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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers
43 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 3
Endeavours have been made to effect a compromise between the Turks and Greeks in regard to disputed territory in Thessaly. Proposals were made by the former with a view of bringing about an amicable…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GERMANY and Russia are both pushing forward experiments in flying machines for use in war or otherwise. It appears that the direction in which these are working is the only one likely to be successful…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is understood that the transport service being now in efficient working order a general forward movement of troops of the first division of the army, under Sir Garnet Wolseley, will take place on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is stated that several officers of the Turkish army who are now in Egypt have placed their services at the disposal of Arabi Pasha, and are at present with the Egyptian army at Tel-el-Kebir…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN official dispatch from Sir Garnet Wolseley to the Home Government confirms the news of the recent victory. Arabi's force consisted of about 20,000 regular…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The British cavalry entered Cairo last night, after a rapid march from Belbeis. The native garrison was completely taken by surprise at the sudden appearance of the British, and surrendered without…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ghemilch, situated on the seaward side of Lake Mengaleh, continues to hold out against the British, A summons has accordingly been despatched, calling upon the garrison to surrender, and failing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Bishop of Holbourne (says the Argus) was the preacher on Sunday morning at St. Mark's Church, Fitzroy, and there was a very large congregation. The right reverend prelate took his text from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Be just in all you say, and all you do: Whatever be your birth, you're sure to be A peer of the first magnitude to me.—DAYDEN. THE village of Harleyford, in Suffolk, at the time…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Good unexpected—evils unforeseen, Appear by turns as fortune shifts the scene; Some praised aloft, come tumbling down amian, Their fall so hard, they bound and rose again.—VIRGIL…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR GLADSTONE'S speech, delivered after the bombardment of Alexandria, is an unanswerable defence of England's policy. While a European conference was striving to induce the Sultan to suppress military…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A testy gentleman, quick at offence, His outside rough, harsh, and unpromising. The Inner man melting with life's sweet charities. OLD PLAY…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →'Do yon know where your late master is?' said the baronet, as the lad stood bowing and scraping at the door of the library. 'Gone to Lunnon, Sir Edward,' was the reply…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR. CAMERON, of the London Standard, has rivalled the finest exploits of MacGuhan and Forbes. At Kassassin (according to a home paper), with the skilful prescience which is not the least of the gifts…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JACK began to entertain serious thoughts of enlisting for a soldier, going to sea, or doing anything equally rash, as he followed his new friend out of the court…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →OUR hero instantly commenced a plain, and, considering his years of experience, a not very prolix statement of his affairs, which, as our readers are already acquainted with, we shall spare them the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →COLONEL WOLSELEY'S EARLY LIKE.—How curious is time's whirligig, and the changes it brings! In 1882 Wolseley is on the high road to a p[?]erage, and possibly to a field-marshal's baton. About 1854 he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JACK CURLIN looked exceedingly sheepish, when, in obedience to the summons he had received, he entered into the drawing-room. His face was red as scarlet, and he kept twisting and turning his hands…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Look, look! the summer rises in her cheeks; A blush as hot as June, comes flooding o'er Her too proud paleness. Burning modesty Warms all her brow, and beauty, quite abash'd…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Suspicion is a heavy armour; and With its own weight impedes more than it protects.—BYRON. The Government of Russia may be defined by one emphatic word—terror. It is the means by which…
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