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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
628 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 32
Colonel Sir Frederick Carrington, K.C.M.G., has been appointed military adviser to Sir Henry Loch, British High Commissioner in South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest reports from South Africa state that the Matabele impis express their intention not to retire from their present position to the Zambesi country, as it would be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The latest information from Cape Colony with respect to the Matabele difficulty is to the effect that King Lobengula has no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Despatches from the Cape report that no news of any description has been heard for the past 10 days respecting the British columns which were advancing from Fort…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →M. Laffon, Governor of New Caledonia, who recently arrived from Noumea on 12 months' leave, fought a duel iu Paris with the editor of the newspaper Libre Parole…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Later details respecting the fighting in Mashonaland state that Major Forbes burned many kraals and overtook and heavily defeated the Matabele adjacent to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Wednesday.--From the Cape Colony it is reported, that no intelligence has been received from the British columns at Fort Charter and Fort…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is expected that a decisive engagement will shortly take place at Hope's Fountain, towards which all the British South Africa Company's forces are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Despatches from the Cape report that a decisive battle has taken place in Mashonaland between the Chartered Co.'a forces and the Matabole under King Lobengula. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is not surprising, says the Standard, that statesmen and political students who look beneath the surface of things should be watching with the keenest interest eventsnow…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →South Africa (says the Daily Graphic) is on the brink of another war. The British South Africa Company have quarrelled with Lobengula, the powerful chief of the Matabele,…
Continued on Trove, page 959 →Last Saturday the first meeting of the Metropolitan Policemen, of "Dublin Mets" as they are shortly designated, took place, It was a great success, the weather attendance sport,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Advices from Cape Town state that a battle is expected to take place to-day on the Shangani River between the Matabeles and the British South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 950 →The Marquis of Ripon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has received a despatch from the Cabinet of Cape Colony protesting against the Imperial authorities undertaking…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, October 31. — The Chicago World'a Fair was closed yesterday. The total number of visitors to the fair during the period the Exhibition was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Further particulars have been received of the operations against the Matabeles. On 22nd October the British South Africa Company's forces bivouacked at Gwalo…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, Thursday Night.--Mr. Cecil J. Rhodes, the Premier of Cape Colony, claims the entire credit of the success of the British operations against the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The British Government has assured the Government of Spain that it has no intention of interfering in respect to the war which has broken out in Morocco between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday Night.--The British Government have assured the Spanish Government that they do not intend to interfere in the war which has broken out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Count Taaffe, who has retired from the position of Premier in Austria, will be succeeded by Prince Windschgratz, and it has been announced that the Universal Suffrage…
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