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Advertising : 767 wordsThe annual general meeting of members of the Perth Bowling Club was held in the pavilion on the Esplanade on January 28. Mr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 244 wordsAmong the recent arrivals in Perth is the well-known boxer and ex-champion of Australia, Mr. "Abe" Hicken, who intends before ...
Article : 114 wordsHe would have his little joke. It happened this way. On March 2 last, Constable Maxwell, in his ordinary attire—off duty, of course ...
Article : 151 wordsAt a committee meeting of the Royal Perth Yacht Club on Wednesday afternoon Mr. H. Farmer was appointed to act as secretary ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Champion Yacht Race, North v. South, took place yesterday, and created much interest. The wind was strong from the ...
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Article : 156 wordsA writer in London Truth says:—I have received an interesting letter from Mr. R. C. Lehmann. who was been coaching the Harvard ...
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Article : 257 words" The Book on the Dog in Australia," a work on which Mr. Beilby (Melbourne) has been engaged for some months is ...
Article : 137 wordsOn Jan. 28 the members of the W. A. Gun Club met at the Grand Hotel. Mr. Eccles occupied the chair. Mr. Boulton, in returning ...
Article : 155 wordsMr. W. H. Betts, of Adelaide, a leading storekeeper here, in an interview to-day, stated that Esperance could not compete at the ...
Article : 336 wordsThere was some delay at the commencement of the great match at Moscow between Steinitz and Lasker, owing to suspicion ...
Article : 230 wordsAt a meeting of the N.S.W. Rowing Association on January 19 it was announced that Mr. Samuel Hordern would provide a ...
Article : 82 wordsThose who had the pleasure of seeing Giffen obtain his 27 and 32 in the never-to-be-foregotten Hon.Ivo. Bligh's team v. Australia ...
Article : 305 wordsThe South Australian team of baseball players will arrive next Tuesday morning. They will meet the pick of Victoria on the Melbourne Cricket ...
Article : 100 wordsAfrican sportsmen have lamented from time to time the approaching extermination of big game in Africa, and have suggested that a ...
Article : 138 wordsOne John Coughlin, an American crack swimmer, attempted early in November the feat of swimming the Golden Gate, San Francisco, so ...
Article : 245 wordsMr. L. P. Giblin, of Tasmania, played with the Cantabs in the recent football match between Oxford and Cambridge. The struggle ...
Article : 57 wordsIt is stated that, for the last 20 years Lord De Grey has shot an average of 10,000 head of game per annum. It is not a record that ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 5 Feb 1897, Page 3
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