Few of our readers who have been racing any period of time can have failed to remark a short gentleman, with sharp intelligent features, a rather stooping figure, and cigar in his mouth, talking very earnestly to John ...
Article : 2,066 wordsThis interesting affair came off last Saturday in the vicinity of the Greyhound, St. Kilda. It may be remembered that the match was originally made for £100 a side, and that Devonport was to receive £20 for the ...
Article : 1,416 wordsQuestions submitted for answers must have some distinctive signature. "Constant Subscribers," etc., are so numerous that they only produce confusion. We cannot answer questions on the following Saturday, ...
Article : 382 wordsIf the Rev. Mr. Binney, instead of lecturing on the life and travels of St. Paul on Monday evening, had announced to his friends and the public that for that night only he would appear as clerk to Dr. Cairns's parson; if ...
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Advertising : 293 wordsThe last and most important contest for aquatic honours that has taken place between Richard Green find Thomas Magrath, came off on Tuesday last, when these famous pullers met on the Parramatta river to decide ...
Article : 646 wordsTHE story of the loss of the Admella is one of the most frightful which we ever heard of. It is not that there were fifty lives lost, for there have were [?] in which ten times that number ...
Article : 2,139 wordsDEAR BELL,—On jumping into the pigskin last Saturday morning, we little expected such good sport as proved to be the case. Old Sol was shining brightly, and it was more like a summer's morning than we ...
Article : 461 words19—Trevin and Cowling, to run a hundred yards at the Camp Reserve, Bendigo, for L 80. SEPTEMBER. 10.—Moran and Long Jack to run a hundred yards on the ...
Article : 85 wordsPRESS C. C.—A meeting of persons connected with the Melbourne and suburban journals, and interested in the formation of a Press Cricket Club, was held on Saturday, in the Mechanics' Institute Mr. R. Hickes occupied the ...
Article : 422 wordsAt no more appropriate time than the present could a practical treatise on the use of the small sword, single stick, sabre, etc., have been published. Such a work has recently been issued from the press, and reflects the ...
Article : 271 wordsMELBOURNE HUNT.—The Melbourne hounds will meet— On Saturday afternoon, the 20th instant, near to the Royal Hotel, St, Kilda, at 2 o'clock. ...
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