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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
2,219 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 26 of 111
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 £35,000,000, whereof…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Lieutenant-General Sir William [?] advancing from Stormberg, has seized Burghers Dorp, about 25 miles to the north, forming the junction of the line to Aliwal North…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN his present temper, John Bull will probably regard the subjugation of the Boers as cheaply accomplished no matter what the cost may…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By an arrangement between the War Department and the Post Office war news is exhibited at the post offices on Sunday mornings. According to a correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Victorian Bushmen's Contingent marked on the steamer Euryalus at Port Melbourne on Saturday, amid scenes of great enthusiasm. In four days the number of applications to Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Some aspects of the cable news received since Saturday appear to promise that complete collapse of the Boer resistance which some sanguine scribes have all along predicted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"When Wounded by the Enemy" is the title of an interesting article in the December Part of Cassell's Saturday Journal. According to the writer: "The personnel of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Some interesting particulars are given concerning the young soldier's position and prospects with the colours, in chamber's Journal for December. During the past year an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Daily Mail states that President Kruger and President Steyn have made audacious overtures to the Marquis of Salisbury, the Premier for peace. They ask for peace on the basis of the republics'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Captain Nicholson, writing from Albany, says the passage so far had proved very rough, but the officers of the ship had been extremely kind. Many of the men had suffered rather severely from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, continued the British and colonial bankers respecting the issue of the war loan…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Brabant's force is advancing on Aliwal North. A Boer commando has arrived at Bloemhof to intercept the British…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Roberts telegraphs from Osfontein that yesterday afternoon the enemy occupied a position stretching four miles north and eleven miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The war loan of £30,000,000 has dubbed " Khakis." The serip is quoted at 1¾ to 2 premium, LONDON, Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Times' correspondent expects the submission of the Orange Free State. General Joubert has gone to Pretoria…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—When reading you Gundy correspondent's furious attack, I congratulated myself that I was not in his presence, as in that case he would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CAPTAIN Arthur Fitzpatrick, who is with General Buller's forces in Natal, has written a letter to Mr. Wise, M.L.A., in which he detar's the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →President Kruger is very active just now spurring on the enemy. Recently he appeared at the front in the northern part of Natal, wearing a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The 6th division of the Army Corps, commanded by Lieutenant-General Kelly-Kenny, and a cavalry force under Lieutenant-Colonel R. G. Broadwood, fought a severe and successful engagement at…
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