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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
269 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 14
The temporary hospitals—the places in which the sick and wounded were accommodated—presented a strange appearance, and all arrangements for their reception had to be made most hurriedly,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CAIRO, Wednesday, 11 a.m.—The uncertainty which has prevailed during the past few days as to the movements of the force under the command of Sir Herbert Stewart,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CAIRO, Wednesday.—Telegrams to hand from General Wolseley states that the infantry column under General Earle have had a battle with the rebel troops on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OF course I needn't tell you that we are all full up to the hung with military fever— that we crave for now is" blood, logo ! blood !"—and that we are jammed to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The enrolment of volunteers commenced yesterday. 130 passed the medical examination; 23 were rejected. Those passed were sworn in and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARIS, Wednesday.—Advice to band from Admiral Courbett state that five Chinese corvettes were recently attacked by French torpedo boats. The French…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Sir Eleven Wood has not been appointed to succeed General Earle as sated, but has joined General Redvers Buller at Gubat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the Wallsend Police Court on Monday, before Mr. Perrott, P.M., and Messrs. Neilson and Birrell, J.'sP., the Plattsburg Borough Council v. William Redshaw, Jno…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—On reading the report of the patriotic(?) meeting, held in Sydney recently, it is evident that the Sydney folk, like many in our own city, are not all ramping mad…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →POOR Vagabond. He was destined, it seems by the Melbourne "Argus," to be its war correspondent on the accompanying Soudan expedition. No doubt, had the English Government accepted the services of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE have much pleasure in giving insertion to the following letters from Mr. David Buchanan, M.P., which appeared in a Sydney paper on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The preparations for the embarkation of our troops are going on with great animation. The fitting-up of the two transport ships…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Saturday.—The immense crowds that found their way to Moore Park to witness the review must have been the means of considerably lessening the number…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The designs for the new ships of war are, we hear, being pressed forward with all possible speed by the authorities at the Admiralty. As already…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HURRAH! we're off to Egypt now: the dogs of war are loose. And to vent our martial ardour we have got a grand excuse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE above pertinent question was put the other day by a well known public man to a group of young volunteers, in the expedition now fitting out to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Thursday. A motion was made before Judge Fawcett to set aside a wait of ca. sa. issued against one of the members of the Soudan contingent who had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Sydney Express of Saturday, in a leader on "Constitutional Possibilities," says:—"We declare our conviction as to the immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Monday.—The War Office has decided that in view of the Afghan Frontier question, and other contingencies, the permanent establishment shall be considerably…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CAIRO, Monday.—An additional telegram to that which appears in our to-day's issue, respecting the sortie by the Kassala garrison states that it resulted in the loss of 600…
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