[SYDNEY] Complimentary pic-nic Mr J. G. O’Connor, at Sandringham, near Sans Souci, on Saturday, January 23, 1875.

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[Sydney : s.n.], 1875. Invitation card, 78 x 115 mm; lithograph printed recto only in gold on glossy white lightweight card stock, and annotated in ink no. 90 ; light staining, nicked at bottom corner, verso with residual glue and paper adhesion from where the card was once mounted in an album. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album of mounted printed ephemera compiled by J. G. O Connor (1839-1913), Irish-born Sydney journalist, printer, and politician. From Freeman s Journal (Sydney), 30 January 1875: PICNIC TO MR. J. G. O CONNOR, On Saturday, 23rd instant, a complimentary picnic was given by a large number of his friends to Mr. J. G. O Connor, at Sandringham, Sans Souci. Several omnibuses were engaged, supplemented by private vehicles, to convey the friends to the scene of the festivity. The day was beautifully fine, and everything looked beautiful in that romantic region ; games of cricket, quoits, football, and other athletic amusements were engaged in with much zeal. At 2 o clock, dinner was announced. The chair was taken by Mr. Rubie, with the guest on his right, and the Hon. John Robertson on his left. Mr. M Girr occupied the vice-chair. After the preliminary toasts of the Queen, the Governor c, the health of the honoured guest was proposed in a neat and appropriate speech by the chairman. The toast was drunk amid the most enthusiastic manifestations of applause. Mr. O Connor in responding to the toast said, that after the enthusiastic way in which it had been re

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