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The wars & local soldiers, 1869

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The New Zealand War

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 March 1869 · page 2

THE Otago journals contain telegrams from Wellington to the 4th instant, which state :— The rivers at Wanganui are so flooded as to cause the suspension of all operations…

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The New Zealand War. the Massacre of Mr. and Mrs. Lavin and Family. Mohaka Settlement Destroyed by the HAU-IIAUS.(From the Wellington Evening Post, April 11.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 8 May 1869 · page 3

IN TELEGRAMS received from Napier to-day Mr. Donald M’Lean states that Mohaka has been surprised by the Hau-haus. Some settlers are supposed to be killed, and fourteen kegs of…

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The Paraguayan War

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 29 May 1869 · page 4

NOTHING in the history of modern warfare is more remarkable than the extraordinary and almost unparalleled devotion to Lopez displayed by the Paraguayans. That singular…

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Political Disturbances in France. Numbers Killed and Wounded. 500 Persons Arrested.[reuter’s Latest Telegram to Geeville’s Telegram Company.].paris, May 14

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 19 June 1869 · page 3

GREAT disturbances have occurred at the election meetings. The police restored order. At the meeting addressed by M. Ollivier, at other places, violent collisions took place…

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Arrival of the English Mail. Per Geelong. News four weeks from England. Irish Church Bill Passed the Commons But Likely to Experience Opposition in the Lords — Providing for War with America—great Riots in Paris Rebellion in Russia — Ireland in a Disturbed State. by Special Express to the News

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 10 July 1869 · page 2

TUESDAY’S Herald contains a Telegraphic Summary of the news from England to June 11th. The following is the substance of that Telegram, with the addition of items taken from private…

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