Boxing-day Races
ON Monday last a large number of persons gathered on the Yass course to witness the back races got up to afford amusement to those fund of witnessing this description of…
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Sport, 1859
38 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Cricket Match
ON Monday last, Boxing-day, a cricket match came off on the Yass common betwixt two elevens selected from amongst the youth and young men of the town. The wickets…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Intelligence. Anniversary Races
To-day (Wednesday) being the anniversary of the foundation of the colony, races will be held on the Goulburn course in commemoration of the event. The following are the entrances for the first and…
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THESE races came off present to previous announcement on the Goulburn course, on Wednesday last. The weather, though rather hot, was fine, but the attendance was not so numerous as could have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. Bungendore Races. (To the Editor of the Goulburn Herald.)
SIR.—The correspondent of the Chronicle, writing from Queanbeyan, gives vent to some very splenetic though vague, insinuations respecting the date fixed for our (this year's) races, and seriously accuses…
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THE sun rose on Tuesday last brilliantly; the cool breeze blowing from off the south bank of the Murrumbidgee, the lowing of the herds, the bleating of the sheep, and the merry…
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THESE races came off on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday last. I send you herewith a brief account of the first day's racing, and shall forward the second and third days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Intelligence. Cricket Match. Goulburn and Queanbeyan
THIS Long talked of match was determined on Saturday last, on the recreation ground in front of the Commercial Bank. The day was beautifully fim, but the attendance was not so numerous as we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District Intelligence. Adelong Annual Races
THESE races commenced on Tuesday last. The programme extends over throe days. On Tuesday there were about six hundred spectators and others on the course. The weather…
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A REPORT of the first day's racing at Adelong appeared in our last issue. The following account of the subsequent days is extracted from the Adelong Mining Journals: --…
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FOR some weeks page the Tumut district has been scoured -- by some for money, and others for horse flesh -- for this annual gathering, and I can confidently say that in no district…
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THE endeavours which have been so frequently made of late to introduce the noble game of cricket into general notice throughout the colony, augur well for its shortly attaining a priority amongst all other…
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THESE races came off on the 17th and 18th instant. Both days were very fine, the attendance was good, and everything passed off in the most satisfactory manner…
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A correspondent of the Yass Courier supplies the following account of the first day's sport. FIRST RACE.—The Tumut Criterion Stakes of 40 says., with a sweepstake of 2 sovs. each added, for…
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THESE races came off on the 16th, 17th, and 18th instant, on the Tea-tree course. They were well attended, from three hundred to four hundred people being present on each day…
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THE return match between the above mentioned cricket clubs came off at Queanbeyan on Tuesday, the 23rd instant, the former winning with eight wicket to spare. The weather was very…
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THESE races came off on Tuesday, March 22, on the new race-course, where a numerous and respectable muster of the farmers and other inhabitants of Tarago and its environs met, to support, with their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cooma Annual Races. [In our last we published an accont of these races. We have since received a faller report from our Cooma correspondent, and as it gives the time occupied in the running, and supplies other particulars, we give it entire. It will be seen that the report in Wednesay's issue is quite correct.]
THESE races came off on the days advertised, viz., March 16th, 17th, and 18th, on the Tea-tree Course, and have been altogether the best that have taken place on Monaroo during the last few years…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cooma Annual Races. (To the Editor of the Goulburn Herald.)
SIR,—On noticing a report of the Cooma annual races in your contemporary, there are several misstatements so flagrantly wrong that I am induced to correct them , or the public might br misled in…
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QUEANBEYAN V. GOULBURN. -- In our last issue we were able to furnish the score of the first innings of this match. As then anticipated the Queanbeyanites were the victors…
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