Ireland. War Preparations in Cork
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 7 February 1867 · page 2
Cork, December 4,1866.—At a large meeting of the citizens of Cork the magistrates were requested to memorialize the Government to enrol the loyal people, increase the number of troops, and arrest all suspicious persons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, May 21, 1867. Political Progress and War Rumours
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 May 1867 · page 2
THERE seems to be, to the colonial observer of European and American politics, a singular uncertainty and fluctuation in what is usually styled the "march of progress" in the political…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wanganui. Collision Between the Soldiers and Civilians
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 June 1867 · page 3
PISTOLS AND COFFEE FOR TWO.—There are amongst our defenders of the 18th Royal Irish a few Dick Turpins, who have counterparts amongst all large bodies of men, whether civil…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Soldier's Story. a Tale of the American War. [Selected.]
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 July 1867 · page 6
We worked together in the dark blacksmith's shop, Hank and I. He was a great broad-shouldered young fellow, built like a Hercules— I, despite my toil, slender and fair, and never…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Native Fight Near Waimate.—seven Natives Killkd: Many Wounded. (From the correspondent of the New Zealand Herald.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1867 · page 3
July 12.—The natives commenced fighting in real earnest to-day, and oontinued till dusk; one side had three killed and two wounded, and the othor side three killed and no wounded. The natives from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A New Engine of War
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1867 · page 6
A letter from Heidelborg in the Temps says: —"M. Gustave Struve, the chief of the Baden insurrection of 1848, raises a corner of the veil which covers the new engine of war called the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Indian War in the United States
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 12 October 1867 · page 2
Along with false reports and others much exaggerated, come straggling grains of truth. The recent massaore of Lieuteuant Kidder and a party of ten men on the route from the Platte…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, November 19, 1867. War Prospects
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 November 1867 · page 1
THE news by this mail is of a peculiarly tantalising character. Like the sensation novel published by instalments in some monthly magazine, it breaks off at the point of engrossing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Proposed New War Kit and Accoutrements
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 30 November 1867 · page 3
As the results of the new system of carrying the knapsack and accoutrements are pronounced to be eminently satisfactory, it may be of use to state the principal features of the changes which,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →