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Sport, 1865

3 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

The Late Cricket Match at Cundle. (To the Editor of the Manning River News)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 29 April 1865 · page 2

SIR,—I was not a little disappointed when pursuing. the News of the 22nd instant, to notice that you had not been supplied with an account of the return cricket - match, played on Candle…

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Poet Macquarie Races [Reported expressly for the M. S. News.]

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 16 September 1865 · page 3

THE Port Macquarie Races came off according to advertisement on the 6th and 7th of this month; and I do not think that better races were ever run in Port Macquarie…

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The Taree Races

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 7 October 1865 · page 2

CAME off last Thursday. From two to three hundred people were present, among whom were several magistrates, and other highly respectable inhabitants of the river. The day…

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