The Regatta. (From the Sydney Herald)
Monday, the 58th anniversary of the foundation of the colony, was celebrated as usual by a regatta. The weather was particularly fine, and a fresh breeze springing up rendered…
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Cricket Match
On Monday last the players of Maitland tried their skill at the manly game of Cricket against those of Morpeth, Raymond Terrace, and Paterson. The ground chosen was Mr…
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The return match between the Maitland eleven and eleven of Morpeth, Raymond Terrace, and the William River came off on the Maitland ground on Monday last. The…
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The lovers of the turf had an excellent day's sport on Thursday last, on which day came off the races intended to have taken place on St. Patrick's Day, but postponed to…
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On Tuesday last a match came off at Raymond Terrace, between the Maitland players on one side, and those of Raymond Terrace, Morpeth, and William River, on the other…
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On Monday last a cricket match was played in Adams's paddock, East Maitland, between eleven East and eleven West Maitland players. The match was won by the West…
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There was the greatest assemblage of spectators that have been seen at these races for years past, and amongst them were the families of several most respectable residents;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Extracts. Analysis of the Past Racing Season. [From Bell's Life in London, Nov. 30.)
The following statement has been carefully compiled from the most correct data, and although it only professes to to be a proximate return, the omissions are of too trivial a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney News. Bathurst Races. (From the Herald, April 27.) Second Day, Thursday, April 23
This day was warmer and finer than the previous one, and this circumstance caused a much larger assemblage of spectators. First race.—Hurd[?]e race for £20, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bathurst Races. (From the Herald, May 2.) Third Day, Friday, April 24
First Race.—Publicans' Purse of £40; [?]eats twice round. Mr. Declout's Benelong (Matthews) 1 2 1 Mr. Peter White's Ajax.......... 4 1 2…
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These races commenced yesterday, and were very numerously attended. The racing was regarded by those interested as being good and well contested. The following are…
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On Monday last a return match came off between eleven East Maitland and eleven West Maitland players, on the West Maitland ground. The original match was played in…
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The attendance was very limited, and the only race which was fixed for that day was for the Squatters' Purse of fifty sovereigns, with a sweepstakes of three sovereigns each,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dickens's New Work. (From Bell's Messenger, Dec. 29.) The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. By Charles Dickens. Bradbury and Evans, London
At this season it would be an obvious waste of our time to repeat those peculiar qualities which mark the distinctive character of Mr. Dickens as an author…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Extracts. Mr. Dickens's New Work. [From the Liverpool Albion, Dec. 19.] The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. By Charles Dickens. London, Bradbury, and Evans, 90, Fleet-street
All (and that all is, indeed, a multitude) who have read the works of "Boz," particularly his Christmas Carol and Chimes, will sit down to the perusal of the work…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Patrick's Plains Races. (From a Correspondent.)
These races came off on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday last, but we regret that the attendance (a true guage of prosperity in a community) should be so thin,…
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"Chirp the Second" commences at the lowly dwelling of Caleb Plummer, the toymaker's humble workman, who, with his blind daughter, lives in a little cracked…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Extracts. Mr. Dickens's New Work. [From the Liverpool Albion, Dec. 1[?].] The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. By Charles Dickens. London, Bradbury, and Evans, 90, Fleet-street. (Concluded from our last.)
We must hasten on. Behold the carrier, whose heart is full of love for his little wife, now sitting at home troubled and grief-worn: "It was a heart so full of love for her, so…
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The following is the score of the cricket match played in East Maitland on Monday, the result of which we stated in our last. EAST MAITLAND—FIRST INNINGS…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Braidwood Races. (From Bell's Life, July 18.)
The Braidwood Races came off, according to advertisement, on the 7th and 9th July. FIRST DAY. First Prize.—A Sweepstakes of £3 3s., with…
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