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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
2,219 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 111
THE transport of the army by land and sea is the heaviest initial cost of the war. 120 ships, with a million tonnage, carrying the biggest British…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is certainly a crumb of comfort to a man about to fight for country to know that in battle not more than one in every thousand projectiles of all descriptions and weight take…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince of Wales have sent cablegrams to Sir Redvers Buller and to Sir G. S. White, congratulating them on the relieving of Ladysmith…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Rudyard Kipling cables from Capetown that there is an approaching dearth of horses in South Africa, and that increased supplies from Australia should be insisted upon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Further particulars have been received of the British victory at Pieter's Hill, which led to the relief of Ladysmith. Huge boulders sheltered the trenches on the nek leading to Pieter's Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lieutenant Gordon, writing to the Queensland Premier from South Africa, indicates that it is intended to attach mounted troops to all the infantry regiments at the front…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, March 4.—During the siege of Ladysmith 30 officers and 513 men were killed or died from disease, and 70 officers and 520 men were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is fortunate that this war has largely been a working man's war. The ill-treatment of British working men in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The prisoners captured with General Cronje total 4,300. They regard the war [?] hopeless, and say that Cronje deserves shooting. The Boer women…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BY the Union Company's steamer Hauroto, which arrived on Friday from Samoa, there reached Sydney a. party of Samoan men and women who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN view of the tide of emigrants to South Africa which will, no doubt, set in as soon as peace arrives, the following "warning" has been sent by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Official information has been received by the Imperia' Government that Ladysmith has been relived. Major-General Dundonald, in command of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →President Kruger has left Pretoria of confer with President St[?]yn. It is believed that the conference is a preliminary to making peace overtures…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →President Kruger has announced to the burghers that General Cronje surrendered at Modder River because his force ran short of ammunition and of food…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Times says that upon the garrion at Ladysmith being relieved many moving scenes took place. Women and children tearfully grasped the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the capture of Fitters Hill by General Buller's forces there was a terrible conflict. Many Boers were bayonetted. It was the most desperate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Home Government advices that the pay for the new Bushmen's Contingent when serving in Natal or Cape Colony, will be the same as that of the Imperial troops…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE events of the last week have removed all cause for anxiety respecting British supremacy in South Africa, and the feeling of relief is very pronounced…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Now is the time," says the Nowra Leader, "when the war fever is upon us, to interview soldiers." So being aware that Mr. J. Collins, of this town, had been in service in India, we called…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the House of Commons last night Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered his Budget speech. He said that the Government proposed to borrow £85,000,000, whereof…
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