Death of Maori War Veteran. London, Saturday night
The death is announced of General Morant, who served with the British forces in New Zealand during Maori war…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1889
107 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 6
The Soudan War. Retreat of the Arabs. Destroying the Natives' Wells. LONDON
Osman Digna intends to continue his fighting, and for this purpose he is re-collecting his forces at Handoub. LONDON, Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shooting Casualty. Wounded at the Targets
At a rifle match at Murrurandi yesterday, a man named E. Sevil was severely injured. He was marking at a target, when a ball struck a stone from which it rebounded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Soudan War. Reported Submission of Shelks. Convicts fortifying Snakim. General Grenfell's Proclamation. Defeat of Osman Digna. LONDON
Several Sheiks in the Soudan have offered to submit to the British, agree to trade peaceably, if Osman Digna and the dervishes be expelled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Soudan War. Osman Digna Reinforced by 10,000 Men
LONDON, Wednesday.— Osman Digna, the great patriotic leader of the Soudanese and Arabs, who is reported to have been recently defeated…
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CAIRO, Thursday.—According to news received the body of reliable Egyptian soldiers, who started from Omdurman on the 23rd of November have arrived at Wady…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Imperial Conference. Federation. Opinion of Secretary for War
LONDON, Tuesday.—The Hon. Edward Stanhope, Secretary of state for War, in a letter to the newspapers, states that the recent Imperial Conference was unanimous in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cablegrams. the Soudan War. Osman Digna Reinforced. Desires to Surrender. His Harem
LONDON, Tuesday.— Reports from Suakim state the followers of Osman Digna are abducting the women of friendly tribes. LONDON, Thursday.— Osman Digna has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Soudan War. Garrison at Suakim. Emin Bey's Rescue
LONDON, Friday.—General Grenfell and a portion of the British forces have left Suakim. Before his departure, General Grenfell…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British in Borneo. Natives and English Traders. Another Little "Black" War
LONDON, Thursday.—A disagreement has arisen between the British North Borneo Company and the Chief of Brunei, and fighting has taken place between the employees…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Civil War in Samoa. Germans Attack Malietoa. A Village Bombarded. Tremendous Excitement. Twenty Germans Killed
AUCKLAND, Sunday.—News from Samoa received by the R.M.S. Mariposa shows that affairs there are more unsettled than over. Shortly after the arrival of the Olga, there…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soudan War. Osman Digna. Safety of Emin Bey
LONDON, Monday.—A deserter from the dervishes' camp, who has come into Suakim, states that Osman Digna, with 1200 followers is at present at Handoub. He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ARBITRATION v. War. a Prophet of Peace. The Russian "Bugaboo."
MR. WILLIAM JONES, who was Hon. Commissioner of the War Victims' Fund during the Franco-German War, and is secre[?]ary of the Peace Society,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Latest Intercolonial News. New South Wales. the Russian Man O'war
AFTER a stay of nearly a fortnight in Port Jackson, the Russian warship Nayezdnik sailed on Tuesday for St. Petersburg. She will call at Auckland en route, and will make…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War in Samoa. Germany and America
LONDON, Wednesday.—The German officials in Samoa have accused Mr. Hacklock, the United States Consul, and Captain Leamy, of the American man-of-war Nipsic,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →England in India. War in Burmah
LONDON, Tuesday Night.—News has been received of the progress of the expedition despatched into British Burmah to punish the tribes who last summer raided into the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soudan War. England and the Natives
LONDON, Tuesday Night.—Colonel Kitchener, the officer in charge of the Egyptian troops at Suakim, has assured the native tribes in the Soudan that it is not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ranco-prussian War Scandal. Ex-Empress Involved
LONDON, Wednesday.—Arising out of the evidence in the trial of Dr. Geffcken, which implicates Sir Robert Morier in the betrayal of the movements of the German…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War in Hayti. Heavy Losses. General Shot
LONDON, Wednesday.—News from Hayti reports very heavy fighting between the Government troops and the insurgents. General Hippolyte, the commander of the latter,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[Reuter's Telegrams.] France Preparing for War. Cruisers to be Built
PARIS, Saturday.—The French Government have issued orders to private firms of shipbuilders in France for the construction of two large cruisers and thirteen torpedo…
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