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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers
863 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 42 of 44
DE WET and Steyn are in the vicinity of De Wetsdorp, though a small British garrison, with two guns on the heights outside, prevents the Boers occupying…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WALTER SHEPPARD, son of Mr. Sherbourne Sheppard, of Malvern (Vic.), who has been serving with the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, was reported "missing" for some weeks,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →H.M. GUNBOAT Protector, of South Australia, has sailed from Hongkong for Adelaide. The cause of her departure from China is unknown. The Minister at Peking have agreed to insist…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It has been proposed that each public school in Australia be presented with a flag-pole and flag by the Government, in commemoration of the South African campaign. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An [?]ent has taken place at Shanghai which will probably serve to still further complicate the existing delicate situation in China. A number of Britishers recently…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A London correspondent states that the new war book, "Australia at the front," by Mr. Frank Wilkinson, the Daily Telegraph special correspondent at the war, is announced as "in rapid…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LORD Roberts reports that the Transvaal police have been aware for some time of a plot against himself. On the 16th instant they arrested five Italians, four Greeks, and one Frenchman on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Troopers are to be seen everywhere. They are practising the horses to be used by the visiting Imperial troops. It is considered necessary that the horses should be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lord Carrington, for so long the prime favourite ex-Australian Governor, has got himself disliked. For no purpose, apparently, but to advertise his own virtue, he has made…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The astronomical instruments which the early Jesuit missionaries to China erected on the walls of Poking have been removed by Count vou Waldersee. Half of the instruments will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN his farewell army order, Lord Roberts says that he will never forget the noble work of the colonials, and in fact their work in all branches of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A CORPS to bo called the "The Rand Rifles" is being established at Johannesburg. It comprises all British workers on the field between certain ages…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An immense crowd of people assembled to-day to welcome home the returning soldiers by the Harlech Castle. The troops came by special train from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dean Farrar has an article in The North American Review on Imperialism and Christianity,' in which he reasons with those who have scruples against war, under any circumstances. He admits the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The United States Secretary of State has agreed at Great Britain's instance to demand exemplary punishment and acknowledgement of the liability of the Chinese to pay…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DE WET has crossed the Orange River into Northern Cape Colony. General Knox is in hot pursuit. Loyalists of all classes in Aliwal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Imperial Parliament met on Wednesday. The Queen's speech was the shortest on record. It stated that Parliament…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nothing could exceed the warmth of the welcome extended to the Australian troops who arrived from South Africa by the steamer Harlech Castle. The crowd in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MAJOR GENERAL PAGET had a four days' fight with Commandant Viljoon and 2500 Boers, who had five guns, two pompoms, and a maxim. On the third day the New Zealanders, under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FRIENDLY Chinese warn the Allies of a fresh outbreak in the winter, and to refrain from send-small expeditions to the interior. At the Criminal Court on Wednesday, a youth…
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