Dr. Moorhouse on Cricket
HIS Lordship the Bishop of Melbourne made the following famous speech at the recent Cricketers' banquet in Melbourne. It is too good to be lost…
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Cricket. ADVANCE V. BULGA
ON Saturday last a very interesting match was played on the Singleton C.C.'s ground between elevens of the Advance and Bulga clubs. Most of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yarraman Athletic Sports. New Year's Day. [From Our Correspondent.]
THE opening of the new year was a grand success with the help of the above sports. Nothing else was talked about for some time by both sexes. There must have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colly Blue Athletic Sports. [From Our Correspondent.]
COLLY Blue is certainly not a very imposing placewhat nevertheless. I believe it held its own with its neighbours in regard to sports on New Year's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Entrances and Handicaps for the Maitland Anniversary Regatta
"Below we give the complete list of entries, together with the handicaps for the various events to be contested for on Monday next, at the Anniversary Regatta, to be held on the…
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Officers—Regatta: Treasurer, Mr. E. P. Capper; Umpire, Mr. John Leo; Referees, Messrs. E. P. Capper, and W. H. Mullen; Starter, Mr. A. Wilkinson;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Anniversary Regatta (Reuter's Telegram to "Mercury.") Sydney, Monday evening
At the Anniversary Regatta, in the first race,—for all youths under sixteen years of age, pulling a pair of sculls in dingies not exceeding twelve feet in length,—the winner was Postboy. There were two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Jockey Club Annual Races. First Day, 27Th January, 1879. (From our own Reporter.)
Officials:—Patron, His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson; Vice-president, C. H. Hannell, Esq.; Handicapper, J. Scarr, Esq.; Judge, C. H. Hannell,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Muswellbrook Athletic Club. (From our own Reporter.) Fourth Meeting
President.—R. T. Keys, Esq.; Vice-President,—James White, Esq.; Judge,—R T. Keys, Esq.; Referees,—E. T. Cooper, Esq., and A. Nowland, Esq.;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Maitland Regatta. the Settling—proposal for Annual Regattas
On Tuesday evening the Regatta Committee met at Tuck's Commercial Hotel, West Maitland, to pay over the prizes won at the late regatta, consider the protests, and other…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lochinvar. the Anniversary Races
The Anniversary of the colony, the 26th of January, falling on a Sunday, Monday, the 27th, was kept as a general holiday. With us the only attraction in the village was the…
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Saturday next is the day upon which the next meeting of the above club will be played out, and if fine weather should prevail on the occasion, no doubt a good many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Jockey Club Annual Races. Second Day, 28Th January, 1879. (From our own Reporter.)
The weather was again very favourable for the concluding day of this, perhaps the most successful meeting yet held in Newcastle. The attendance was very fair for an off day…
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The interest centered in the meeting of the above club, which takes place to-day on the West Maitland Racecourse is scarcely as great as I would wish to see, or as it has been on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Merriwa. Cricket Match and Foot Race
Saturday, the 25th day of January, was one of the most lively and exciting that we have had for a very considerable period, the township was full of visitors, Cassilis, Scone, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Merriwa Races. (From a Correspondent.)
This meeting, being the first since the inauguration of our race club, came off on Monday, 27th instant (by the kind permission of the President of our club), on the Brindley…
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Officials: Patron, His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, K.C.M.G. President: John Eales, Esq. Vice-Presidents: Frank Reynolds, Esq., and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How San Franciscans View Cricket
GRAND excitement out at the cricket grounds (exclaims the News Letter,)-Australian Eleven plays the California Twenty-two.—Fourteen thousand people…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District News. (From Various Correspondents.) Wollobbi. Races at Laguna
No sports having been provided here for the commemoration of the anniversary of the colony, the good folks of Wollombi honoured Laguna with their presence on Monday and…
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There is great excitement here between the two local clubs, viz., Merriwa and Brindley Park. I sent you a report of a match played by these clubs on the 22nd January, and…
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