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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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An international tug-of-war tournament, open to all nations, will be held in Melbourne in a fortnight, each team to be composed of 10 men of the following nationalities:—England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales,…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →LONDON, December 23— Thirty-five laborers have lost their lives in a heavy snowstorm in the province of Abruzzo, Italy…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →AUCKLAND, Saturday.—The R.M.S. Mariposa, which arrived here yesterday, brings news from Samoa to December 26, which goes to show that a native war is deemed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AUCKLAND, Friday.--News to hand by the Mariposa from Samoa to December 26 goes to show that a native war is now deemed inevitable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following cable from London reached Sydney on Thuroday :- Mr. Honore Mercier, ex-Premier of the province of Quebec, Canada, who was recently deposed,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →WELL as the story of the charge of the Light Brigade is known, bits of the history of that memorable battle are never brought to light without exciting interest. Following is a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, December 23— Eight soldiers of the Russian Imperial Guard have been condemned to death at St. Petersburg for the murder of citizens, whom they…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Affairs at Samoa are still very unsettled, according to news received by the R.M.S Mariposa. The Samoaun Times of December 26 says: -- "All this week rumors have been abroad that the Government was making…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Newtown Police Court yesterday Marian Jones, a very prepossessing young brunette, was charged with assaulting Elizabeth Winning. The assault was said to have taken place in a back…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE difference between doing and palavering, already so marked between the present Government and the late one, is again manifest in the prompt determination of the Premier to appoint…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →AFFAIRS at Samoa are still very unsettled, according to news received on Tuesday by the R.M.S. Mariposa. The Samoan Times of December 25 says:-" All this week rumours have been abroad…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Yesterday afternoon a serious shooting affray occurred at the residence of George Murray, a South Sea Islander, in Lower River-street, Maclean, during which Murray's daughter, 8 years of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →AT 12.15 o'clock on the afternoon of December 4 last a small, shabbily- dressed man, apparently about 25 years old, carrying a brown leather handbag, called at Russell…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE following extracts from a letter received by a resident of Sydney from a friend in Chili deal with tho terrible struggles of tho civil war a few months…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THERE is still another and perheps more important tant any sustaining power which. the Irish soldier his; he believes in his religion. With him (writes General B. F. Butler, of the British…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Paris FIGARO predicts that the dispute in connection with the British occupation of Egypt will only terminate in a European war. The paper discusses the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Frank Lane, who is attending to "Parson" Davis' interests in arranging the forthcoming international tug-of-war at the Mechanics Building, in Boston, bus [?]red American,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Emperor William of Germany, it is reported, has had ah interview with the generals of the German Army, the result of which is said to be that the officers expressed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, January 13.—The Technical Committee which was deputed by the French Government to study the question as to the best means of victualling Paris…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Technical Committee which was deputed by the French Government to study the question as to the best means of victualling Paris in the event of the city…
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