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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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The following particulars of the so-called Russian ironclad General Admiral, recently sighted off Cape Town, are taken from HARPER'S MAGAZINE for July 1882:—The sternpost of the General Admiral was laid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELAIDE, Monday.—Intense excitement prevails here respecting the probable war with Russia. A meeting of the Cabinet was held on Saturday, when all the Ministers except the Commissioner of Public Works…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Cabinet Council was held on Tuesday, and did not terminate until late in the afternoon. The question of the defences of the colony was considered at length. Mr. Dalley, who leaves Grafton this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A very competent artist, whose works we have often had occasion to notice favourably, has been busy for the last six werks painting a panorama of the Soudan war, and more especially the participation of the new…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—Herewith I give you two paragraphs, which will show what LONDON TRUTH thinks of the Soudan War, and of the part New South Wales has taken in it. This is the first adverse criticism from England it. It may not be acceptable news, but it is as well we should know what is thought from both sides, on this Soudan question:—"So another massacre of the brave men fighting for their independence has taken place!…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Great alarm has been caused here by a telegram from Melbourne notifying that Captain Calder of the steamer Victorian, when on his road for Melbourne from Port Adelaide, sighted a strange man-of-war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, April 14.—It is feared that the Russians are about to attack Marachat and Zulfikar, near the River Murghab, in Afghanistan, and some miles to the south of Penjdeh…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Government had no fresh news Tuesday morning as to the position between Russia and Britain. It is pretty well known that the Governor him-self, outside of any telegraphic advices he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The labors of Sisyphus were light and easy compared with the task which Mr. Walker set himself when he undertook the responsibility of substantiating the misrepresentations scattered…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A serious stabbing affray occurred on board the American schooner Quickstep last evening, by which two men were wounded. A Chinaman, named Ah Cann, cook on board, was told not to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During the visit of the Mayor and Aldermen of Sydney to the Austrian man-of-war Saida, on Wednesday, conversation with her Commander not unnaturally turned upon the somewhat "parlous times"…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Full partirulars are to hand of the march of the French to Langson, but there is nothing of importance to be added to the short account which I have already sent you. Though the French have now upwards of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Shanghai COURIER reports that the Governor of the Imperial Palace in Pekin, Prince Kuong, sent not long ago a deputation to the temple of the God of War, requesting to be informed how long the war with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Considerable sensation was caused here to-day by a telegram appearing from the Advertiser correspondent at Beachport, that at 9 o'clock on Monday evening dull booming sounds were heard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A supplement to the Government Gazette of Tuesday, April 14, contained the following notification:—"Notice is hereby given that, for the better protection of the harbour and city against foreign aggression, it has been…
Continued on Trove, page 842 →Reading a letter in your valuable paper signed " Inquisitor " on the present working of the Rabbit Act, I would ask your permission to publish a few lines on the same subject. I quite agree with his…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →IN the absence of the Minister of War, Mr. Dalloy, gone off, as Mr. Alderman O'Connor put it, "at this most momentous period picnicking," certain of the more (or less)…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →One of the most remarkable demonstrations to which the land war gave origin took place, on February 14th, in Scariff, at the farm of Domimck Hogan, against whon an ejectment…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A roconnaissance in force took place today in the vicinity of Hasheen. The enemy appeared; but not in great force. The British surrounded and captured 40 prisoners…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SUAKIM, April 9, 2.5 a.m.—The Coldstream Guards, with the Australian "Contingent, have reached the Handub Wells without opposition from the zareba where they were previously camped…
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