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The wars & local soldiers, 1888

30 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 2

The "Kicker" on the War Path

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 September 1888 · page 4

From the last issue of the Arizona. Kicker we clll the following:- "We notice that some hump-backed cowayd has tacked up a written placard on the post-office door…

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Civil War in Moroccoo

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 September 1888 · page 2

News from Morocco states that the Sultan, who was lately besieged in his palace by robels, has succeeded in cutting his way out of the city, and is now mustering troops to…

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Civil War In Samoa. (Cable to the Herald). Auckland

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 September 1888 · page 2

The Apia correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, writing under date Sept. 3rd, states that a civil war has broken out in Samoa, and that one engagement has taken place, in which several were…

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Suicide on a War Vessel. (From the Echo.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 October 1888 · page 2

An inquiry was held on board H.M.S. Opal on Tuesday morning, before the City Coroner (Mr. H. Shiell, J.P.), into the circumstances attending the death of a man named William Foster Horniman,…

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Suicide on a War Vessel. (From the Echo.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 October 1888 · page 4

An inquiry was held on board H.M.S. [?] (Tuesday [?] rumoured (says [?] Newcastle Herald of yesterday), and the rumour is generally believed, that a change in the…

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Major Dane's Lectures. Naval Battles of American Civil War

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 October 1888 · page 2

MAJOR H. C. DANE, the famed soldierorator, whose lectures here some seven weeks ago were admittedly the finest and most finished addresses ever heard in this district,…

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Conflict Between Soldiers and Navvies in France

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 October 1888 · page 3

An affray took place on Sept. 7, at Allasac, near Limoges, between soldiers and some men engaged in making a railway to Brives, who are on strike. It was resolved by the navvies to hold an open-air…

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The Indian Frontier War

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 21 November 1888 · page 3

News has been received from Calcutta to the effect that the British expeditionary force, which was despatched to the Agror Valley, on the northern…

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Winged Messengers of War

Singleton Argus · Saturday 1 December 1888 · page 1

Carrier pigeons, it is thought, will play an important part in the next great European war. The French Minister of War has just given orders for the organization of the…

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War Predicted

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 December 1888 · page 2

The Sooboda, a Bulgarian journal, published at Sofia, predicts that there will be a great war soon. It advocates alliance between the Balkan States and Turkey…

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