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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1881

3 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Humour. a Game of Draw. How the Science of Torturs Has Improved Since the Undersigmed War a Boy

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 August 1881 · page 2

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have one of your own extracted. There is no forture so exquisite, no pain no unendurable, as that suffered in a dentist's…

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Sketcher. a Brief History of New Zealand From the Earliest Period. Chapter Y. the Macri War

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 31 August 1881 · page 2

THERE came the blackest p[?] of the history of New Zealand. For years a series of de[?]tory warfare war carried on, never breaking out into actual and declared war,but…

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Mulligan's Wounded Honor

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 3 December 1881 · page 4

IT was hard work for Officer Kelly to keep Owen Mulligan in front of the Jefferson Market court railing yesterday while James Beatly told how he had…

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