The Mounted Sword Contest. Meats Seriously Wounded
ABOUT 4000 people assembled on Saturday afternoon at the Bondi Aquarium to witness the mounted sword contest between Sergeant J. R. Donovan and J. C. Meats,…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1888
4 stories in South Coast's papers
The French Dogs of War
The London Court Journal says that the ‘dog corps’ in the French Army is being carefully trained at Belfort, and the pupils begin to do credit to their teachers. Huge dogs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Unslinkable Man-of -War
THE French Government are (says the [?] to build a new [?] which it is believed on the [?] of the Channel, will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WILL 1888 Be a Year of War?
The present year is the fifth year of modern times in which the aggregate of the [?] is twenty-five and there will be but five years in which such a combination is…
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