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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
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Sir,—I notice in your report of the meeting of the West Maitland Borough Council the majority of aldermen present voted for the acceptance of the pro-Boer petition, which is now being put in circulation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Wolmarans and Mr. Wessels, two of the Boer Delegates in Europe, will confer with Mr. Kruger at [?]cht. Dr. Leyds, the Transvaal agent in Europe,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Gunnedah Advertiser publishes the following letter from Trooper Bowen:—"Dear Father and Mother,—Just a few lines to let you know I…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eighteen Boers have been cultured westward of Kiorksdorp. Since December twelve thousand natives have arrived in the Rand…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr W. St. John Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, stated last night in the House of Commons that Commandant General Louis Botha…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In his operations against Commandant Kemp in the Western Transvaal Lieutenant-General Sir Ian Hamilton killed 44 Boers, including Commandant Potgieter, and captured 51 men, together with two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE conference of Boer leaders with a view to formulating proposals for pease has reached a highly-important stage. The principal Boer leaders…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The sensational reports current regarding the arrangement, of peace are entirely premature, and responsible circles consider it highly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Democrats of the House, at a caucus held to night, unanimously adopted the following resolutions: —"Resolved, by the Democratic mem…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the House of Commons last night Mr. A. J. Balfour, the First Lord of the Treasury, said that Lord Kitchener communicated on Saturday a message from the Boer delegates in Pretoria. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE debates in the Reichstag on the military estimates give the Social Democrats an opporiunity of again bringing before the House the subject…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, in the course of his Budget speech, said, that the revenue, was buoyant though the value to foreign trade had declined owing to the fall in the price, of coal. The expenditure for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE exaggerated, sensational reports current relative to peace were entirely pr[?]mature. In most responsible circles it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Committee of Supply in the House of Commons last night a resolution sanctioning the issue of a war loan of £32,000,000 was carried by 126 votes, the division being:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. A. J. Balfour, the First Lord of the Treasury stated in the House of Commons last night that he would inform the House immediately he had anything to communicate regarding the negotiations…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Gunnedah Advertiser publishes the following letter from Trooper Bowen:—Dear Father and Mother,—Just a few lines to let you know I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, April 16, 2.50 p.m.— The Boer leaders asked for an armistice ostensibly to communicate with President Kruger. It being suspected…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MORE than sufficient applications have been received for the local section of the Commonwealth Contingent to proceed to South Africa about the end…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another railway disaster, which, although involving the loss of several lives, was happily not so serious as the recent smash at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, April 15.—Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, in tho course of his Budget speech in the House of Commons last night, said that the revenue…
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