THE VISIONARY EXCURSION. —In June, of the year 1857, a lady whom I shall designate as Mrs A — was residing with her husband, a colonel of the British army, and her infant child, on Woolwich common, near ...
Article : 59 wordsNew Year's Day, being a general holiday, was of course prolifie in matches: but none took place between the crack Elevens of the colony, and therefore but little insight could be gained into the coming great event. In ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 57 wordsThese New Year's Day turf sports came off in due form according to announcement. The weather was all that the most inveterate pleasure seeker could desire; and, of course, it being a general holiday, a very large number ...
Article : 790 wordsON Thursday next the new parliament will assemble for the " dispatch of business," and of a most ardnous and multifarious character will honorable gentlemen find the " business" that will tax the ...
Article : 1,210 wordsOUR first duty for to-day, in the way of racing matters, is to make allusion to an error which by some means unknown to us crept into the A.J.C.'s advertisement of the Metropolitan Maiden Plate; ...
Article : 827 wordsThe pantomime still enjoys uninterrupted success; the curtain on each night of the past week having been drawn up to crowded houses. Wednesday and Thursday evenings were set apart for the particular delectation ...
Article : 351 wordsRACING AT THE MANNING.—During tho late season of holiday making, even the denixens if the far away almost unfindable district of Port Macquarie could not resist the temptation to do a little racing; and accordingly ...
Article : 429 wordsThe early part of the work was, of course, devoted to the good old fashioned custom of bidding adieu to the Old, and welcoming the New, Year. Splendid weather, and various outdoor attractions caused the majority of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 461 wordsTom Cribb had publicly retired from the ring, and for months had been leading a life of total inactivity. Being a general favourite with the public, he was being constantly pressed to drink: it was the right thing to have a ...
Article : 1,004 wordsGENTLEMEN, —I have had such an unmistakeably lazy fit during the holidays, coupled with an amount of varied enjoyment but seldom met with, even by the most inveterate pleasure-seekers, that I quite neglected writing, ...
Article : 2,011 wordsCHRISTMAS SPORTS.—RECKLESS DRIVING.—A picnic party, consisting of Professor Bnshell and a number of his friends, occupying in all three buggies and a light American waggon, were returning from the banks of the ...
Article : 249 wordsTHE MUSEUM.—Among the presentations of natural history noticed by a daily contemporary, a few days since, the following was unintentionally omitted — "By Mr. J. C. WHITE.—The great West Sydney Goose that ...
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Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle (NSW : 1860 - 1870), Sat 5 Jan 1861, Page 2
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