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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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A proposal has been made by the German Government for the appointment of a joint High Commission to represent the three Powers concerned in the control of Samoa,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The "New York Herald" states that Colonel John Hay, the United States Secretary of State, has informed Baron Von. Holleben, the German Ambassador at Washington, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.--The St. Petersburg University, the Technological Museum, and the Academy of Mining have been closed. This step has been taken in consequence of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six good teams have already entered for the tug-of-war championship tournament promoted by Mr. L. Foley, and there are indications that probably twenty will be on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Vancouver mail steamer Miowers, which arrived in the harbour yesterday, brings files of Canadian and San Francisco papers up to March S, from which the following information is extracted…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →So far as the actual body of the balloon goes, all the very careful work involved in making aerostats for the British Government is done by women and girls, most of these being the wives…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →An energetic traveller, with samples of a patent food for calves, called on a farmer and managed with some difficulty to induce him to try a ‘ free…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seldom has such a storm come upon a man as the storm which descended two months ago on Sir William Howard Russell, and raged over him last month. Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →We extract from the "Armée et Marine" (19th of February, 1899) (he following article, in which a superior officer of the French Army…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There is more than reason to suppose that the Easter encampment this year was in practical ways more successful than that of last year. In the first place the operation…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Considering the present weakness in the recruiting market, it is difficult to imagine anything more calculated to cause a further decline than the recent instance of men charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An accident, by which one man was killed and two others injured, occurred at the Great Cobar Copper Syndicate's mine, through No. 1 water jacket exploding. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Major-General Ellwell S. Otis has issued another proclamation to the people of the Philippines. On behalf of the United States, General…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Some American journals, particularly those in opposition to the M'Kinley Administration-are beginning to count the cost of tie Philippine war. Moreover, they…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,-I think your correspondents, "American" and "Englishman," show a want of knowledge of history and facts. The former says in his letter:—"The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir.—In view of the general publicity given in Europe to the Czar's peace proposals, would it not be well if an endeavour were made in Australia to explain more fully than has been done hitherto the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A shocking tragedy happened at the Eastern Market last evening. It appears that a phrenologist, who passes under the name of Medor, having conceived a grudge…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Early this evening a horrible tragedy was enacted in the Eastern Market, Bourke-street. Emery Gordon Medor, a phrenologist, carrying on business in the Market, fired a revolver shot at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Eastern Market was last night the scene of a tragedy. A phrenologist named Emery Gordon Medor, who is in business in the market, shot at a. Mrs. Stevens, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MANILA, March 1. -- From the beginning of the war in the Philippines by the Americans (not considering the naval engagement), with both Spaniards and Filipinos, the United States…
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