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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
57 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 3
"Tell ye what bhoys! I kud stan' eny amount o' good, hard, sinsible foightin'; bud this skulkin' an' hoidin' among sthones an' scrub is fair sappin' the loife o' me. Here we are in this bit o' a gully…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"WAR has broken out in Samoa. The white residents are much alarmed because Mataafa has threatened that if successful he will loot the town,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Turn we away now from all the sanguinary horrors of the last chapter, and seek amid more humane scenes an antidote for our shattered nerves. We are not the description of writer who rejoice in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ADVICES received from Samoa to the 19th July state that fighting had taken place between King Malictoa and Mataa[?]a. The foreign men-of-war at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The British warship Apollo, which was engaged in the recent channel man[?]uvres, has not returned to port, and fears are entertained for her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lieutenant Brereton, of the United States Army, discusses, in an exchange, the advantages and drawbacks of the bicycle for was purposes. He says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. George P. Hogan, now residing at Auckland, New Zealand (says Truth), enlisted in the 19th Regiment in November, 1852, at the age of eighteen. "He served as an N.C.O. through the Crimean…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During the stay of the Rupertswood Battery of Horse Artillery in England and Ireland the members of the team had a taste of true barrack life, as at the outset no detail in military routine was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Where the wild winds sadly moan Through the leaves of the cypress, sad and lone, There is the soldier's grave; Where the grass grows bright and green…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →INTELLIGENCE of the accidental explosion of a gun and the loss of four lives on board the French warship Duguay Trouin, resulting in the loss…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Jassy correspondent of the Standard sends an account, prepared from the observations of an eyewitness, of the military preparations which Russia feels called upon to make along her western and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE cholera is causing great mortality in Arabia. It is reported that of 700 Egyptian soldiers sent to Mecca, 500 died of the discase within…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MRS C. JENKINS, wife of the Road Superintendent at Inverell, and a daughter of Mr A. Wyndhaum, was shot in the head whilst in bed with her…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ACCORDING to telegrams from The Cape, the Matabele impis attacked a patrol in Bccuanaland, but dispersed on being tired upon. King Lobengula…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LATEST telegraphic advices from South Africa report that Lobengula, King of the Matabeles, is sending away his property along the Zambesi. He has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LATEST advices from Capetown report that the advance of the Boer force under Commander Raaffa to the relief of the British South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MOST people who read at all remember Daniel Webster's poetically happy method of depicting the extent of the Britiah Empire. The drumbeat of her sentinels greets the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is [?]noured in Johannesburg, the chief town of the Transvaal, that a column of Boers which had gone to the assistance of the British South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following remarks by the Herald's English correspondent, and especially those touching the visit, of the French fleet to Toulon, should be read with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DETAILS have been received of the defeat inflicted on the Matabele forces by the British troops near the Indiamas Mountains. The Matabele…
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