Asa rule, Roberts can give the best Victorian billiard players five hundred points, pass them at seven hundred, and score out before they have reached eight hundred. Snow in Australia.—There was a heavy fall of snow on the elevated parts of the colony. At Ballarat there was over a foot of snow. This afforded a fine opportunity for the questionable game of snowballing everybody and everything. To such an extent was it carried on that the tradespeople of Barry’s Reef had to put up their shutters to save their windows. Anything in the shape of a “ stove pipe "bat, however, seemed to be the favorite object of attention to the snowballcrs.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 407, 6 September 1876, Page 2
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111Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 407, 6 September 1876, Page 2
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