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NEWCASTLE, This Day.--The members of the Liedertafel will give their popular president "a welcome home" on his return from England. He is a passenger by…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1888
378 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 19
The Death of Major Barttelott. a Follower Scourged to Death. His Soldiers Starved
MUCH sympathy has been expended over the late of Major Barttelot, who led the relief expedition for Stanley in the Congo, but, if [?] the accounts to hand be true, very…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An Archbishop on War
Some people have been grieved to see the name of Providence coupled with the most sanguinary wars of modern times. The Archbishop of Cherson and Odessa holds that even the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The New Hebrides. a Labor Schooner's Boat Attacked. the Chief Officer Killed. a Sailor Dangerously Wounded
By the arrival of the H.M.S. Calliope from the New Hebrides we have news of a murderous attack made by the natives of Ambrym on the boat's crew of the Queensland labor schooner…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Emperor's Wounded Feelings
THE Emperor WILLIAM of Germany has officially announced that the utterances of the Berlin Liberal prees have wounded his feelings. It, appears from this that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The "Tug" of War
The hearing of this action, which was part heard yesterday, was resumed to-day before Mr. Justice Stephen and a jury of four. It was brought by the Tasmanian Steam Navigation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The "Tug" of War. Important to Mariners. the New Castle Collision
In the No. 1 Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Stephen and a jury of four, the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company sued John and Alexander Brown for the recovery of £500, under the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Newcastle Collieries Strike. Probable Result of the Ballot. the Pay of the Soldiers. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Special Reporter.) Newcastle
Although the miners have not yet spoken upon the question of accepting or rejecting the agreement, it is generally felt that it will be approved of almost, unanimously; if it is not accepted, the feeling in Neweastle will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The "Tug" of War. (Continued from our first edition of yesterday.)
Charles Randall, shipping clerk in the defendant's office, deposed that the cards referred to were laid on his table, as many as twenty at a time, and it was Open to anyone to take one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The "Tug" of War. the Evidence Concluded
The hearing of the case, rendered remarkable by the fact that it arose out of a sort of triangular dual between the steamer Flora, the steaming Bungaree, and the ship…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Winged Messengers of War
Carrier pigeons, it is thought, will play an important part in the next great European war. The French Minister of War has just given orders for the organization of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Botany Sham- Fight. Our War Correspondent Under Difficulties
IF mortals should be so incredulous as to demand farther proof of the fact that an all-wise Providence built man in such a manner that his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Zanzibar Difficulty. a Man-of-war Ordered to Zanzibar. London, November 9
The Agamemnon, one of the Mediterranean fleet, has been ordered to Zanzibar, in view of rendering assistance in carrying out the projected blockade of the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The French War Budget. Paris, November 10
In the Chamber of Deputies to-day M. de Freycinet, Minister for War, in introducing the war budget, declared that it was useless for the House to expect a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War in Samoa. Firing From a German Gunboat. Decisive Battle Expected. Auckland, This Day
A party of Samoans in a boat off Apia were fired upon from some of the boats of the German gunboat Adler on October 23, but none of the occupants were struck by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To-day's Cablegrams. The European Situation. Prospects of Peace. But Preparing for War. Russia and Turkey
LONDON, November 11.—At the Guildhall banquet the Marquis of Salisbury, speaking upon European affairs, said that the Powers had every inducement to refrain from a war which might…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers and Cricketers
KIAMA, This Day.--The Newington College cadets had a sham flight last evening by moonlight. They play a cricket match to-day against a Kiama club…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War in Samoa. Another Big Battle Imminent. Protest Against the Action of the Germans. the British Consulate Guarded. (By Cable.)
AUCKLAND, Saturday. -- By the R.M.S. Zealandia, which arrived to-day from San Francisco via the Islands, further particulars are to hand regarding the native outbreak in Samoa. When…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War in Samoa. the Natives Fired Upon by the Germans. Foreign Residents Appeal for Protection. Mataafa Preparing for an Attack
AUCKLAND, Saturday, 1.15.—News has arrived to-day to the effect that the German marines are daily parading Apia. A meeting has been held to protest against the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Last Little War. Not Over Yet
LONDON, November 12.—The native tribes in the Black Mountain district, on the northern frontier of India, who were reported to have yielded to the British under General M'Queen,…
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