The Liquor War
N.S, Wales will be well represented in England during the coming liquor war which is to be waged in consequence of the British Prender's prourised liquor legislation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1908
62 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 4
Veteran Soldiers
LONDON, Wednesday.—Lord Roberts has appealed to the nation to subscribe funds for the rescue of Crimean and Indian veterans from the workhouses…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Welcome Home
The Presbyterian congregation, at Maclean tendered the Rev. Mr. Neal a welcome home on Friday evening, after an absence on a five months' holiday. The church was nicely filled…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War Cloud
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Disquieting reports are being recived regarding the position in the Philippines. News from Manilla states that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Frontier War. London
Colonel Rees Keppel's column, from Lundi Kotal, has joined forces with General Willcock's unopposed. The British have now occupied most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Japanese War Unlikely
The Pilgrims entertained Mr. Whi[?]elaw Reid, Ambassador for the United States to Great Britain, at New York, [?] the [?] of his return to London…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thirty Years' War
Lieutenant-General J.B. van Heutsz, the Governor-General of the Dutch indies, has gone on a special mission to Achia, an unpacined district in the north of the island of Sumatra…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What Is Happening in Japan. the War Against-w[?]tes
F.A. McKenzie (London "Dally Mail" Special Correspondent in the Far East) writes:- The train from Seoul to Fusan was five…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Lost in Snow
The 20th Company of the 1st Foreign Legion was overwhe[?]ed by a snowstorm while marching from Berguent to Fort Hassa, in Algeria…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Appalling Railway Disaster. Passenger Trains Collide. Injured Passengers Roasted to Death. 41 KILLED. 60 Wounded. Sydney, Tuesday, 8.30 a.m
One of the most appalling railway accidents in the history of Australia occurred at Braybrook (Victoria) last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dead and Wounded
When the first mortuary train arrived in Melbourne the scene was most painful. Ambulance waggons were drawn up in readiness; stretchers were ominously laid…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Indian Frontier. War Against Tribesmen. London
Brigadier-General Sir James Wilcocks (who recently conducted a successful expedition, against the Zakka Khel tribe) will command the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wounded Heart Sewn Up
An astounding surgical operation is reported by Professor Suitan in the "German Medical Weekly." The heart of a man who attempted suicide by firing, a bullet into it was taken out and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Weapon that Will Prevent War
Following on the invention of a noiseless rifle which Mr. Hiram Percy Maxim, son of Sir Illram Maxim, considers will revolutionise warfare, comes the announcement of the construction of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Soldier of Fortune. a Tale of the Crimea. Chapter Iii. (Continued)
Brief was the repose which Charles Vavasseur, probably for years, and possibly for over, enjoyed under the roof of his father. At a[?] early hour he left his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain's Briefest War
The frontier war which has just ended with the submission of the Zakka Khels, after lasting exactly 16 days enjoys the distinction of being the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Rules of War
Mr. Swift MacNeill's dignified protest against the fairness of sending 6000 troops to fight 4000 Zakka khels has caused "Books of To-day,"…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Frontler War Ended
LONDON, Wednesday.—All the Mohmands have submitted, and the frontler war is at an end. In the last engagemtn with the British force, under Major-General…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Future Soldiers
Five battalions of cadets, comprising 2000 units, went into camp at Parramatta on Tuesday. Four battalions are composed solely of boys form the metropolitan…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brothers at War. Peculiar Case at Grafton
At Graft on recently the District Coroner conducted an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the destruction of a camp by fire at Swan…
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