR. BELL,—It is with no little anxiety that I have been waiting for your paper, to see if you thought it worth while to put my letter in print; and when I found that you not only did so, but invited me to write ...
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Article : 328 wordsAnother exciting match will be played to-day, the contending parties being an equal number from South Yarra and Melbourne. The latter are said to have the advantage as far as practise goes, but the former bring ...
Article : 69 wordsQUOITING.—If Smith of Newcastle feels inclined for a trip to the gold-fields to make up his pile, he can be accommodated on the Durham Lead for £50 a side, and £10 will be given him to play there in one month ...
Article : 76 wordsThe large number of entries for the Great Metropolitan Stake has excited the most flattering hopes as to the amount of sport, and speculations that the Spring Meeting of the Victoria Jockey Club will afford. As ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 20 wordsPEDESTRIANISM AT BALLAARAT.—By electric telegraph we learn that in consequence of heavy rains the Washington Circus is flooded, and George Moore has been obliged to discontinue his undertaking, but ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 55 words[?] GIPPS LAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—A meeting of this body was held on the 8th instant, at the Ship Inn Port Albert. Officers were elected, and it was determined [?] hold three shows annually, viz, in spring, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 114 wordsWe take from that very useful and improving work, The Agricultural and Horticultural Gazette, the following SUGGESTIONS FOR OCTOBER. KITCHEN GARDEN.—Although in most situations, all ...
Article : 1,232 wordsThis event, which came off last Tuesday, about six miles from Castlemaine, was a hastily-made match, but created a deal of excitement in the neighbourhood. Cleghorne, Brock, and Smith, in the course of a ...
Article : 3,161 wordsOn Thursday last, about forty gentlemen left Pond's Reef hotel, for the purpose of enjoying a day's sport in hunting the kangaroo. The proposed scene of operations was the Bald Hills, about five miles from the reefs. The ...
Article : 296 wordsThis great two days' meeting commenced on 21st June. The delightful diameter of the weather and the rich variety of the programme drew to the scene a large assemblage of company. University men mustered as ...
Article : 1,219 wordsMeredith is becoming famous in the annals of sporting. Game is so abundant there that the Geelong Hunt Club have begun to regard that part of the country as the only place worthy their attention; certainly their ...
Article : 223 wordsA match at this favorite game was played yesterday morning, at the Ball Court, Little Bourke street, between two celebrated amateurs—Mr. M'C., of Bourke street, and Mr. B., of "Corkscrew" notoriety. The conditions ...
Article : 215 wordsSIR,—As the expediency of growing artificial grasses or other green crops to provide food for our stock is now attracting some attention throughout this district, I have thought that some remarks on the properties and mode ...
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