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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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Some natives have reported that Captain Wilson's scouts defeated King Lobengula's impis on 4th December beyond the Shangani. Lobengula fled on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London, Saturday Night.--News from Matabeleand is to the effect that Major Forbes, who is in command of a detachment of the British South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The war in which the restless pugnacity of the powers will find vent, and their expenditure on arms and armanents be justified, will, according to no less an authority…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →From time to time during the last two or three years The Tidily Telegraph has called attention to the march of events in the direction of war as they have occurred, especially…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Despatches from South Africa report that the Matabele have made four attacks upon the British South Africa Co.'s forces under Major Forbes. The natives were, however,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The preliminaries of the complications in Matabeleland that have now to be dealt with date further back than 1888. In October, 1888, Messrs. C. D. Rudd,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, December 26.—The Hon. Cecil Rhodes, Premier of Cape Colony, has cabled to London announcing that the Matabeles have been entirely subjugated, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Monday Night.--The Kabyles, in the south-eastern portion of Morocco, who in June last unsuccessfully rose in revolt against the Sultan, have paid the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Hon. Cecil Rhodes, Premier of Cape Colony, has cabled to London announcing that the Matabele have been entirely subjugated. Lobengula has fled,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The news from the north continues of a re -assuring and satisfactory character (says the Johannesburg STAR), latest messages from the front being to the effect that Lo…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London, December 27.—Serious riots have occurred among the native miners on the Witwatersrandt gold field, near Johannesburg, South African Republic. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A young woman named Martha Helmsley had a narrow escape from death by shooting last evening, her assailant being a man named Lewis, a carpenter by trade, with whom she…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday, 1 p.m.--Telegrams from the Cape give particulars of a fierce fight which has taken place between the miners and the negro employes at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No farther news of a definite character has reached Capetown concerning Captain Wilson, who followed Lobengula across the Shaugani River, with a detachment from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The distress amongst the laboring classes in Sicily is becoming more acute, and the starving workers are adopting means of violence. Repeated riots are occurring…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The PALL MALL GAZETTE has published a private cable message received from South Africa with reference to the campaign against the Matabele, The cable states that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London, December 28.—Official reports to hand from South Africa state that it is feared that Captains Wilson and Burrows's parties have been slaughtered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday, 1 p.m.--Telegrams from the Cape give particulars of a fierce fight which has taken place between the miners and the negro employes at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Private telegrams received in London from South Africa state that Captain Wilson's force which pursued Lobengula across the Shangani River has been cut…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir Henry Loch, High Commissioner for South Africa, does not believe the reported massacre of Captain Wilson's force by the Matabele. Captain Wilson, he says, is a…
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