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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
262 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 14
Quebee, Thursday.--A great tire broke out here this morning and is ut the present time raging with extreme violence. The citadel has been destroyed and a large number of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the recent three days' State Convention of the Grand Army of the Republic, held at Dubuque, Iowa, the following resolution wag passed with enthussias[?]:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →We have been for the last six maonths so accustomed to war scares that such a trifling incident as the occupation of Keriri, a town on the frontier of Afghanistan, by Russian troops, may seem a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An attempt was made on June 3 in the Meifod Valley, Montgomeryshire, to tell stock seized at the instance of the Dean and Chapter of Christchurch, Oxford, for tithes due. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At Chatham Dockyard, on June 7, her Majesty's ship [?]mmortalite, a twin-screw belted cruiser, was launched, or rather floated, out of dock, with the usual ceremony. The new steel warship is (says an English paper) one of seven partly-armoured vessels…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Some few weeks ago arranged [?] made for the erection of a [?] concert hall at the Victoria [?] dington, for the use of the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In our issue of June 18 we mentioned that Messrs Singer's ten-in-hand "Victoria, or war cycle" had been submitted to some severe tests at Aldershot. This week we give a sketch of the machine with ten riders mounted…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →Criminals of all grades are good selfexcusers. Their crimes, according to their arguments, have always been forced upon them by circumstances. Those who…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON. Saturday.--The Grand Jubilee Naval Review took place to-day before her Majesty at Spithead, and proved a perfect success. The weather was splendid, and all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eight Alsatian soldiers have been arrested at Mayence for conspiring with the French Patriotic League against German authority…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Queensland Chief Secretary has received information from the Resident at Thursday Island, per Albatross, just returned from an is and voyage, that the, inhabitants at Saibai had again…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Though the bravery and valour of the Irishman in the ranks of the army has ever been recognished by the bitterest enemies of the Irish people it would appear (says the Liverpool…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The German war squadron, comprising the Bismarck (flagship), Sophie, Olga, and Carola, which have been anchored in Port Jackson, got. under way on. Wednesday, and steamed clear of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Phil Robinson, the well-known journalist and war correspondent, arrived in Sydney yesterday, by the express from Molbourne. Ho was received at Redfern Station by a number of representatives of the.various ranks of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Language fails to convey anything like an adequate idea of the nature of the reception accorded to Mr. William O'Brien, M.P., and Mr. Kilbride, on their return from Canada and the the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →If "the man who has commanded an army has done more for his country than any writer on strategy or military history," then we might say that the man who plays a good. game of chess does a better thing than he who expounds…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In this book Sergeant Faughaan traces his life from his school days throughout his career as a soldier in the British army, giving a graphic and detailed account of his service in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The blackest human heart that guilt ever claimed as its own has still lingering in it some spark of a holier fire than that with which crime sears it. I have been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Saturday night Mr. Phil Robinson, the well known war correspondent, repeated his lecture "On the War Path," at the New Masonic Hall, Castlereagh-street. His Excellency the Governor, the Primate, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.--At the banquet given by the Lord Mayor at the Mansion-house last night, the Marquis of Salisbury delivered a lengthy speech on the present…
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