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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
378 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 19
The Philadelphia and New York journals contain heartrending details of the terrible railway disaster that occurred on the 10th of October on the Lehigh Valley Railway. The train was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the course of a striking address at the Thurles Convention, Mr. John Dillon said the present struggle would end in undoing the work of three centuries, reconquering Ireland, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →M. Nelidoff, the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, has demanded that the Porte shall name a precise date for the payment of the Tuikish war, indemity, and shall also…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Despatches from Zanzibar state that the forces under Bushire, the native leader, are plundering the country. The work of spoliation has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sunday last (says a Dublin paper, Nov. 3) the Rev. Dr. J. Redman, D.D., chaplain of Nazareth House, Hammersmith, preached to the Catholic soldiers at St. Brendan's, Birr, King's county…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A shooting affray is reported to have taken place about midnight on Saturday in that not too quiet suburb of Wooiloomooloo. From the particulars to hand, it would appear that two men named Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →APIA, November 26.--The native war in Samoa still continues to drag itself wearily along. Both parties have been taking things quietly during the past week. It is rumored…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →H.M.S. Lizard, which has arrived from Samoa, brings news that a great battle was fought there on November 29. It was the fiercest conflict that has yet taken place between the rival parties. On that day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Later news from Samoa states that during the late fighting the Tamasese men decapitated 44 of Mataafa's follower's. Among the wounded of the latter party were a number of women, one of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →APIA, December 8.--When I last wrote you, about 800 of the rebels were encamped at Saluafata. They consisted principally of Monono and Savaii people. By this movement…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday Night.--A tribal War is impending in East Africa. The Arusia tribe are reported to have attacked another. tribe, and to have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The first intimation of the extraordinary war budget of £22,500,000 which, as our cable news informs us, was passed by the Chamber of Deputies a few days ago, appeared in the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →BRISBANE, This Day.--Major Vincent, of the Queensland Defence Force at Towhsville, will leave by the outgoing R.M.S. Quefcta for Suakim, to be attached…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →H.M.S. Lizard, which has arrived from Samoa, brings news that a great battle was fought there on November 29. It was the fiercest conflict that has yet taken place between the rival parties. On that day…
Continued on Trove, page 1283 →Very many years ago, in the days of Ante Date, when the giant kangaroo lived and wandered at will where he chose, and the country was full of other strange animals which I would…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Latest news from Suakim states that the Hussars pursued the rebels close to Handoub, and the enemy's flight was complete. Osman Digna's nephew was among…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The "Itz[?]hoer Nachrichten" states that at the last naval manœuvres before Kiel an application of a swimming dress was made, which has been tried till now only in the German navy. The dress is like a diver's dress, made of indi[?]rubber and double…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News to hand from Suakim states that it is the general belief there that Osman Digna is making preparations to retreat. It is also asserted that the tribes are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.—A sensational shooting affray occurred on Friday night, on the American ship Earl of Grenfield, lying at the Port Melbourne pier. Captain W. H. Copp is accompanied…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On November 29 last it was reported in Apia that the war had broken out (said the Samoan TIMES). At 4 o'clock in the morning the Atua mon and the Tuamasaga attacked Tamasese's…
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