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The wars & local soldiers, 1868

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The Politician. the First Vote for the Abyssinian War

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 14 March 1868 · page 4

THE Chancellor of the Exchequer has accomplished the object for which Parliament was summoned to meet at this unusual period, and a vote of credit for two millions sterling,…

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The Abyssinian War

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 13 June 1868 · page 3

The Abyssinian war is over. -A decisive battle was fought during-a violent -storm of rain and thunder on Easter Monday, at a place called Duna, in Anagee valley the…

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Later From England. Arrival of the Mail . Via Suez. Decisive Battle in Abyssinia— the War Over—the King Com- Mitted Suicide -All the "Prisoners Released. News of the Attack on Prince Alfred Received in England.the Ministry Resigned—resignation Refused by the Queen —An Appeal to the People— Supplies Stopped

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 13 June 1868 · page 3

NEWS via Suez, was 'received in Sydney on Sunday night last. LONDON, APRIL 24 The Prince and Princess of Wales have…

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The War in New Zealand. Latest From Napier—repulse of Colonel Whitmore (From the Wellington Independent.)Napier, Friday, 14th August

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 29 August 1868 · page 2

THE Colonial Forces, numbering 130 men, under Colonel Whitmore, marched the 6th, without horses, to endeavor to overtake the rebels—and on the 8th, overtook them in strong force at the…

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Stories for the Fireside. Five Brothers’ Five Fixes. Harry the Soldier’s [?]

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 26 September 1868 · page 4

BEFORE I begin to lay before the reader the fix which our brother Harry described to us being the biggest be had ever met with, I would just mention that he had two little…

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Arrival of the Suez Mail News to September 1st Wool Lower Queen in Switzerland Insane Intended Assassin Arrested War Between France and Germany Imminent Awful Railway Accident Outrages and Murders in Tipperary Duke of Edinburgh at Paris to Leave for the East in October Fire at St. Petersburgh Panama Mail Streamer Broke Down Great Fire at Southwark Atlantic Cable Broken Exciting Stowaways Incident

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 3 October 1868 · page 3

Maitland Mercury office, Monday noon We have received the following important mail telegram from our Sydney correspondent The Bombay left Galle on the 8th and…

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Terrible Earthquakes in Peru and Ecuador. Thousands of Lives Lost. Cities, Villages, and Towns in the Interior and on the Coast in Ruins. Three Men-of-war and Many Mercantile Ships Lost. Peru

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 17 October 1868 · page 1

WHEN the mail left us on the 14th instant we little thought what a sad story we should have to write by to-day’s steamer—the story of a calamity so widespread and so awful in…

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