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Northern Rivers · The wars & local soldiers
123 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 7
The Boers have retreated upon Inaque, sonth of Newcastle. The Granite Free State troops hold the railway from Kimberley to near the border…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. W. R. LAWSON (says the REVIEW OF REVIEWS) is rapidly becoming recognised as the most lucid and well informed writer upon international finance, whose…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Later news states the British, losses at Elandslaagte were heavy. The engagement was a brilliant one. The Boers had occupied Rocky Hills in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is reported that at Mafeking Colonel Baden-Powell feigned a retreat and drew the enemy over concealed Lydditte mines. The mines were fired at the critical moment…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE battle of Glencoe has furnished the Boers with conclusive evidence that British redcoats are not the poltroons and incapable which they have commonly believed them to be. It was a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LANCERS may have their own horses sent to South Africa and the Government will pay all expenses to their destination. The horses on arrival there are to be handed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →COLONEL YULE in withdrawing his forces from 'Dundee, and concentrating them at Glencoe Junction. Large Boer armies are advancing on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WHEN it became known that Sergeant Angus Livingstone and Trooper Kenneth M'Pherson, of the Richmond River Lancers, had volunteered for active in South Africa and were to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"THE glorious uncertainty of war" has passed into a proverb, and there is no knowing from moment to moment what may occur, says the 'Regiment.' The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Japaneso steamer Futami Maru, which arrived in the harbour recently, brings files of Hongkong papers to September 16, from which the following…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This question has sometimes been asked: How did the government acquire its title to the territory it governs? It is conceded that the Indians owned it as fax…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Gordon Highlanders say that Elandslaagte was more difBeult than Dargai Heights. They lost 118, including four officers. The total additional British losses…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CAFE files to band by last mail contain the following:- General Joubert's secretary has replied to a question of the insurance companies, as to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE long promised and much talked of armoured train, built to patrol the northern railway, at last made its appearance on Tuesday, September 26. when it was pulled out of the works at Salt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TWO successful sorties in armoured trains were made from Kimberley and Botha, and many Boers were killed. The British lost three killed and 21…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →KIMBERLEY is for the moment the centre of interest in the bloodred drama now being enacted in South Africa, and, if we mistake not, it will so continue, more or less, from this time until…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Many old soldiers now feel the effects of the hard service they endured during the war. Mr. Geo. S. Anderson of Rossville, York county, Penn., who saw the hardest kind of service at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →KIMBERLEY is completely invested by Boers, and the streets are barricaded and blocked with barbed wire. It is estimated that 30,000 Transvaalers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A GENERAL engagement was fought at Ladysmith on Monday. General White on Sunday sent two battalions of infantry with a mountain battery to the hills, overlooking the town…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Mafeking correspondent of the Cape Argus. Wiring on September 22. said: "When I was in Kimberley yesterday, the townspeople were showing great anxiety as to what would…
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