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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
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The St. James Gazette, London, publishes a special letter from a correspondent, who states that the Boers in the Transvaal are making headlong…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Several Spanish army oflicers have been court-martialled at Madrid for surrendering the town to the Americans. They declared Santiago was defenceless,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Fort Mahonga yesterday the local torpedo corps was detailed to remove an electric lighting plant which had outgrown its usefulness. During the operations it was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible tragedy was enacted at Pyrmont last night over a disputed courtship. A man named Sydney Giblett it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Portnguese officials at Delagoa Bay, on the eastern coast of South Africa and the nearest port to the Transvaal Republic, have prevented the landing of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The situation with regard to the Transvaal is to-day very black. The Rand Post, a Johannesburg paper, declares that the stoppage of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Recently, a writer in "Blackwood" aptly described Dreyfus as "the negative ruler of France," but the positive ruler of the Republic at the present moment is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Although the report that Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Golonies actually replied to President Kruger refusing to relinquish tho British…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The army reservists at Natal have been warned to held themselves in readiness. The Germans at Johannesburg are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THERE is a very great deal in a name. Our reports of South African movements and references to it are sprinkled with the word " uitlandor." If we would just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A startling rumour is current to the effect that the Governor had received a cable from Mr Chamberlain, announcing that war with the Transvaal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fiction which has somehow or other taken held of the public mind is the belief that the principal berths in the diplomatic service are filled by such scions of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The correspondence between Great Britain and the Transvaal has been read publicly in the Volk[?]raad. Mr Conyngham-Greene informed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The reply of the Transvaal Government to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's latest despatch has been received in Downing-street. It is asserted to be of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From the tone of our telegrams it would appear that the threatened war is inevitable. There will be no drawing back on the part of England, and we are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Spanish court-martial sitting at Madrid has found Admiral Montojo guilty of surrendering Cavite, in the Philippines, to Admiral Dowey without…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three British soldiers have died suddenly at Aldershot from the effects of ptomaine poisoning, after having partaken of some cheese. The cheese is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Other soldiers at Aldershot have been affected by the ptomaine poisoning, for which New Zealand cheese is suspected. There are now 20 men in the hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The prohibition which was placed upon the consumption of New Zealand cheese at Aldershot, owing to the poisoning of several soldiers, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The British interim despatch was read in the Transvaal Volksr[?]d, and President Kruger intended to reply yesterday…
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