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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
637 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 32
To-day's news only records the bitter if not savage intensification of Boer feeling against the British women and children. In 1882 the Boer[?] refuted all hospitality to British travellers, even…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This is the subject of an interesting paper in the double July number of Pearson's Magazine, by Mr, Marcus Tindal, describing" the various courses of instruction through winch…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Boer war has now developed into one with the Orange Free State also, and with almost the whole pro-Dutch population in South Africa. The Free Staters have made a big mistake, and we must…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During one of the war scares in which England has indulged any time these twenty years, a couple of her Majesty's gunboats were watching the Australian coast, or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Prince Christian, who is taking his usual cure at Kissingen, had an amusing adventure there the other day (relates M.A.P.)., Mr. Alcock, the well-known secretary of the Surrey Club, knowing his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT is no use now raking up the past. It is easy to be wise after the event, but we cannot refrain from recalling one, of a number of warnings which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The [?] is aroused at last, after all efforts for peace, combined with justice and honour, having tailed. Boer insults to our women and children, the action of Boer statement in advancing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miss Tierney, of the Freemason's Arum [?]n, John-street, has kindly favoured us with the per[?]l of a letter from her brother, who is on a station—"Braeside"—between 700 and 800 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A cable message has been received by Admiral Pearson, stating that war with the Transvaal is in existence from to-day. Later…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. F. W. Reitz, the Boer Secretary of State telegraphed to Sir Alfred Milner on the 9th instant, stating that the British troops now on the frontier wensced the independence of the Transvaal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Admiral Pearson has received a cable announcing that war with the Transvaal has been declared. Bishop Green, of Grafton and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. See states that everything possible has been done short of committing the colony to anything, so that there will be not the slightest delay in the event of Parliamentary approval being given to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A CONDITION of war in the Transvaal exists from yesterday, according to the announcement made by Admiral Pearson on the authority of an official cable message. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The correspondent of the Times has made a four days' journey over the country between the Natal border and the Sandspruit River. He reports that he found 8000 Boers encamped in the district he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thursday saw the end of the long suspense about the issue of the Transvaal crisis. A state of war was on that day officially declared to be in existence. What led up to the decision…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Boers are rapidly invading Natal via Laing's Nek, the Dundee-Glancee railway, Roonan's Pace, and Olive's Hook or Gorge, near the town of Colense, on the Natal side of the Drakensberg…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Admiral of the British Squadron in Australian waters signalled on Thursday afternoon that war has been commenced but ween the Transvaal and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have received from the Proprietor of the N.S.W. B[?]ks[?] Co, a handsome war map of SOuth Africa, printed in four colors, showing the relation of the Transvaal to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A cause message has been received by Admiral Pearson, stating that war with the Transvaal is in existence from today. Later…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Thursday we received the following telegram from Sydney, and it was promptly issued as an extraordinary in the town :— " Rear-Admiral…
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