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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
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A heliograph message has been received by Lord Methuen at Modder River from Kimberley stating that the citizens are determined to endure any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Hanoverian on Colonel Villeboiss Marenil's Staff declares that these are 10,000 trained European soldiers and 300 officers assisting the Boers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Definite statements have reached Durban to the effect that General Sir Redvers Buller's column has crossed the Tugels. Some accounts allege that the forces have gone in the direction of Acton Holmes,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The New South Wales Patriotic Fund has now reached £17,481. The contributions to the Bushmen's Contingent Fund amount to £25,944…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The South African war continues to " shade" all matters of merely local interest, whether political or economic. But we are getting sadly weary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A heliograph message has been received by Lord Methuen at Modder River from Kimberley staling that the citizens are determined to endure any…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We find in the London Daily Mail the following special hymn, to be sung in time of war, composed by the Rev. Courtenay Gale, vicar of Christ Church Sutton. The Bishop of Rochester has approved…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THERE is an entire absence of news from the scat of war. It has been ascertained that forty British soldiers, reported killed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following pastoral letter has been writton by the Bishop of Newcastle to the clergy of the Newcastle Diocese:— " Probably you have seen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lieutenant-General French has despatched an overwhelming force to seize Norval's Pont, on the Orange Free State frontier, with the object of cutting off the Boers' retreat. Reinforcements will be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Amongst the applications for service with the South Australian Bushmen's Corps was the following, in a disguised handwriting:—"To the secretary Bushmans Kontingunt, Hadelaide, January…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following letter has been addressed to the ministers of the Wesleyan Church by the ex-president of the Conference, the Key. E. J. Rodd, acting on behalf of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEWS reached Molong on Tuesday of a fatal stabbing af[?] at Camncek, about 17 miles from Molong. It appears that a heated argument was in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Both Lord Roberts and Sir Redvers Buller are busy playing the game of bluff with the enemy, and the British public are again proving calm and doubly courageous and determined under adversity. We must all be content to see ultimate success…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lieutenant-General White, commanding at Ladysmith, has heliographed that the garrison and townsfolk were elated on Saturday at hearing the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RESUMING the debate on the Addressin-Reply, Mr George Wyndham, Parliamentary Under Secretary for War, stated in the House of Commons on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the House of Commons last night the debate on the Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne was resumed. On the motion for the adoption of the Address Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Standard states that Major-General Hector MacDonald's Highland Brigade, with a field battery and the 9th Lancers, occupied kopjes and a dam to north-west of Spytfontein, with scarcely any…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RUMOUR has for once been borne out by fact. General Buller has crossed the Tugela with a large army, and may be said with truth, we fancy, to be fighting his way to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Capetown correspondent says:—"The offers of the Australian colonies to send further contingents have been welcomed here, as tending to increase our strength in cavalry, for the work of which arm…
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