WHAT'S to win the Derby? is now the grand question, and as I promised you in my last letter to give you a tip, I suppose I must do so. Spanker From being thrown out of training, and the nonarrival of Charlton, reduces the number of starters to five, viz, ...
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Article : 378 wordsTHE fact that the match between John Roberts and W. Cook jun., was the first contest for the Billiard Championship that has ever taken place in England added not a little to the interest naturally excited by the meeting of two such exponents of one of ...
Article : 2,157 wordsWhen Jack Falstaff was relating his adventures at the ever memorable battle of Gadshill, he said, "If there were not two or three and fifty upon poor old Jack, then I am no two-legged creature." I am not, perhaps, as badly off as the fat knight, but ...
Article : 967 words"Wonder if it will over rain again," said Jack Wilmot to his brother Herbert, one autumn morning as they sat at breakfast Scene: A cattle station on the upper Warrabidgee, time 6.30; dramatis personal—two squatters and their friend Frank Harley of ...
Article : 2,366 wordsSir,—In my last letter I contended strongly for the necessity of vigorous and united action on the part of our local manufacturers, for the purpose of bringing as strong a pressure as possible to bear upon the government at the reassembling of Parliament. From ...
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Advertising : 285 wordsSir,—The "right of reply" I believe is a principle universally admitted in all British communities, and in claiming such a right as regards "Jack Smith's" effusion in your last issue, I trust I shall not be trespassing upon the patience of your readrs of the ...
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Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle (NSW : 1860 - 1870), Sat 21 May 1870, Page 4
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