The Christmas Holiday. Boxing Day Sports, &c
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 December 1872 · page 2
Boxing Day (Thursday next) is to be the occasion of a variety of pastimes as, our readers have been made aware from time to time during the past few weeks, through our advertising…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Athletic Sports on the Albion Ground
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 December 1872 · page 3
As will be seen below, the principal events of these sports, to take place to-day on the Albion Ground, West Maitland, will be well contested, the numbor of competitors being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cricket Match
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 December 1872 · page 2
The cricket match between eleven players of the Sydney Victoria Club and a team selected from our local Albion Club, was a source of constant interest to the visitors to the Albion Ground during the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scone Christmas Races. (From our own Reporter.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 December 1872 · page 2
The Christmas meeting of the Scone Jockey Club was held on Boxing Day, on the Scene race-course, and attracted a large concourse of people, including a number of the fair sex. The course was in good…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wallsend Annual Races. (From the Newcastle Chronicle.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 December 1872 · page 4
The following is a report of the races at Wallsend in Friday, which took place after our reporter was compelled to leave the course in order to catch the afternoon train:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blandford Races. (From the Murrurundi Times, Dec. 28.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 December 1872 · page 4
The Blandford races took place on Boxing Day and yesterday. On the former day the attendance was very good—there could not have been less than 500 persons present. The weather being fine,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →