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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The Spanish gunboat Relampago, operating against the Cuban rebels, has been destroyed by torpedoes in the Cauto River…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Spanish gunboat Relampago, which was operating against the rebels in Cuba, has been blown up by torpedoes in the Cauto River…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Within the last week the hon. secretary of the Australasian Federation League has sent to all the municipal councils and other public bodies and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Daily News publishes a telegram from its New York correspondent to the effect that Mr. Richard Olney, the American Secretary of State, announces that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The breeze that has arisen over the mere suggestion that the Cardinal should exercise his civil and constitutional rights by acting on the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The "laws of war," as at present formulated by the civilised nations, forbid the use of poison against the enemy; murder by treachery, as, for example,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A LARGELY-ATTENDED meeting was held on Saturday, afternoon last at the Guild Hall to make the necessary arrangements to select a tug-of-war team to represent ireland at the forthcoming sports…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The enterprise of despatching a troop of mounted rifles from New South Wales to England, to exhibit in a practical sort of way the material which…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A large meeting of Irishmen was held on Sunday afternoon at the Guild Hull, Castlereagh-street, to make final arrangements for the selection of the Irish…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Particulars are to hand by mail of the recent sensational shooting case which occurred on January 12 at Newtown, a suburb of Wellington. The chief…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An old soldier named Charles Hawking, 84 years of age, applied for help to the, police to-day, and was sent to the Immigrants' Home, He said he had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I see by your last issue that the Irishmen are bestirring themselves to ensure a good representative team at the above tug-of-war. And I hope the Australian natives will set to work and be…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →When the Swallow was refitted the friendly savages were rewarded for their kindness, and the ship sailed for Macao, in South China, one of the few ports in that country open to European…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Orders for all the ships of last year's programme hare now been placed, the remaining three second-class cruisers having been contracted for by the Fairfield and the London and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Friday.--In the House fo Lords last night the Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary of State for War announced that the army had been increased by 7383 men…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →JOHANNESBURG, December 26.--The Transvaal, which might well be described as the laud of niggers, millionaires, and paupers, with a few tradespeople to supply their needs, is just now…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →ONE of the names most honourably identified with Scottish Methodism, and the Glargow North West Mission especially,, is that of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Viscount Wolseley, the Commander-in-Chief, last night delivered the opening lecture of the Philosophical Institution in the Music-hall, Edinburgh (reports the London Daily Telegraph of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Saturday.--Reports from Crete state that severe lighting has taken place between the Christians and the Moslems in the streets of Canea, the capital, the Turkish…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, February 8.—The "Daily News" states that the Russian Black Sea fleet has been placed on a war footing at Sebastopol, and that two regiments of…
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