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The wars & local soldiers, 1877

220 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 11

Latest Telegrams. Important News by the Suez Mail Health of Her Majesty. Naval Experiments. Home Rule Demonstrations. Potato Disease and Famine. Frozen Meat from South America. The Detectives Conspiracy Case.—Great Excitement. Wreck of the Pacific Co's Steamer Ellen.—114 Lives Lost. Terrible Calamities at Pitsburg Ironworks. £650,000 Presented to the Pope. Reformation of Polish Kingdom. Russian General to be tried by: Court. Misery of Roumanian Refugees. Kossuth's Utterances on the War. Hungarian Sympathy with Turkey. The Indian Famine. Jewish Synagogue Opened. Testimonial to Mr. James Punch. Defeat of New Zealand Government. The Elections and Working Men's Defence Association. Re Navigation of Hunter River. SYDNEY. Recd. Tuesday, 7 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1877 · page 1

NEWS by the Suez mail states that the Queen is in excellent health. The Duchess of Edinburgh is still in Russia…

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Cable Messages. Latest War News. London. October 6

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 October 1877 · page 1

MEHEMET ALI'S recall and Sulieman's transfer to the command of the array at Schumla is generally condemned General Kotzebue is acting as general…

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Cable Messages. Latest War News. Duplicate Cable. English Champion Boat Race. Higgins v. Boyd for £200 A-side. Fresh French Political Complications. Russians Again Repulsed. LONDON. October 8

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1877 · page 1

COLONEL GLOVER is leaving England for Australia, to negotiate for a duplicate cable, offering special privileges to the Press…

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Cable Messages Latest War News. Defeat of the Russians. Advance of the Turkish Troops. Loss of the Jessura; all hands Saved. LONDON. October 18

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 October 1877 · page 1

CHEFKET PASHA, with provisions and munitions of war, has succeeded in joining Osmen Pusha in Plevna. A Russian Official despatch states that…

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Cable Messages Latest War News. Dreadful Colliery Explosion at Wigan. The Indian Famine. Disease among the Roumanians. Russian Success in Asia Minor. Destruction of Inverary Castle. The French Elections. LONDON. October 12th

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 October 1877 · page 2

THERE has been dreadful colliery explosion at Wigan. Forty persons, including three managers, were killed. The Marquis of Salisbury declares the…

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Cable Messages Latest War News. Proposal to Starve the Army of Plevna Deplorable Condition of Garrison. Russians closing in. Promotion for Valour in Russian Army. Turkish Military Stores from America. Violent Storms in United Kingdom Cleopatra's Needle Abandoned in the Bay of Biscay. LONDON, October 17th

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 October 1877 · page 2

GENERAL TODLEBEN proposes to starve out the army in Plevns, which is reported to be thoroughly emaciated. Turkish prisoners declare the condition…

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The Progress of the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 October 1877 · page 2

ONE characteristic at least of the present war is (says the Times) fully ascertained; it will not move fast enough for the impatience of the European public. The…

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Cable Messages Latest War News. Shah of Persia to visit England Great Fire at St John's, New Brunswick. Foreign Masons Outraged by English Roughs. Cleopatra's Needle Recovered. Fresh Attacks on Plevna. Fearful Repulse of Turks in Asia Minor. 18,000 Prisoners Captured. 40 Cannon taken. Porte Sending Reinforcements. LONDON. October 24th

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 October 1877 · page 1

THE Shah of Persia visits Eruope next Spring. There has been another great fire at St. John's New Brunswick. Two hundred…

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Cable Messages Latest War News. Cambridg shire Stakes. Indian Fam[?]ne Prospects Improving Failure of Pomeranian Bank. Caffre Outbreak. Sulieman Pasha's Army Retreating Expulsion of Father Carci from the O.S.T. LONDON. October 25th

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 October 1877 · page 1

The Cambrideshire Stakes has been won by longleur, Belplone, and Gladiola. A. G. Elliott has been appointed Am bassador at Vienna…

