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Riverina · The wars & local soldiers
2,127 stories in Riverina's papers · page 24 of 107
Lord Roberts is caring for one hundred and seventy Boers, wounded during Gronje's defence. Heart Roabefort is receiving subscrip-…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"The darkest hour is before the dawn," says the proverb, and so it has proved in the case of Kimberley. The death rate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Beneath a southern sky where storm and strife, Where gold and racial hatred forge the chain; Where man meets man—a savage for his life— No peace may reign…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ONE of the London "Daily News" war correspondents, in the course of a private letter to a friend, gives some vivid pictures of the realities of war…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The British advance guard has made such headway as to be visible from Ladysmith. Dr. Leyds declares that General Joubert, finding his position untenable, ordered the Boers in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Queen and Prince of Wales have congratulated Generals Buller and White. It is feared that the Boers saved their guns at the Modder. The retreat is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News from Capetown states that the Congress of the Afrikander Bund, which had been fixed for the 8th inst., has been postponed. The postponement has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The credentials, which I had with me at once placed me in full touch with the highest diplomatic circles. And I very soon saw that all that…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Strange as it may seem to foreigners who do not understand the peculiarities of our stock, there are various points upon which "Pro-Boers" and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the first place—the fates! Years ago two men and a boy were adrift on the ocean in a small yacht. The boy was eaten, and the men were acquitted…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A return of the casualties suffered by General Buller's force at Klipraal on 16th February includes the names of Privates T. Ball and William Tweedie, of the New…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TROOPER W. LUFF, of the Gendagal Troop of Australian House, has forwarded the following letter from South Africa to his brother George:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The firing of a shell from a 110-ten gun crest £166. A 110-100 gun will stand only 93 shots, after which it becomes useless for further employment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CRONJE'S laager is a charnel house, food was exhausted with the exception of meat, but there was plenty of ammunition…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The headquarters of Field-Marshal Lord Roberts are at Asfontein, six miles east of Paardeberg. A force of four thousand Boers is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the annual dinner of the Hibernian Australasian Society, held last week at the Hotel Cecil, george-street, the Minister for Works replied to the least of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the House of Commons last night, Mr. Balfour, the First Lord of the Treasury, announced that the Budget would be introduced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three British officers escaped from Pretoria during the confusion following upon a stoppage of the electric light. Several children were found in the trenches…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Roberts admits that he considered the relief of Ladysmith an almost hopeless undertaking. The position was rendered all the more…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE most pathetle incident of the war in South Africa has been the tender message of sympathy and admiration by…
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