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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
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IT is pretty clear now that Lord Chelmsford, as general commanding the British forces in Natal, is not the right man for the place. He is not strong enough. The disaster at Isandula…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OUR latest mail dates are April 11. The newspapers contain reports of the debates on the Zulu war, which resulted in both Houses in a victory for the Government. During…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London, May 2nd.—A Cape Town dispatch of April 15th, says: Dubalimanzi, who led the attack on Ginglelova on April 3rd, and other chiefs with a large army following, have…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →On May 6 the Union Company's Royal Mail steamship German arrived in Plymouth Sound. She left the Cape on April 15, and brings detailed accounts of the battle of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following extracts are from a letter by Bishop Colenso, which appears in the Daily News: We are now engaged in a war, not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HISTORY abounds with instances, where whole communities, or certain classes of citizen, have been driven suddenly from their homes to seek an asylum in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cape Town, Tuesday, May 20, noon (via Plymouth). Another week has passed, and we have still no news of any advance. Transport is the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A supplement to the London Gazette of May 20 contains various despatches respecting the military operations at the Cape. Under date Durban, April 14, Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Some time ago the Aborigines' Protection Society brought before Sir Michael Hicks-Beach the conduct of the Rev. George Brown, of Duke of York Island, in making war upon…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE Bishop of Peterborough, in proposing "The Army, the Navy, and the Reserve Forces," at a dinner over which he presided on Saturday, said:—I am…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chicago, May 18.—A new cattle war has broken out between the railroads and the "evoners." The disruption of the Ring has involved the shippers of live stock in a war…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The advance from Fort Pearson to Fort Chelmsford has commenced; General Crealock was to go forward. Several bodies of Zulus are reported in the vicinity of his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Washington, June 24.—The following circular was issued by the Secretary of the Treasury: This department has received information…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The visit of an Austrian war ship to Port Jackson is a novel occurrence indeed, and the presence of the Heligoland, which arrived yesterday (says the Echo of Saturday), is to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following account of the last great battle with the Zulus has been telegraphed from Adelaide to the Melbourne Argus:— An interesting narrative of the battle of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Will the sword of England never be sheathed? Must she go on for over shedding the blood of her bravest sons in punishing savages and semi-savages…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following additional news is extracted from files of the Cape Standard to September 2, which reached Melbourne by the steamer Rotomahana:—…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Further despatches from the Cape, from Sir Garnet Wolseley, announce that the chiefs have accepted and signed the conditions of peace…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"The destiny of nations," says BrillatSavarin, "depends upon the food they eat." This aphorism must have been in Sir Garnet Wolseley's mind when he arranged that the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →At the present moment the following remarks on the late war with Afghanistan (made by Lord Cranbrook, Secretary for India, at the Crystal Palace, on July 16) will…
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