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Sport, 1878

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Latest Intelligen[?] [By Electric Telegraph.] (Through Greville's Telegram Company.) Sydney, Tuesday Evening. Tattersall's Races

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1878 · page 4

MAIDEN Platg: Woodlands Mikado Mares' Produce Stakes: Royal Oak Propriety. Cup: Woolston, Laertes Colima…

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Anniversary Races

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 30 January 1878 · page 2

ONE of the most pleasant and enjoyable little, gatherings which has been held in Glen Innes for many years, took place on the racecourse on Saturday last. the occasion being the 90th…

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Athletic Sports

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 20 February 1878 · page 4

These sports, which the Committee had arranged as a supplementary attraction to the show, took place on the Society's ground, on Friday. Unfortunately the weather proved…

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Armed Ale Cricket Club

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1878 · page 4

On the evening of Friday last, Feb. 22nd, a Committee meeting of the above-named Club was held, in the Building Society's Booms, Falconer-street…

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Tamworth Races. Tamworth

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1878 · page 5

TRIAL Stakes: Bowker's Baroona, 1. Maquire's Caswallen, 2. Cross's Crab, 3. This was a pretty race. The winner was wall ridden by Mark Thompson…

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On Horse-racing and Steeplechasing

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 20 March 1878 · page 2

PERHAPS there is no place in the world in proportion to its size where horse racing and other amusements are so fashionable, and so often indulged in, as in the metropolis of New…

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INVERELL. (Abridged from the Times.) the Races

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1878 · page 3

THE Inverall race, for 1878, commenced on Wednesday last, and extended through Thursday. On the first day the attendance of visitors was very limited, but on…

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Armidale Cricket and Gun Clubs

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1878 · page 4

A GENERAL meeting of the Armidale Cricket and Gun Clubs was held, at the Building Society's office, on Tuesday last…

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Armidale Cricket Club

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1878 · page 4

AT a meeting of the Armidale Cricket Club, held in the Building Society's office, on Saturday last, Present: Messrs. John Moore…

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Rand Wick Races. Sydney, Monday Evening

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 April 1878 · page 5

The Randwick races:—Hurdle: Standard, Highland Chief, Flinders. Autumn Stakes: Martingale, Macaroni,…

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Latest Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] (Through Greville's Telegram Company.) Randwick Races

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1878 · page 5

ALL-AGED Stakes: Bosworth, Rooder,Napper-Tandy. Won easily. Free Handicap: Kitty, Dockwood, Falcon…

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Glen Innes Races

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 15 May 1878 · page 2

THE fourth annual meeting of the Glen Innes Jockey Club commenced, as announced, on last Wednesday, the weather throughout proving wretchedly disagreeable, and completely…

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Glen Innes. (Abridged from the Guardian.) the Annual Races

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1878 · page 6

These races came off on Wednesday, May 8, and the two following days. We append, from the 'Guardian,' its account of the running:—…

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Foot Racing

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 May 1878 · page 4

Monday's 'Newcastle Herald' says:—The match between R. F. Watson, of West Maitland, and Charles Carver, late of Moree, for £200 a side, 200 yards, which…

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Tales and Sketches. Fifty Years a Cricketer. By the Author of "The Cricket Field." (From London Society.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1878 · page 2

I Never can walk about Lord's without some such reflections as may be supposed in Rip Van Winkle after biB sleep of twenty years; the present and the past…

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Metropolitan Gossip. the Clarence River J. C. RACES

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 17 July 1878 · page 2

So at last the Agricultural Society has decided to hold an International Exhibition in 1879. The special meeting of members held today was both a large and an enthusiastic one, and the motion that the exhibition should be proceeded with was WE learn from the Grafton Examiner that ibis meeting, which was gone through on Wednesday and Thursday, was attended with immeasurable success. Not only were the fields in almost every…

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Cricket and Racing in the Old Country

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 31 July 1878 · page 2

ONE of the Australian cricketers, Mr. Conway, writing from London on 10th May, to a South Australian newspaper; goes heavily into cricket and rowing matters in the old country. He went…

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An Extraordinary Swimming Feat

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 9 October 1878 · page 3

The London Standard says:-- "A young girl, not yet seventeen years of age, daughter of a professional swimmer, achieved a feat altogether unprecedented. Her father had in her behalf…

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Melbourne Spring Races. First Day--saturday

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 November 1878 · page 4

THE Victorian Jockey Club races commenced today, under the most favourable auspices. There was a very large attendance, including visitors from all the colonies. Proceedings…

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Armidale Amateur Athletic and Dramatic Club. To the Editors of the Armidale Express

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 6 December 1878 · page 6

GENTLEMEN—I did my best as an Amateur in Hamlet, and for the Society and the Hospital. I regret it did not please, but I never answer or write anonymous…

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