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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
190 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 10
Drought is still with us in its full sorority. This district is in a most deplorable state;. there is not a. sign of, pasture to be seen for miles around. The hest is intense— on Sunday the glass went up to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Linesman" writes in Blackwood's Magazine for November on the recent German Army manceuvres. Discussing the differences between the German soldier and Tommy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Captain Carus Bentley of the Eleventli artillery regulars limped down the gangway from tlie transport and stepped on pier 19 with the vague,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seven hundred thousand pound have already been paid to Cape loyalists, as compensation for losses during the war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Johannesburg correspondent of the Daily Mail states that the contribution of the Orange River Colony to the war expenditure will be £5,000,000, and that a loan of a similar amount, guaranteed by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The war tax has been approved by the South African mining houses in London. Ten millions of the sum was warranted in ten minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A glorious April morning. The sun shone brightly on the rnin drops that glittered like diamonds on the tiny blades of grass, which were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Milne has written a very touching analysis of the soldier's, temperament in his "Epistles of Atkins." (Fisher Unwin). This is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, January 16.—Though Mr. Chamberlain has postponed the official announcement respecting the £30,000,000 war tax, a meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Among those present at the banquet given at Johannesburg in honour of Mr. Chamberlain on Friday were Lord Milner and General Louis Botha. The Mayor of Johannesburg presided, The report of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The st. james gazelle is of the opinion that a thrity—five million three percent. loan will be issued at the end of february, and the first instalment of a four per cent. war loan in january, 1904…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South African files give the follow ing account of the trial, as yet incomplete of a Boer commandant, who cold-bloodedly shot a British officer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A front seat—The seat of war. An English general is, no to say, giving the Boers "some lessons in French." It appears that the Boers are paying the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It is believed that before long there will be an open rupture between the Labour Party and the Political Labour League…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Bitting of the commission appointed to inquire into the conduct of the war in South Africa, Lieutenant Colonel John Adye, C.B., R.A., testified to the lack of a sufficient special staff to deal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following Australian war correspondents have been awarded medals without clasps for service in the South African war:—Donald Macdonald, King, Pontin, Lambio, Wilkinoon, and H. Collin, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colonel M. F. Rimington, the organiser of Rimington's Guides in the South African campaign, in giving evidence before the Royal Commission on the War yesterday, expressed his high opinion of nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following Australian war correspondents have been awarded medals without clasps for service in the South African war:—Donald M Donald,…
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