Cricket
A match was played on Hyde Park, on Saturday last, 28th instant, between the Sydney Grammar School and the Collegiate School, Cook's River, in which the latter were victorious in one innings as shown in the…
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The Balmain Regatta
THE Anniversary Regatta on St Andrews day came off as usual at Balmain on Monday, and was the occasion of a large and gay assemblage. The weather, which appeared at first rather unpropitious to aquatic sports,…
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We beg to draw attention to the list of prizes a another column, of the Wooloomooloo Bey Regain with one or two alterations in the courses decided upon since the insertion of the programme in our 4th page…
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SIR—I trust for public decency's sake steps will be taken to prevent men and boys bathing at the Fig Tree during the forthcoming regatia. Last year I visited these races with my wife and family and a more brutal and…
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SIR,—I trust, for public decency sake, steps will be taken to prevent men and boys bathing at the Fig Tree during the forthcoming regatta. Last year I visited these race[?] [?] my wife and children, and a…
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SIR—Your advocacy of the requirements of batherss at the Fig Tree is deserving of public thanks; your correspondent also, signing himself "Father of a Family," throws out some practical hints for the prevention of…
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A meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday, at Messrs Mort's Rooms, Pitt street, to make the neces[?]ry financial and other arrangements for the forthcoming intercolonial match, and for the purpose of selecting an…
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The Woolloomooloo regatta of 1857 was not so successful as those of past years. It fell behind indeed its predecessors not only in attracting as large a concourse of spectators, but also in the success which…
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The weather was exceedingly favourable for the holiday keepers on Saturday; and the citizens were not slow to take advantage of the circumstance. Sydney proper was well nigh descrted during the day, the places of…
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WHATEVER may be the depression of the times, the dulness of trade, the confusion or stagnation of politics, the restless appetite for holiday of the good citizens of the…
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Saturday last (Boxing-day) was fixed upon for the commencement of the Ashfield Races. Up to about 10 o'clook the sun shone forth brilliantly; for about an hour after that time it was obscured by thick clouds, and the…
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AGAIN the weather was favourable, and, considering that this the second day of these at present young races came in at the fag-end of the Christmas holidays, the attendance, though scarcely equal to…
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These races came off on Saturday last, Boxing Day, on the Wollongong Course. The day was, very favourable, and the number of persons present must have been something near four hundred, the great majority…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bega, Twofold Bay. (From a Correspondent of the Illawarra Mercury.) First Annual Races. First Day, 15Th December, 1857
Everything was favourable for the inauguration of our annual races, on the first day. Weather propitions—a capital course—obliging stewards—and, an impartial judge. At the appointed hour, the following horses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Christmas Races. (From the Maitland Mercury, December 29.) First Day, Monday, December 28
The first morning train to Newcastle was literally crammed with passengers bound for the races., Perhaps never since the opening of the railway by his Excellency the Governor has the traffic been so great. At Hexham…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Chrtstmas Races. (Abridged from the Maitland Mercury of Yesterday.) First Day, Monday, December 28
THE first morning train to Newcastle was literally crammed with passengers bound for the races. Perhaps never since the opening of the railway by his Excellency the Governor has the traffic been so great. A…
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ON Saturday last, the Northumberland Cricket Club played a match on their ground, adjoining Mr. M. Beirne's, Daniel O'Connell Inn. Two elevens were chosen out of the club, and, by way of distinction, the…
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