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Illawarra · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1858

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Russell's Pictures of the Scene of War

Illawarra Mercury · Monday 21 June 1858 · page 1

Mr Russell, the Times' correspondent, gives the following pictures from the seat of war. He writes from the camp at Buthurah, nine miles from Lucknow, 2nd March. We will first give his…

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Burning of the Black-ball Clipper-ship Eastern City. From Liverpool to Melbourne. Miraculous Escape of Two Hundred and Twenty-six Persons

Illawarra Mercury · Monday 15 November 1858 · page 4

On Saturday evening last, the transport ship Merchantman, Captain G. F. Brown, of and from London to Calcutta, with troops, put into Table Bay, for the purpose of landing the officers, crew,…

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