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LONDON, February 20.—The Queen has issued a proclamation prohibiting soldiers on the active list from joining the reserve forces. A proclamation also announces the embodiment of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, February 23.—A farther telegram has been received from the British headquarters in the Soudan, notifying that the friendly Arabs had an encounter with the Hadedowas, a numerous tribe…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—It is said that the Australian contingent is sent to assist England in her need. Alas, alas! It would be absurd to call this paltry scrimmage in the Soudan. with a parcel of savages, war; and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cocktown, February 24.--The Guthrie, from Kongkong, February 7, reports that the attack upon Keelurg and Tamsul is postponed. The Chinese there are making every preparation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COOKTOWN, February 24.—The steamer Guthrie arrived to-day from Hongkong, which she left on February 7. The latest advices report that the attack upon Kelung and Tamsui by the French…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Guthrie arrived to-day from Hongkong February 7. The latest advices report that the attack upon Kelung and Tamsui by the French has been postponed. The Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,—I thought it wouldn't be long before we heard a growl from the old dog in the manger, and the romance of his big vacant country lout is only in keeping with the rest of his ingubrious statements…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—I trust the Press, in this crisis, will allow the minority to be heard. To the disgrace of the late meeting this was not done, therefore it is all the more incumbent on the part of the press to show a better…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Sunday evening Mr. Thomas Walker, the well-known freethought lecturer, delivered a lecture on "The Fever of War" to a crowded and apparently unanimous audience in the Theatre Royal, The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Walter Gough, a soldier belonging to the Permanent Artillery, was charged in the Water Police Court on Tuesday with having maliciously wounded Michael Vale, a volunteer who recently enlisted for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Walter Croft, ore of the Soudan contingent, appealed in his uniform at the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr Leopold Yates, to answer a charge of maliciously wounding one Michael Veal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Sands has contributed toward Sir E. Strickland's fund for procuring comforts for the troops two gross of playing cards, of the value of £25…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Much has been made of the natural rivalry between the two enterprising colonies of New South Wales and Victoria; and this has been exaggerated to such an extent by partisan writers and politicians that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—Mr. Buchanan is consistent if nothing else. He again figures with the minority, and doubtless with the same old hope that impudence will be mistaken for bravery. His faculties are bo jaundiced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Ministerial party arrived in Orange at about 4.30 p.m. They were met at the railway station by a large number of the residents. Upon having alighted from the train, Mr. Dalley and other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In response to a requisition presented to the mayor of Balmain (Mr. J. Garrard, M.L.A.), a meeting was convened for Thursday night in the Town Hall, to give…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The reports which haye been received by the Minister for Lands relative to the steps that are, being taken by the landholders and the local bodies to destroy the rabbits, are on the whole satisfactory. The…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →CAIRO, February 26.—General Lord Wolseley reports that a number of the Mahdi's spies and bodies of Arah marauders have made their appearance between (akdul and Korti, the head-quarters…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →LONDON, February 27.—The British Government has declined to assent to the decision of the French authorities that rice is a contraband of war…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Excellent maps are being issued by Messrs. Turne and Henderson, Sydney, and from the Government Printing Office—the,latter for official use only; the former, price 1s and for everybody. We have in…
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