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The wars & local soldiers, 1882

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The War in Egypt. Occupation of Cairo

Evening News · Wednesday 8 November 1882 · page 8

BY the R.M.S. Peshawur, which arrived at Albany on Sunday night, we ( Melbourne " Argus") are in receipt of the following account of the occupation of Cairo by the British troops :-…

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War Between the Boers and Basutos. London. Nov. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 November 1882 · page 10

Hostilities between the Boers of the Transvaal and the Basutos still continue. The chief of a strong tribe, Mapoch, has twice defeated the Boers with heavy loss…

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The war in the Soudan

Evening News · Friday 10 November 1882 · page 2

CAIRO, Wednesday Evening.—The latest intelligence from the Soudan, and which is believed to be authentic, is to the effect that the fighting which recently took place between the Egyptian…

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"The Killed and Wounded."

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 November 1882 · page 6

When (asks the Irish World)the sickening record of brutality in Ireland to cease? When is that unhappy country to be free from that oppression which, is marked, day after day…

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The War in Egypt. Occupation of Cai[?]o

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 November 1882 · page 12

BY the R.M.S. Peshawur, which arrived at Albany on Sunday night,we (Melbourne "Argus") are in receipt of the following account of the occupation of Cairo by the British troops:—…

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Postscript. Cable Messages. The War in the Soudan

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 November 1882 · page 16

CAIRO, Wednesday Evening.—The latest intelligence from the Soudan, and which is believed te be authentic, is to the effect that the fighting which recently took place between the Egyptian…

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Attorneys in War Paint

Evening News · Wednesday 15 November 1882 · page 3

The proceedings in the County Court, Melbourne, recently were enlivened by an incident somewhat out of the common. At the conclusion of a small debt case, Mr. Gaunson solemnly rose and drew attention to the…

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Cable Messages. Cost off the Late War

Evening News · Thursday 16 November 1882 · page 2

LONDON, November [?] be had made to the leader the Opposition, Mr. Gladstone yesterday made an important announcement in the Hones of [?]…

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Latest Intelligence [By Electric Telegraph.] Our Special Telegram. (From Our Own Correspondent.) the Cost of the Egyptian War London, Nov. 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 November 1882 · page 7

An announcement was made in the House of Commons yesterday, by Mr. Gladstone, pursuant to a pledge which. he had made to the leader of the Opposition,…

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Cost of the Late War

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 November 1882 · page 11

LONDON,November 15.—Pursuant to a pledge he had made to the leader of the Opposition, Mr. Gladstone yesterday made an important announcement in the House of Commons regarding…

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Treachery of the Egyptian Soldiery. London, Nov. 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 November 1882 · page 7

A great sensation has been produced throughout Egypt by news that the troops that were despatched to the Soudan, to check the advance of the followers of the false…

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Offficers Killed and Wounded at Tel-elkebir

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 November 1882 · page 9

The following is a correct list of officers killed and wounded in the action at Tel-el-Kobir on September 13, 1832:—Killed—"2nd Battalion Connaught Kangers, attached to the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment—…

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The London Corporation and the War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 November 1882 · page 9

At the Court of Common Conncil on October 32, Mr. L. H. Phillips proposed to increased the sum to be voted to defray the expense attending the reception of Sir [?]. Wol[?]eley and Sir B. Seymour in the City from £500 to…

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The Bishop of Melbourne on the War

Nepean Times · Saturday 25 November 1882 · page 2

THE Bishop of Melbourne (says the Argus) recently preached at St. Mark's Church, Fitzroy. His text was from Jeremiah; v.30, 31:—"A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land. The…

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The Feats of a War Correspondent

Nepean Times · Wednesday 29 November 1882 · page 3

MR. CAMERON, of the London Standard, has rivalled the finest exploits of McGahan and Forbes. At Kassassin (according to home papers), with the skilful prescience…

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War Expenses

Evening News · Thursday 30 November 1882 · page 4

LONDON, November 28.—In the House of Commons, to-day, Mr. Gladstone introduced the Supplementary Estimates for the expenses of the occupation of Egypt till October, amounting to…

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Egypt. Catholic Soldiers in Egypt

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 December 1882 · page 6

A letter from Alexandria published in the Monde dwells on the religious liberty enjoyed by Catholics in the British army: "We feel it a duty (says the writer) to…

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Songs, Old and New, Re-set. The Soldier's Dream

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 December 1882 · page 27

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Mr. Bright on the War in Egypt. To the Editor

Evening News · Wednesday 13 December 1882 · page 2

Sir,—In a letter to Mr. Bright I discussed the question of war in the abstract, holding that "peace at any price" was an untenable position, and that the Egyptian war seemed a…

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Postscript. Cable Messages. War in the, Transvaal

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 December 1882 · page 16

LONDON, December 14.—The Boers are reported to have captured Mampoer…

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