Going to War on Bicycles and Jaunting Cars
In the July number, the United Service Magazine has been discussing of late how best to mount men for war, and this month Captain Manders pleads strongly in favour…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1890
341 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 18
Going to War on Bicycles and Jaunting Cars
Tn the July number, the United Service Magazine has been discussing of late how best to mount men for war, and this month Captain Manders pleads strongly in favour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reported Plot Against the Czar. the Czar Said to Have Been Wounded. the Report Discredited in St. Petersburg. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Oct. 10
It is reported in Vienna that another attempt has been made upon the life of the Czar of Russia. A dynamite shell is said to have exploded in a forest at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Dogs of War."
Dogs as auxiliaries of the sentinel are coming to the fore, says a Paris correspondent. It appears that a kind has been discovered in Tonquin which has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Soldier Test. She Wanted to be an Actress
IT is just seven years ago. I was a governess in a ladies' school at a fashionable watering place on the South Coast (says a writer in the PALL MALL GAZETTE). Mine was not a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Land War. the Glensharrold Estate
More evictions have been carried out on the Glensharrold estate. Six tenants were dispossessed at the end of August, and it was only a couple of months since another batch was turned out…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The British Soldier
Intrepidity is the distinguishing feature of the British character, and from the pages of general history we find compressed the following graphic delineation of a British soldier at the period of…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Thrice Wounded. Rochefort and Thiebaud
AFTER four unsuccessful attempts to fight a duel, on account of differences arising from the Boulanger revelations, Rochefort and Thiebaud on the morning of September 6…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parade of Specials at Moore Park. a Soldierly Display. Speech by Sir Henry Parkes
Saturday was chosen as a day for bringing the whole of the mounted specials under orders in Sydney, including a number of the mounted police, on general parade before the eyes of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Down South. Joe Lesina on the Path. He Visits the Seat of Hostilities
Mr. Joe Lesina has been down south, and has written the following account of his experiences among the strikers in that district:- One thing I noticed-alike at Helensburgh, Clifton, Bulli,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Five Hundred Dead. The Crew of a War Vessel. They Sink with the Ship. Osman Pasha, the Hero of Plevna, among those Drowned--A Strange Voyage
ADVICES from Hiogo state that the Turkish man-of-war Ertogrul foundered at sea and 500 of her crew were drowned. The Ertogrul was a wooden frigate, 2334…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Caledonian News. Arrival of the Tanais. Soldiers and Sailors for Marseilles. French War Squadron--Landing of Convicts
THE Messageries Maritimes Co.'s steamship Tanais returned to port to-day from Noumea, and berthed at the Circular Quay. She presented the appearance of a troop-ship,…
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In the year 1814, when Napoleon made his last levy of troops to resist the invasion of France by the Powers of Europe, one Peter Julien Laurent, a poor knife-grinder, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Political Dogs of War. Preparing for Action. The Fiscal Bone of Contention
THE following report of proceedings in Parliament on Thursday evening would indictate than at lust the Protectionists are to be asked to "toe tho mark":—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Greasing Soldiers' Feet
We learn that "the experiment, begun some time ago in the German infantry, of doing away with socks and keeping the foot-soldiers' feet well greased, has proved thoroughly successful; for, to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Military Gossip. (By 'Citizen Soldier.')
LIEUTENANT- COLONEL JAMES EDWARD DOIDGE TAUNTON, whose portrait appears on the opposite page, joined the Imperial army in 1864, when in April of that year was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Free-trade and the Single Tax. War in the Camp
A SOMEWHAT Stormy meeting of the Free-trade and Liberal Association was held last night, when the attitude of the Government in connection with the financial proposals…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Veteran Soldier's Ninetieth Birthday
COUNT Von Moltke, the veteran Field-Marshal of the German Empire, on Monday received congratulations on at[?]aining his 90th birthday from all parts of the world Among those who sent him…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Army Meat Contracts. Deputation to the Minister for War
LONDON, Wednesday Night.--A deputation consisting of Mr. T. Archer, Agent-General for Queensland, and Messrs. Nelson, M'Ilwraith and Berkett, waited to-day upon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →REVIEWS. [?] of England, from the Conclusion of the [?] War in 1815 By S[?] Walpole, author of [?] Life of Lord John Russell. New and revised [?] London: Longman[?], Green, and Co.; and
Th[?] of the six volumes of Mr. Walpole's revised [?] have come to hand. They cover the last in years of George the Third's reign, or rather, of the [?], and the whole period of his successor's…
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