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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
322 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 17
CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 29, 1884. -- A riot, which was but the culmination of the bitterness of feeling on the part of the population of Cincinnati against a most infamous verdict rendered in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, May 2.—A Parliamentary Bluebook has just been published, upon Egyptian affairs, which shows that the British Government frequently urged Major-General Gordon to withdraw…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →LONDON, May 10.—In reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Gladstone stated that, although the financial affairs of Egypt constituted the basis of the proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Ohio Legislature has done a proper act in making provision for the return of the body of J. A. MacGahan, the famous American war correspondent, from the cemetery at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CAIRO, May 17.—The British Government, having considered further representations of the Egyptian authorities, have sent a communication consenting to the proposal to despatch as soon as…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR,— Under the above heading you have republished a letter from the Dublin FREEMAN, in your issue of the 3rd instant. The author of that letter is not very well informed on many subjects…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →CAIRO, May 26.—In obedience to orders received from the British Government, the officers on the staff here have prepared plans for the campaign proposed to be undertaken in the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →At the olose of the Amerioan war with Mexico a prize was offered by an institute in one of the rising aettlements in the Far West, for an essay on the war. The successful essayist certainly deserves…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Thus the BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL:—The result, one day recently, of four football fights—it is a gross misuse of language to call them "games"—was that two young men lost their lives, and two sustained fractures of the leg, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The special correspondent of the Hongkong Daily News, writing on April 17, gives the following account of the final attack of the French on Hong-Hoa:- "General Briers de I'lsle, with 4000 men, left Hanoi…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A sad shooting [?] occurred yesterday at Pallamaliawa, 18 miles from Moree A respectable young man named Gwydir Pearce was shot dead by an Irishman named Jack Brady. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thus the BRITISH MBDICAL JOURNAL:—The result, one day recently, of four football fights—it is a gross misuse of language to call them "games"—was that two young in on lost their lives, and two sustained fractures of the leg, in…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →CATRO, May 29.—It is stated that a new religious pretender, claiming the title of Madhi, has appeared in the province of Parfur, and has attacked and defeated the troops of Mohamed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cairo, June 2.— Despatches received from the Governor of Dongola report that the state of the province is much improved and nearly pacified. The Governor of Berber had had an engagement…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →An extraordinary shooting affair is reported from Sandhurst. A young man named Abraham Stephens informed the police that early yesterday morning he was shot at by some persons unknown…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CAIRO, June 6.—A report is current here that General Gordon has escaped from Khartoum, and is making bis way up the Nile in a steamer, presumably with the intention of reaching the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Definite news has been received of Mr. O'Kelly, M.P. (says the Dublin FREEMAN correspondent), and I belive I am now justified in mailing the announcement that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The gunboats Victoria and Albert, and the torpedo boat Childers, arrived in Farm Cove at 11 o'clcok on Friday night from Portsmouth, via Gibraltar, Malta, the Suez Canal, Aden. Colombo, Batavia, Thursday Island,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, June 14.—The Egytian correspondent of the TIMES telegraphs from Koroako that El Mahdi, at the head of 35,000 men, is marching on Dongola, and that the Governor of that place…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The gunboats Victoria and Albert, and the torpedo boat Childers, arrived in Hobson's Bay to-day, and are now anchored off Wiliiamstown. The Minister for…
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