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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Thursday Afternoon.—The Union Company's steamer Manapouri, which arrived to-day from Samoa, brings news to the 16th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Contraband of War," by M.P. Shiel (Grant Richards's Colonial Library), is a vivid story of what an able man might have done in the late oonflict between Spain and the United…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In every [?]ar some of the bravest of the brave, who do deeds worthy of praise, are never known by name. This is true in an especial way of the late war between-Spain and the United States in…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Besides Lieut. Bernadou's account of the engagement at Cardenas on May 11, 1898, in which Ensign Bagley was killed and he himself wounded on his gunboat, the Winslow, the March "Cen…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An interview with the Rev. Arthur Robins, so well known as "The Soldiers' Bishop," occupies a prominent position in the March number of the "Windsor Magazine," and throws much light on…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Should Australia ever become engaged in a war it would do well to take reasonable precautions against the war correspondent. An American paper says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Press Association has been furnished With the following correspondence relating to the occupation of Omdurman. Mr. Lees Knowles; M.P., wrote from the House of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Major Younghusband is known as a distinguished soldier, an adventurous traveller, and an entertaining writer, and his new hook, which deals mainly with the…
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Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, May 29, 3.20 p.m.-The militiamen of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, have proved refractory, objecting to the discipline sought to be enforced by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BOWRAL, Monday,--An inquest was held this morning at the Cottage Hospital by the coroner, Mr. A. D. Badgery, into the death of Elijah Griffiths (22), who shot himself in the orderly-room…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A man named Benjamin Sloane was accidentally shot yesterday afternoon at Stuart Town by a neighbour named Frank Hubbard. The men have both suffered losses of sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following abstracts are made from files of English papers which reached Sydney yesterday:- Reuter's correspondent at Manila, in a fuller account of the fight at Guingua, says:—The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.--Serious labor riots have occurred at Riga, the Russian seaport. The military were called out, and the rioters were fired upon, with the result that five of their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Considerable notice has been taken in England of the statement made by Mr. Michael Davitt that the present Samoan troubles are the outcome of the action of the London Missionary Society,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, June 1.-The Armaments Committee of the Peace Conference, which, is sitting at the Hague, has recommended that the use in war of explosive bullets,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →President M'Kinley, in accordance with the request of General Otis, Commanderin-Chief of the United States Army in the Philippines, has decided to fix the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.--The Armaments Commission in connection with the Peace Conference at the Hague has vetoed the use of explosive bullets and "dum-dum". bullets, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Whew! We are just recovering breath after the perusal of "Contraband of War," by M. P. Shiel, This is a clever book of financial and high-political intrigue respecting the recent rupture between…
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