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The wars & local soldiers, 1864

14 stories in Murray's papers

The War in America. Per Greville and Bird (REUTER’s AGENTS)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 2 January 1864 · page 2

Captain W. R. Turner, of the schooner Roslyn, which left San Francisco on the 17th October, but brings no papers later than the 14th October, reports the following to the…

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The War in New Zealand. Sydney, 8th February

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 13 February 1864 · page 2

The Otago brings dates to the 2nd February. The troop ships Armenian and Sea King arrived at Auckland on the 29th January. The escort to the Queen’s Redoubt was fired upon…

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The Prospects of an European War

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 19 March 1864 · page 2

ALTHOUGH the news from America, in which direction we have for the last three years principally looked for bellicose intelligence, by the present mail amounted to almost nothing, there…

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The New Zealand War

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 16 April 1864 · page 4

ON Saturday last news for Auckland to the 2nd instant was received at Sydney. General Cameron was still at Pukarimo. The Maories being in great force at…

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The War with Denmark

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 23 April 1864 · page 4

“Forty-eight hours,” says the London correspondent of the [?], “subsequently to the despatch of the latest intelligence last month, by telegram [?] Malta, the peace of Europe…

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The War in New Zealand

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 23 April 1864 · page 3

THE “Auckland” brought advices on Monday from the seat of war to the 8th. At Orakau the troops on the 31st March sapped gradually up to the pa, when the rebels made an attempt to escape, but were quickly…

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Probability of a Civil War in Germany

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 30 April 1864 · page 4

The Times of 25th, Feb. in a leading article of considerable power thus refers to the retribution which the alleged shameful conduct of Germany is provoking:—…

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By Electric Telegraph Sydney. Friday Evening the War in New Zealand

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 14 May 1864 · page 2

Auckland 5th May:—Three more officers have died of [?] received at Tauranga. The native loss is less than previously [?]…

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The War in Denmark

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 4 June 1864 · page 4

[We have been often asked what the war in Denmark is about. The following article from the London Times, written in the style of the Thunderer, will possibly, afford a good…

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The Border “War.”

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 11 June 1864 · page 2

THEY are a practical and progressive race these Victorians, seldom omitting an opportunity of “improving the occasion” to their own advantage. Riverina is already a mine of wealth to them in…

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The American War

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 6 August 1864 · page 3

The following news has arrived via Sydney :— It is believed that Lee has been largely reinforced from General Beauregard’s army. The Monitors have again commenced operations…

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A Danish Soldier

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 13 August 1864 · page 4

When called on to serve, he had already taken the degree of Batchelor of Divinity, and although, at that time, substitutes were to be had at a reasonable price, he would not…

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Peace or War. (From the Times.)

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 20 August 1864 · page 3

The question divested of the obscuring circumstances which months of discussion and passionate recrimination have thrown round it, is simply this: Is England bound by positive stipulations, or morally,…

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The Border War

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 31 December 1864 · page 4

THE Bolder War is being mismanaged. Mr. Martin precipitated the crisis by his ill-advised diplomacy, and the subordinates are but following in his footsteps. It was never intended…

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