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The wars & local soldiers, 1890

341 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 18

War in the Future

The Australian Star · Tuesday 21 January 1890 · page 5

WHEN war comes in Europe, as it must come some time, it will be seen that a new era has begin in the art of destruction. The Belgian historian, Emile de Laveleye, sums…

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A Violent Soldier

The Australian Star · Thursday 23 January 1890 · page 5

HENRY PALMER, a member of the Permanent Artillery, was charged at the Water Police Court this morning before Mr. Benjamin Lee, D.S.M., with assaulting a…

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A Chat with Sherman. True Courage in Soldiers. Saved by His Wit

The Australian Star · Friday 24 January 1890 · page 8

IT was my good fortune to make at New York the close acquaintance of that renowned soldier of the Republic, General Sherman (writes Sir Edwin Arnold in the…

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A Duel in France. M. E. Rothschild Wounded

Evening News · Saturday 25 January 1890 · page 4

LONDON, January 24.—A duel has been fought in France between M. Edouard Rothschild and the Marquis de Gouy. M. Rothschild was wounded…

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Arbitration Instead of War

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 25 January 1890 · page 9

A meeting of the Peace Society was recently held in the Sackville Hall, Dublin. There was a large attendance. Mr. W. Evans Darby, secretary of the London Society,…

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The Land War. the Ponsonby Estate

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 January 1890 · page 5

A tenant named Flavin on an estate adjoining the Penson by property, who had generously, placed his land at the disposal of the Tenants' Defence Association for the erection of cottages…

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A Duel in France. M. Edouard Rothschild Wounded. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Jan. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1890 · page 11

A duel has been fought in France between M. Edouard Rothschild and the Marquis De Gouy. M. Rothschild was wounded…

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Strike of Glassworkers. Riot of the Strikers. Two Men Killed. Several Wounded, LONDON, January 30

The Australian Star · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 5

Five hundred glass worker shavestruck work at Gablonz, a well-known manufacturing town of Bohemia, on the Neisse River. The men armed themselves with weapons of all…

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The Little Soldier

The Australian Star · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 2

"When I'm big I'll be a soldier, That's what I will be; Fight for father, fight for mother, Over land and sea !"…

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Carrying the Wounded. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1890 · page 9

Sir,—If you will kindly give publicity to the following hint it will probably save many valuable lives in the course of a year. When a man meets with a severe accident, the most frequent course adopted is to call a…

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News by Cable. The Great Labor Movement. Proposed European Conference. War to the Knife. Trade Leaving the Thames. a Serious Outlook

Evening News · Friday 7 February 1890 · page 4

LONDON, February 5.—Mr. C. M. Norwood, Chairman, of the Joint Committee of the East and West India and London and St. Katherine's Dock Companies, states that…

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How to Treat Soldiers. General Sir Evelyn Wood's Fads

The Australian Star · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 7

SIR EVELYN WOOD is a good general. He is also a good Liberal. I hope he will, therefore, allow me to give him some salutary advice (writes Labouchere in TRUTH.)…

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Mars, Bacchus, and Venus. a Soldier, but Not a Man

The Australian Star · Monday 10 February 1890 · page 6

A STALWART young artilleryman, with a souvenir of the battle with the bottle in the shape of a beautiful black eye, pleaded not guilty at the Central to-day to…

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The Goulburn-street War

Evening News · Tuesday 11 February 1890 · page 5

A soldier in uniform (rather damaged) named William Slater, 21 years of age, was charged in the Central Police Court yesterday morning with having assaulted Catherine Watts. The…

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A Violent Soldier

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 February 1890 · page 3

William Sutter (21), a young artilleryman, appeared at tho Central Count yesterday upon two charges of assault. The story as told by the witnesses was that on Saturday night at…

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The War on the Press

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 February 1890 · page 6

A feeble effort by Mr. Balfour to show that the resources of Coercion are not yet exhausted; but it is a very fesble oas. While he shrinks from prosecuting Mr. Shaw-Lefovre for openly…

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The Children's Corner. The Little Soldier

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 February 1890 · page 29

"When I'm.big I'll be a soldier; That's what I will be; Fight for father, fight for mother, Overland and sea!"…

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"Our Only General." Wolseley Interviewed. Chat at the War Office

The Australian Star · Monday 17 February 1890 · page 7

"I HAVE an appointment with Lord Wolseley at 2 o'clock." "Yes; will you come this way?" I have entered the War Office by the…

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The Little Soldier

Evening News · Monday 17 February 1890 · page 7

I. When I'm big Til be a soldier; That's what I will be; Fight for father, for mother,…

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War Against the Sparrow. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 February 1890 · page 5

RICHMOND, Wednesday.--At the Agricultural Society's meeting to-day a resolution was unanimously passed that the sparrow be classed as a noxious bird and included in the proposed…

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