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The wars & local soldiers, 1881

4 stories in South Coast's papers

Those Painted Soldiers

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 3 March 1881 · page 2

MR. ROSEBY'S aversion to soldiers or anything military—especially if it is represented by a item on the estimates—is almost equal in intensity to the proverbial dishke of certain bovine…

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Australian Volunteers the for War

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1881 · page 2

Adelaide—Colonel Downes with 300 volunteers have offered themselves for active service in the Transvaal, and the Governor has telegraphed to Lord…

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The War with the [?]. Disastrous Defeat of the [?] SIR G. [?] AND 400 KILLED London, February [?]

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1881 · page 2

[?] has been [?] of a [?] by the [?] in the [?] upon the [?]…

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Sketcher. a Brief History of New Zealand From the Earliest Period. Chapter V. the Maori War

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 18 August 1881 · page 2

THEN came the blackest part of the history of New Zealand. For years a series of desultory warfare was carried on, never breaking out into actual and declared war, but…

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