The International Tugof-war Contest
THERE was an enormous attendance at the international tug-of-war at the Melbourne Exhibition on Saturday night. Following, are the results:—…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1892
51 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 3
War among Frogs
Many of the citizens of Vermont will remember to have seen on one-dollar bills of the Windham Oounty State bank a vignette representing frogs fighting. This was engraved…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Without Bloodshed
Is is well known that nitric of amyl possasses being breathing its fumes very human being breathing its fumes very quickly. The effect is squivalent,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →International Tug of War
THE movement for the inauguration of a grand international "tug of war" in Sydney on a similiar or even larger scale than that which is at the present…
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AT a meeting hold at the Jersey evening it was decided to make the nces sary arrangements for a tug-of- war contest between teams representing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tug-of-war
Entries for this event, which takes place on Thursday night, as per advertisement, close on Monday evening next. So far quite a variety of teams have signified…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Strength of Europe
Gen. Laczizinsky, late of the 9th Army Corps of the German army, contributes an article to the January Deutsche Revue, giving his opinion as to the prospects of European peace, the present…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Tug-of-War
The great tug-of-war tournament at the Darlinghurst hall, Sydney, concluded on Tuesday night, with the following results: —Sweden 8 wins, Ireland 7 wine, Russia…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Soldier's Joke
Nearly a hundred years ago, when the French Directory was just beginning to establish some sort of order in France after the dreadful overturn of the Revolution, a line of soldiers stood ranged with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tug-o'-war Contest
FOR some time past a good deal of interest has been exercised in various parts of the district concerning the probabilities of the result of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fifty Lashes. a Maori War Incident. in Four Chapters. Chapter I.
A full summer moon overhead, casting bars of soft sheen athwart the trees in the public Domain, Auckland, New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A War-time Christmas
Some of the scouts had brought in word that a guerrilla leader whom we had long sought to kill or capture was at a farm-house five miles away having only a man or two with him. The orders…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fifty Lashes. a Maori War Incident. in Four Chapters. Chapter Iii.-(continued.)
In our last number Bob Cable had decided that there was something wrong going on, and that he would sea Major Bartoff…
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We all remember Virgil's vivid description of the Cave of the Winds where King Æolus sat on a lofty throne of rock, and with the waving of his potent sceptre calmed the fury of the imprisoned…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Praises of War
All healthy men like fighting and like the sense of danger ; all brave women like to hear of their fighting and of their facing danger, says Mr. Ruskin, who has taken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Next Great War
At a recent sitting of the German Reichstag, in reply to a question by Dr. Endemann, with reference to Billroth's much-discussed lecture, says the British Medical Journal, Major Gaede said he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further Particulars. the Killed and Wounded
Further particulars to hand states that Messrs. W. H. Simmons, of Sydney, and J. Richards, of Milthorpe are very seriously injured and not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Smash on the Western Line. 10 Killed and Many Wounded. Shocking Details
A special message received from our Sydney correspondent last Wednesday morning intimated that the fatal railway accident which occurred near…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Anarchist War. Terrible Vengeance Against a Witness. a Restaurant Wrecked. London, April 26
The house of Very, who is the chief witness in the forthcoming trial in Ravachol, leader of the anarchists of Paris, has been the scene of a dynamite…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sworn to No Master, of No Sect Am I. Be Just and Fear Not. The Singleton Argus Wednesday, May 1[?], 1802. Fan Electoral Tug-of-war
THAT superlatively presumptive political organisation which has been vohemently endeavouring to make it self conspicuous under the title of the "The…
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