Albury Train for Wagga Gold Cup Races
On Wednesday, April 26, Wagga Gold Cup day, the rail motor train running between Albury and Junee will be replaced by a steam train for the…
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Brilliant Four Gold Rod Fit for To-day's Race Sydney
Gold Rod, who is to meet Ajax in the All Aged Plate at Randwick tomorrow, demonstrated this morning that his win in the AJ.C. Doncaster…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gold Rod—mosaic Settling on Big A.J.C. Double Sydney
At the settling on the Doncaster-Sydney Cup double to-day bookmakers paid out about £25,000 on the successful combination. The biggest winner was…
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Mount Solitary Gold Mine had ceased operations for the Easter holidays but has resumed again now. There are 12 men employed on this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South African Miners Start Movement to Train Civilians Capetown
Rand underground workers are forming units to start training civilians for military service, in order to be ready for any emergency. Fifty East…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →German Coal Mine Explosion Berlin
Fourteen were killed and many injured in a coal mine explosion in Thuringia. As announced in an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Eastern in Wagga Gold Cup
Great Eastern, who won the Powerscourt Handicap at Mentone to-day is engaged in the Wagga Gold Cup Menu Forti ran fifth in the some race…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Gold Cup Meeting 29 Horses in Gold Cup At Wagga April 26 and 27 150 Horses Engaged
The Wagga Gold Cup Meeting on April 26 and 27, bids fair to equal records. The first objective of [?]ood nominations has been achieved,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Gold Cup Meeting Albury Racing Club Even Class of 21 in Gold Cup Beau Malt or Saul to Win
The Albury Gold Cup Meeting will be held on Friday and Saturday next, and with splendid nominations the meeting promises to eclipse all…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Some Achieved Fame And Some Notoriety Men and Women in History 80—Count Strzelecki, Discovered Gold and Made the First Map of Australia
Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki, perhaps better known as Count de Strzelecki in the nobility of Poland, and as Count Strzelecki in Australian annals, was the first to discover gold in New South Wales, and it was on the same…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Looking Backward The Adelong Goldfield PART 37 (Copyright) Memory Drift—a Tuesday of the Past—here Comes E. G. Brown—little Dick—old Faces—at the Rink—hammer and Drill Memory Drift
The human mind is ever running rearward; the morrow is before us, and of that we know nothing. We live our lives in action in association…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Victorian Mine Award 40-Hour Week Introduced Melbourne
An agreement has been reached between the Chamber of Mines and the Enginedrivers' and Firemen's Association, under which a 40-hour week for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wagga Gold Cup on View To-day in Hunters' Window
The 1939 Wagga gold cup will be on view to-day in the window of Messrs. Hunter Bros. Wagga. Of the value of 100 guineas, the cup is a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners' 30-Hour Claim Sydney
After a hearing lasting 72 days, Judge Drake Brockman reserved judgment in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day in the claim by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wagga Gold Cup Horses Alice Springs Shows Pace
Several horses with engagements in the Wagga Gold Cup competed at Randwick and Caulfield to-day, and perhaps the best performance was…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Liner's Gold Cargo From London to U.S.A. LONDON
The Cunard liner Antonia cancelled its passenger trip to Montreal on May 5, and instead will leave for New York on April 26 with a special cargo of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Magic Circle Selected to Win the 1939 Wagga Gold Cup Race Wagga's Main Sporting Fixture Cup Race May See Record Field Racing Generally on Par with Boom Years Heavy Booking Of Accommodation Indicates Big Social Gathering
The main sporting event of the year--the Wagga Gold Cup Race Meeting--will be held on the Murrumbidgee Turf Club's course on Wednesday and Thursday next. With a continuance of the glorious weather of the past week the fixture promises to be…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Great Boulder Mines Directors Issue Full Statement
In a cable message under date London, April 21, we are advised that a full statement has been issued in London by the Board of the Great Boulder…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mystery Submarines Canada Investigating Reports Mine-sweepers Patrol Coast Halifax
Canada is still investigating reports that mystery submarines have been seen off the Nova Scotian coast…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Looking Backward The Adelong Goldfield PART 38 (Copyright) the Old Racing Days—four Racecourses—back to 1872—Richard Prowse—a Meeting with Ben Hall—a Fine Sport the Old Racing Days
As I have previously written, the people of Old Adelong were ever a sport-loving community. There had to be diversion and relaxation from…
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