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The wars & local soldiers, 1888

12 stories in Riverina's papers

Tithe War in Wales

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 13 January 1888 · page 4

OUR Cheater correspondent telegraphs:—"The lithe war has just entered upon a now phase with the advent of the military, and the alacrity with which the tithes were paid in the presence…

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An Editor Wounded to Death at Redwood City

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 19 January 1888 · page 3

THE Redwood city correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle reports on November 23:—"A cowardly murder occurred here this afternoon, in which Dr. H. L. Powell, a…

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Soldiers and Sport

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 2

LORD Welseley, in presiding at the opening of the new recreative room recently added to the Finsbury Polytechnic, made a noteworthy speech to an…

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THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser. "This is true liberty; when freeborn men. Having to advise the public, mayspeak free" Milton. Tuesday, February 28, 1888. the Fiscal War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1888 · page 2

Now that the purely personal, Government, of the past has given place to that of party, in something more than the name, election contests are…

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Peace or War?

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 3 March 1888 · page 2

DESPITE the pacific assurances from time to time given by leading men of the great European Powers, there seems good reason to fear that, at almost any moment, an…

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Russia's Preparation for WAR

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 8

THE following communication from a correspondent at Kieff appeared in the St. James's Gazette on the 13th March, having been five days earlier:—…

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War Preparations in England

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 16 May 1888 · page 3
Also in Cootamundra Herald

Tho question of placing the British army in a thorough [?] of efficiency has been considered by the Head-quarter Staff, which have recommended the War Office…

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Diorama of Scotland and Soudan War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1888 · page 3

ON Thursday evening last Lingard's interesting pictorial show of Scotland's bounin hills and braes, castles, lochs, glens, and bowers, was presented to a fairly filled…

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China on the War Path

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 11 July 1888 · page 3

IT has been frequently asserted (says the Telegraph), in late years that a great disturbance of the equilibrium of power in the world will be effected as soon as…

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Twelve Million Soldiers!

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 14 November 1888 · page 3

The Marquis of Salisbury attended the banquet given by the newly-elected Lord Mayor of London in the Guild Hall on Saturday. Speaking on the [?]…

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