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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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A sensational affair, which may lead to serious trouble, is reported from the Russo -German frontier. A body of Russian dragoons came…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Nictheroy, a cruiser equipped in New York for President Peixoto's fleet, has arrived at Bio de Janeiro. In the recent fighting between the…
Continued on Trove, page 430 →LONDON, Thursday Night.--Mr. A. J. Balfour, the leader of the Conservative Opposition, replying to Mr. Gladstone's strictures on the House of Lords, and his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A serious engagement between the insurgents and the Presidential forces is reported from Brazil. The insurgents were defeated in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Sunday. -- Prince Bismarck, speaking on the subject of the proposed commercial treaty between Germany and Russia, said that the rejection of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Brazilian Government troops have routed the insurgent forces at Sorandi, in the province of Rio Grande do Sul, killing 400 and capturing many prisoners,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A serious engagement between the insurgents and the Presidential forces is reported from Brazil. The insurgents were defeated in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, March 5.—The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, British Ambassador in Paris, in addressing a meeting of the French Chamber of Commerce to-day, said it would…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AUCKLAND, Monday.--A serious shooling accident happened to-day at Pothill, near Wellington. A boy named John Bolton was playing with a revolver, which he did not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—Another serious attempt at burglary occurred at Williamstown at 3 o'clock this morning, when a fruiterer's shop, kept by a Mrs. Smith, was broken into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest news from the British force in Gambia, West Africa, states that one of the villages of the slave-dealers was occupied by British troops…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It has (says the Globe) "long been the wish of officers in the local military forces of the Australian colonies to possess the entree to the artillery and engineer branches of the Imperial Army. Under the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A severe engagement between British troops and slavers is reported from Busumbatta, Gambia. Heavy firing took place, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reports from South Africa confirm the announcement of the death of King Lobengula. He died from form on January 23. He was alone when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two thousand workmen employed in the Enfield Small Arms Factory have petitioned the War Office authorities to be allowed to return to the system of nine…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Notwithstanding the anticipated peaceful intentions of the Czar of Russia the Russian army is being rapidly placed on a war footing. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The British fleet on the "West African coast has been ordered to proceed to extreme measures for the suppression of the slave-dealers' forces in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Washington, February 7.—There are not enough men onlisted in the navy to properly man the United States ships which will go into commission before the 1st of May, and, moreover, the limit set by the law…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Shocking dynamite plot is reported from America. A body of minors employed at Eagle Rock, Idaho, having had some…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It is reported that Count Von Caprivi, the German Imperial. Chancellor, intends to resign his position. It is rumored that he has decided upon…
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