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Cable Messages Latest War News. Recovery of Bodies from Blantyre Pit. Conviction of Baxter, Langley, and Accomplices. All the Foreign Masons are on Strike. Earthquake at Lisbon. Turkish Loan of £5,000,000. A War of Tariffs is Probable. A Russian Prince and 800 Russians Killed. Portion of Kars in Flames. The Health of the Czar. Death of Prince Sergius. French Ministry is Likely to Resign. Constantinople is Fortified. Great Russian Victory. Bombardment of Plevna. The Schipka Pass. Mukhtar Pasha compelled to change his quarters. Bombardment of Kars. LONDON. October 26th

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 November 1877 · page 1

Eighty bodies have been recovered from the Blantyre Pit. The Queen has sent a message of sympathy to the sufferers and their…

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War with Mexico Imminent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 November 1877 · page 2

A war between the United States and Mexico is imminent owing to repeated Mexican outrages on the border and inattention of the Mexican authorities…

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The Russian Losses in the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 November 1877 · page 2

An official statement has been made by the Russian authorities as to the lose in killed in the war up to the present time. The total loses are set down at…

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Cable Messages Latest War News. Supreme Court of Judicature. Monetary and Commercial. LONDON, October 27

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 November 1877 · page 1

THE First Baron Chelmsford (Frederick Thesiger, D.C.L.) succeeds the Hon. Sir R. P. Amphlets as one of the Lords Justices of the Court of Appeal…

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Arrival of the English Mail (Via San Francisco) at Auckland. Auckland, Saturday 10.40 a.m. the Latest War News. The Hussian Losses. The Cause of Mehemet Ali[?]s Recall. Turkish Atrocities—Strong German Remonstrance. The Indian Famine.—The Deaths. Peace Negotiations. The Great South Sea Whaling Disaster Fearful State of Things in America. Two Millions Unemployed.—Crime Rampant. Indian Massacres. The Mail Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 November 1877 · page 2

The city of Sydney, with the English Mails, via San Francisco, arrived in Auckland yesterday evening. She had measels aboard on the run…

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Cable Messages Latest War News. London. November 3

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 November 1877 · page 1

THERE has been extensive floods in South Wales. General Grant has been [?]nised at Salford…

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Latest Telegrams. Another Army to Relieve Plevna. Cardinal Manning at Rome. Revival of Trade. More American Frauds. War between America and Mexico. Railway Accidents at Lithgow and Redfern. Hon. G. Allen dead The s.s. Lusitania at Plymouth. Election News. Loss of the Witch of the Wave. Princely Donation to a Hospital. Total Destruction of the Ly-ee-Moon. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 November 1877 · page 1

A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred on board the Ly-ee-Moon at the A.S.N. Co's Wharf early on Sunday morning. The Magazine exploded. The damage is supposed…

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Arrival of the English Mail (Via San Francisco) the Russo-turkish War Latest War News

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 November 1877 · page 2

WE extract the following additional items of news from the Sydney papers:— The Russo-Turkish War. At Plevna, the Russian and Roumanian…

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The War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 November 1877 · page 2

THE black clouds are still rolling heavily over the contending armies on the blood-red field of war. Fortune, on the whole, seems to have been veering…

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Latest Telegrams. Arrival of the English Mail (Via Suez) English Tender for Russian War huts The Staunton Trial. Death from Hydrophobia. Latest War News. Russia Determined to Crush Turkey. Turkey Refuses Peace. Rumoured Death of the Prince of Wales. Inquest on the Ly-ee-Moon

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 November 1877 · page 1

The Governor and Others Lectured by Archdeacon Stretch for Horse racing…

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Cable Messages Latest War News. London. October 8

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 November 1877 · page 1

SEVERAL scientific bodies having made representation to the Privy Council respecting Dr. Hunter researches, Lord Salisbury has sanctioned grants for similar…

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