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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
2,219 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 111
The Times correspondent telegraphs that very heavy artillery firing was heard on Monday in the direction of Springfield, which was recently occupied by General Sir Sir Redvers Buller. The censorship…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colonel J. M. Babington and Lieutenant-Colonel T. D. Pilcher, with squadrons of the 9th and 12th Lancers, Captain D. M'Levish, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Part of the war news we print to-day brings very close to the community of Maitland the sadder aspects of a campaign. Of course the brave men who went from among us took…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The N.S. Wales Mounted Rifles, in company with Major Remington's corps, drove a party of Grizualand Vest rebels from Prieska Drift,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Washington Bureau of Ordnance recently issued some interesting statistics of the details of the cost to the United States of annihilating the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is reported that Mafeking was safe on January 6. The bombardment of the town has been resumed. Major-General Sir Frederick Carr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ThE Times states that Lord Duadonald made a dashing movement on the lOth, and occupied the hills above Potgeiter's Drift, completely surprising the Boers, The British infantry then immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mrs. G. M. Scott, East Maitland, asks us to print the following letter from Mrs. Waller, of Parramatta, which explains itself:— Parkside, Parramatta,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Many Boers have left Stormberg and have gone to Colesberg. A French prisoner at Ladysmith said the Boers visited their farms in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CABLE messages of the week about the war have been undoubtedly interesting, though they do not definitely narrate any decided movement. In Natal Sir Redvor's Buller's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woolwich Arsenal is says the Times of India) a busy place always (although it is said that a few months ago a fire-eating official of this gigantic…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This hymn, specially written by the Rev. Walter J. Mathams, F.R.G.S., author of "Comrades All" and "Jack Ahoy," was sung at a sacred concert given in the Empire Palace Theatre, Edinburgh,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In the Nineteenth Century for December, Mr. Sidney Low contributes a pessimistic paper on South African problems. He tells us that when the war is over and the British flag waves over all…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →General Joe Wheeler,of Alabama, a Southern cavalry leader, delights to tell of the meeting between two veterans of opposing sides in a New York beer garden. They had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Standard's correspondent at Frere states that prior to Saturday's battle President Kruger sent a communication to the Boer head quarters asking why Ladysmith had not been attacked. He was told…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Times states that Lord Dundonald made a dashing movement on the 10th, and occupied the hills above Potgeiter's Drift, completely surprising the Boers. The British infantry then immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Talking of the possibilities of a European war, Prince Bismarck forecast the financial aspect of it with his usually broad view of things. "It would mean,"…
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