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The wars & local soldiers, 1889

15 stories in Riverina's papers

Hostilities in Samoa. Repulse of the Germans. Twenty killed and thirty wounded. Auckland

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1889 · page 2

NEWS from Samoa, received by the R.M.S. Maripos[?], which arrived to-day, shows that affairs there are more unse[?] than ever. Shortly after the arrival of the [?], there…

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Civil War in Samoa. Auckland

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 3

NEWS from Samoa received by the R.M.S Mariposa shows, that affairs there are more unsettled than ever. Shortly after the arrival of the Olga, there being then three…

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War with Big Guns. The Thrilling Scene of a Battery in hot Action. (Chicago Tribune.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 2

Did you ever see a battery take position? It hasn't the thrill of a cavalry charge nor the [?]rimness of a line of bav[?]nets moving slowly and determinedly on, but there is a…

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Russian War Peeparations

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 February 1889 · page 4

THE Russian war authorities are very actively employed in organising a homogeneous plan of defence in case of hostilities breaking out—a contingency which the government, it is…

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A War About Wheat

The Cootamundra Liberal · Friday 19 April 1889 · page 4

A Novel accusation against the Press has been laid at the door of the Lyttleton Timet (New Zealand), which is accused of inciting New Zoaland…

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War With Big Guns

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1889 · page 4

Did you ever see a battery take position? It hasn't the thrill of a cavalry charge, nor the grimness of a line of bayonets moving slowly and determinedly on, but there is a peculiar…

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The War Cloud Darkening. London, Saturday.S

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 19 June 1889 · page 3

THE outlook in Europe is decidedly of a war like character, and the various towns are preparing for the outbreak, which is regarded as imminent…

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Lord Wolseley on War

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 29 June 1889 · page 2

Lord Wolseley lectured in the Sheldonian Theatre, at Oxford. He said that until some mad Minister came to rule over England, and allowed a…

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Lord Salisbury on the Danger of War

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 10 July 1889 · page 3

In the House of Lords, on May 27, Lord Salisbury, in moving the second reading of the Naval Defence Bill, defended the financial proposals of the…

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The War Alarms on the Continent

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 25 July 1889 · page 3

RUSSIAN designs in the Balkan Peninsula are giving rise to apprehension. It appears [?]o be strougly suspected both in Berlin and Vienna that Russia bus entered upon a new…

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Desperate conflict with Soldiers

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1889 · page 2

The steamship Liverpool, chartered by the Dublin and Glasgow Steam Packet Company, which arrived in Dublin on July 2, after being 17 hours on the passage, was during the…

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Letting Slip the Dogs of War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 November 1889 · page 4

The correspondent of the Morning Post, describing the German military man[?]uvres, concludes his despatch:—The most interesting novelty was the employment of dogs as…

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Soldiers Impaled on Bayonets

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 November 1889 · page 2

WHILE a company of Italian soldiers were receiving therir pay at Cosenxa, the floor of the room in which they were gave way, and the whole of the company fell into the room below…

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Caught by a Shark. the Expedience of a Deserter From a Man-of-war. (Boston Commercial Bulletin.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 10 December 1889 · page 3

SAMUEL Jennings was a native of Cape Cod. When nineteen years of age he was impressed on board the British frigate Milford, in Carlisle Bay, and was so badly used that he…

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War

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 25 December 1889 · page 4

For some years past the condition of matters in relation to many of the nations of [?] Europe has [?] one of the most [?] problems for contemplation…

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