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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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The British Shipowners' Federation has given notice to its employees of a proposed reduction in the rate of wages. The sailors have decided to resist the reduction…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London, January 17.-A terrible disaster is reported from Russia. A train conveying a large number of young soldiers caught fire, and 50 of the soldiers were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A train in Russia caught fire, and 50 young soldiers were burned to death…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Tuesday Night.--Telegrams from St. Petersburg give particulars of a terrible railway accident which has occurred at Slatoust, in Russia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sickened, perhaps, of playing literary satyr, the author of "La Bete Humaine," has lifted up his brow to execute a master, piece, which is the prose epic of modern…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, January 20.-Riots of a very serious nature have taken place at Amsterdam, where the socialists and unemployed took possession of the streets and looted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A cablegram dated London, January 12, announced the death of Benjamin Franklin Butler, the celebrated Union Army officer in the American Civil War. Butler was in his 74th year…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Public meetings have been held at Limerick at which resolutions were passed demanding the release of John Daly, the Irish prisoner who was sentenced at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.--Telegrams from Berlin report that the Russian Government are massing large bodies of troops on the Polish frontier, and are pushing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Further fighting has taken place on the Burmah frontier between a force of the rebel Kachins and a detachment of British troops. The Kachins attempted to block…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is reported from Berlin that the Russian Government is massing troops on the Polish frontier, and hastening the completion of a number of strategic railways,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Europe the periodical alarm occasioned by this cry seems to increase in intensity each succeeding year, and a general consensus oi opinion prevails that the mighty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The world contains many beauty spots with which, unfortunately, I am unfamiliar. Middle Head, however, is not one of them. In intimate knowledge of that sun-bleached hummock which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is stated that the object of the Grand Duke Sergius of Russia in undertaking his recent journey to the European capitals was to ascertain the feeling in each country on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Vienna correspondent of the STANDARD reports that the attitude of the Russian Government in massing troops on the Polish frontier permits of no delusion as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.--The Vienna correspondent of the Standard confirms the report that Russia is massing large bodies of troops on the Polish frontier and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday Night.--From St. Petersburg it is announced that the object of the recent visit of the Grand Duke Sergius to European capitals was to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Messrs. Paul Deronlede and Pechon, members of the French Chamber of Deputies, fought a duel with swords this morning near Paris. The meeting was caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Monday Night.--Another duel was fought near Paris to-day by M. Paul Déroulède, who, on December 22, fought M. Clémeneeau, when three shots were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The New South Wales Government has made an application to the War Office to select an artillery officer of the latest scientific knowledge to succeed…
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