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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Sport

Sport, 1868

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Newcastle Spring Races

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 17 September 1868 · page 2

The programme of races for tho Newcastle Spring Meeting, .which is fixed to take place on the 22nd and 23rd of October next, an publitfted in this journal of Saturday last, is one…

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Newcastle Spring Races

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 1 October 1868 · page 2

The entrances for the three handicap races, to the run at the for theoming Newcastle .Spring race meeting, closed [?][?]. The entries were opened and read at a meeting of…

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Athletic Sports on the Cricket Ground

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 3 November 1868 · page 2

We are requested by young Austin to announce, that a second grand athletic tourney will take place on tho Newcastle Cricket Ground, on next Monday week, the 16th instant, on which…

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Homebush Races. From the Herald

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 12 November 1868 · page 4

The Homebush Spring Race Meeting Commenced on Saturday last, with very fine weuther, a moderate attendancee of the public, and most excellent sport. A very large attendance…

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Athletic Sports

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 17 November 1868 · page 3

The announcement, through the press, that athletic sports would take place on the New-castle cricket ground yesterday afternoon, drew together a goodly number of…

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Wallsend Races. To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 3 December 1868 · page 2

SIR—Your contemporary the pilot (a very dangerous one, I am afraid, to put faith in) has taken upon itself to insert advertisements relating to the forthcoming Wallsend Turf Club Races, which, you are aware, take…

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Boxing Say and Christmas Amusements, &c

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 22 December 1868 · page 2

A more than ordinarily attractive programe of sports and amusements is announced for the approaching holidays, and, what with races, excursions, balls, soirees, and picnic…

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Original Poetry. a Trip to the Newcastle Races. May 25, 1867

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 26 December 1868 · page 3

It was on the twenty-fifth of May, Which was celebrated as the Queen's birthday, I went a visit for to pay To the Newcastle races…

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Boxing Day Amusements

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 29 December 1868 · page 2

Saturday last being Boxing Day, was observed in Newcastle and the Hunter River district generally, as a strict and universal holiday, and never do we remember to have…

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Wallsend Races

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 29 December 1868 · page 2

The Wallsend race meeting opened on Saturday last (Boxing Day) in the presence of a large gathering of people, there being at one time of the day not less than from twelve to…

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Maitland Christmas Races

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 29 December 1868 · page 3

We are indebted to the courtesy of the proprietor of the Maitland Mercury for the following report of the races at West Maitland, on Sunday last:—…

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