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The wars & local soldiers, 1891

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A Selector Speared by Blacks. the Wounded Man in Albury

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 10

WE learn from Albury that the aboriginals who speared and robbed the settler Savien Mursez kavitz, at Dora Dora have so for evaded arrest. There are now about a dozen troopes, together…

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Civil War in Chile. London, April 30

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 1059

The latest news received regarding the civil war now raging in Chile is to the effect that the insurgents, who were recently reported to be marching on the town…

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How the Chilian War Has Come About

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 13

In the following communication some light is thrown from a well-informed source upon points in the Chilian struggle which have hitherto remained obscure:— President Balmaceda, the central figure in the existing…

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The British and the Boers. Drifting Towards War

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday Night.--The Pall Mall Gazette asserts that the moving of British troops in Bechuanaland to meet the advance of the Boers on Mashonaland…

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Blacks on the War Path. a Farmer Speared

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 13

Considerable excitement prevails among settlers in the Upper Murray district in consequence of a diabolical outrage which has beea perpetrated on a farmer by two aborigines,…

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Great Explosion in Rome. Several Killed, 250 Wounded. St. Peter's Damaged. the Pope Injured. (See illustrations on this page.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 30

A disastrous explosion has occurred in Rome, A magazine, in which a large quantity ol gunpowder was stored, exploded, occasioning great injury to life and property. Several persons…

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The Horrors of Civil War Bombardment of Coast Towns. Terrible Bloodshed

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 26

It was on January 7 last when the formidable insurrection, which has since culminated in civil war, first broke out in Chili and on January 18 the fleets blockaded the ports of Iquique, Pisaqua,…

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The Civil War in Chili. the Seizure of a Rebel Steamer by America. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, May 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 9

The Chilian rebel steumer Etata, which was seized at San Diego, a Californian port, by order of the United States Government, while loading arms and munitions of war,…

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The Revolution in Chili. the President, Jose Manuel Balmaceda. the Plaza at Night, Santiago. Chamber of Deputies, Santiago. the Acturo Prat Monument, Valparaiso. the Ironclad Blanco Encalada. the Horrors of Civil War. (See illustrations on this and next page.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 19

Our portrait on page 19 is that of Jose Mannel Balrnaceda, the President of the Spanish-Ameri can Republic of Chili, a state in which, at last advices, all the horrors of civil war were furiously…

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The Civil War in Chili. Escape of the Etata. the U. S. MArSHAL Landed. [By Cable.] (Fbom Our Correspondent.) London, May 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 May 1891 · page 5

The Marshal of the county of San Diego, in the State of California, who, having taken possession of the Chilian rebel steamer The Etata at that port, for a…

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A War Game

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 May 1891 · page 3

An interesting war game was played at the United Service Institute rooms last night. The "general idea" of the game was as follows:--A detached force of an invading army…

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The Civil War in Chili. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, May 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 May 1891 · page 7

It is announced that the efforts of the Chilian people to secure the mediation of certain foreign Powers in the settlement of the civil war now raging in Chili have…

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War Pigeons

Evening News · Thursday 14 May 1891 · page 2

The following are the regulations as to training an I flying in connection with the messenger war pigeons in Italy. The posts of Digdegha, the wells of Tata, as well as the detachments sent out…

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The War Ships

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 May 1891 · page 4

H.M.S. Orlando, the flagship on the Australian station, sails from Farm Cove to-day for Melbourne and Adelaide. She is expected to be absent from the port about a month…

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The Czarewitch in Japan. Attacked and Wounded by a Lunatic

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 May 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday Night.--From Japan it is reported that an attack has been made upon the life of the Czarewitch, the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia, who is at…

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Attempt on the Life of the Czarewitch. the Grand Duke Wounded. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, May 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 May 1891 · page 5

A great sensation has been caused by the report received from Japan this morning to the effect that a murderous outrage had been attempted upon his Imperial…

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Special Edition Thursday's Sporting. Boxing News. Pettengell Wants War. Laing and Goddard

The Australian Star · Thursday 14 May 1891 · page 6

Jim Pettengell, the New Zealand middle-weight, is now in Sydney, and is looking well. He says he feels an itching to discuss matters with any of our middle-weights…

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The Chilian Civil War. the Etata Affair. United States Cruisers in Pursuit. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondents.) London, May 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 May 1891 · page 5

There is much excitement in the United States, arising out of the affair at San Diego and the seizure of the Marshal of that country aboard the Chilian rebel steamer…

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The Revolt in Chili. Action by the United States Government. Munitions of War Seized

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 May 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Night.--The United States Government are seizing all munitions of war intended for the insurgents in the Republic of Chili, and no…

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The Riots in China. the British Consul Wounded

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--Further particulars have been received with respect to the rioting at Woohoo, a Chinese province on the Yang-Tze River, about 50 miles…

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