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The anxiously expected race for the world's championship and £200 between the Queensland aboriginal, Samuels, and the English representative, Hutchens, over a distance of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miss Hunt, the daughter of the well-known proprietor of the Oxford Hotel, intends presenting a very handsome trophy to the player making the highest single innings score in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Following are the entries for the races which are to come off on the 26th and 27th insts.:-- PUBLICANS PURSE. Young Stanhope, Duchess, Young Empress,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following entries have been made for the races which are to take place on February 16 and 17 next:-- BOROUGH HANDICAP…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WEST MAITLAND, Monday.--The following entrances were received to-day for the Anniversary Picnic races, which are to take place on the Rutherford Course, Maitland, on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Excursion Tickets to Camden will be issued at Sydney, Picton, and intermediate stations on WEDNESDAY, 26th, and THURSDAY, 27th January, available for return for distances over 15 miles until MONDAY, 31st, and for distances under 15 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →According to late English files, a,benefit was to be tendered on December 18 to the celebrated pugilist, Jem Mace. A £10 handicap is advertised to be run at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A match between the Australian Eleven and Shaw's English team was played on the Association Cricket Ground on January the 7th, 8th, 10th, and 11th. The Englishmen having won the toss went…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A meeting of the above association was held at the Angel Hotel last night, at which there was a full attendance of delegates. A protest was entered against the Cumberland Mercury…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Entries for Penrith Handicap require to be made to-day. Articles were signed yesterday afternoon for a quarter of a mile footrace between L. E…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The St. James' Gazette, in referring to the recent meeting of the Rugby Union, says, in speaking of the new rules on professionals—Section 2 of rule No. 2, which makes, it filegal for a member to receive any payment as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Although the Intercolonial match has been announced to commence on Saturday, there are doubts as to whether the rain will not have made the wicket on the Association Ground too heavy for a display of first-class cricket…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tweed River races have again been postponed until the 9th and 10th February…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On the above dates a SPECIAL TRAM, suitable for private parties and ladies, will leave Bridge-street at 11.45 a.m. for the Cricket Ground direct. Return Tickets, 1s 6d each, may be obtained at the Ticket…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A foot-race (handicap) will be run at Penrith to-morrow under the auspices of the local Progress Association. Pedestrians will-do well to remember that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Under the nom de plume of "Fair Play," a correspondent writes as follows:—"It is now some six weeks since the prizes for this regatta were won, and yet nothing seems to have been done with regard to the distribution of them. I…
Continued on Trove, page 196 →DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN LADY SWIMMER.—The death is announced of Miss Emily Nisbet, at Hollywood, South Kensington, the residence of her father, Capt. E. P. Nisbet. She had been honorary secretary of the Ladies'…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Among our illustrations will be found a finely-executed likeness of Mr. Percy M'Donnell, our dashing young batsman who made the sensational score of 239 on the Melbourne. Cricket Ground, in the late intercolonial…
Continued on Trove, page 193 →To-day the thirty-sixth intercolonial match between New South Wales and Victoria commences on the Association Cricket Ground at noon. In view of the late showery weather it was thought that it might be best to postpone the…
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