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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1865

4 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The Bushrangers Movements. Another Policeman and Gilbert Wounded

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1865 · page 2

OUR Binalong correspondent, writing on the 19th instant, states:—Yesterday (Saturday) five police fell in with Ben Hall, Gilbert, and Dunn at Wallendbeen, the station of Mr A. Mackay, near…

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Fatal Boiler Explosion at Mort's Dry Dock. Seven Men Killed and Six Dangerously Wounded

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 6 April 1865 · page 2

A TERRIBLE accident occurred at the dry dock, Balmain, between ten and eleven o'clock yesterday morning, when three persons—Joseph Porter, John Gordon, and Robert Craig—were killed by the…

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The War in America. Fall of Richmond

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 15 June 1865 · page 3

ON Saturday we received intelligence, by the barque Rosalie, from San Francisco, of the evacuation of the Confederate capital of Richmond, and its occupation…

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Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. Assassination of President Lincoln. The Assassin Shot Dead. Attempted Assassination of Mr Seward and his Son. Termination of the War in America. Flourishing State of the Revenue of Great Britain. Death of the Heir to the Russian Throne. Suicide of Admiral Fitzroy. Assassination of the Russian Secretary of Legation at Paris. AGE Office, Saturday morning

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 29 June 1865 · page 4

THE following despatch, announcing the arrival of the Salsette, with the European mails for April, was…

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