Double Bay Regatta
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1879 · page 5
The following entries were received at the Exchange Hotel, on Staturday evening, for this regatta, but through the rather unsatisfactory manner in which some of the races havefilled up, the committee have decided not to close…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1879 · page 5
Also in Evening News
This regatta took place on Saturday last, and everything passed off [?]torily. To those who can recall to mind the old Woolleomooloo Bay regettas, this one may sink into insignificance by comparison; but in those days…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1879 · page 5
The Orange Annual Meeting was continued on Friday, when the course was in good order, and the attendance tolerably numerous. A good field went to the post for the Julian Avenal Produce States, and Dewdrop, after making…
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Evening News · Monday 10 March 1879 · page 2
GUNNEDAH, Saturday.—The race meeting passed off fairly well, and the attendance, considering the weather and postponement, was good. At the settling, in replying to the toast of the winner, Mr…
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Evening News · Monday 10 March 1879 · page 2
Mr.MELBOURNE, Monday.—When the English team on Saturday at 5 o'clock wanted only 54 runs to get to win the game, Lord Harris proposed to Boyle to play the match out, and even if…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 March 1879 · page 5
Nominations for the great coursing stake known as the Bathuist Cup, for 32 dogs, at £50 each, will close at the Royal Hotol at 4 p.m. on Wednesday. It is expected that fully one-half the ontrios will be from Melbourne. The…
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Evening News · Tuesday 11 March 1879 · page 2
NARRABRI, Monday.—Proserpine, Forrester, Traveller, Cooraman, Lady Hunter, Tricotrin, Slim Jim, Sunlight, Scamp, Zephyr, Chandos, and Concert hare accepted for the Namoi Jockey Club…
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Evening News · Tuesday 11 March 1879 · page 2
YOUNG, Tuesday.—The weather here is fine now, but it is threatening rain. The town is filling fast with visitors, some for the show and others for the races. Two coaches came in this morning with…
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Evening News · Tuesday 11 March 1879 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Monday.—At the banquet field after the cricket match. Lord Harris, speaking with respect to the dispute which occurred that day, said be regretted…
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Evening News · Tuesday 11 March 1879 · page 3
SIR,—I was very much astonished at the wholesale slander upon Mr. T. K. Abbott and myself telegraphed you paper of the 6th from the TAMWORTH OBSERVER, and I cannot understand how any one…
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Evening News · Wednesday 12 March 1879 · page 2
GLEN INNES, Wednesday.—The booths and gates at the forthcoming race meeting were sold at auction yesterday, and realised £100…
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Evening News · Thursday 13 March 1879 · page 3
The Double Bay Regatta, advertised for Saturday, promises to be the most eventful of the season. The entries in the numerous races are far above the average. A novel contest has been introduced for…
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Evening News · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 4
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—There is a large attendance at the Melbourne Regatta, being held this afternoon, on the Saltwater River. The weather is magnificent, and be Excellency the Governor is…
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Evening News · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 4
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal
The regatta fixed for to-day, and for which there are a great number of sailing races, has been postponed, in consequence of the wet weather, and the absence of wind that has prevailed throughout the morning…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 419
The great Cup entries for the largest amount known in connection with the leash did not fill so well as was anticipated. Several Victorians who stated their intention to ake entries in it were conspicuous by their absence…
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Evening News · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 3
Lord and Lady Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Hornby, Miss Ingham, and Messrs. Absolom, Schnltz, Hone, Mackinnon, and Webbe, sailed on March 11 by the Albion steamship for New Zealand, en route to…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 33
IN my short report of the two day's racing, held at Orango, on the 6th and 7th March, I was unable, through proas of time, to include all I should have wished, and there baing many small items; both…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 10
MELBOURNE, Monday.—When the English team on Saturday at 6 o'clock wanted only 54 runs to get to win the game, Lord Harris proposed to Boyle to play the match out, and even if…
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