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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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LONDON, Wednesday.--When the British Government recently protested against the Portuguese authorities permitting the Transvaal to import arms and ammunition by way…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It has transpired that in 1896 the Afrikander Bund party in the Cape House of Assembly secured the appointment of two examiners of Customs at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Captain Leslie Herbert Kyngdon, who goes to South Africa as an officer for special service, is aide-de-camp to Major-General French, captain in the New South Wales Regiment of the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, December 7.--The uncertainty which has existed respecting the position which the colonies taking part in the war in South Africa occupy with regard to the relief funds now being…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Little by little the news filters out from various sources of the corruption which has been in existence amongst officers presumedly loyal to the country which pays them for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Under the above heading the London "Daily Telegraph" correspondent writes from Capetown, on November 15, some very interesting information about the war and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Little Malta has collected over £1100 for the Mansion House Fund. Boer prisoners say that the rifle-fire of the English, though good, might be much…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British soldiers, in their letters home, abound in complaints about the generalship which led to the result of the battle of Magersfontein…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →According to messages received from newspaper correspondents on Tuesday no anxiety was felt as to the ability of Ladysmith to hold out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yesterday we printed an account of the case of Gunner Turner of "A" Battery, who left the steamer Warrigal without 'permission at Port Melbourne, but rejoined her a couple of days later at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →By the R.M.S. Warrimoo, which arrived from Vancouver on Tuesday last, Mr. J. Barre Johnston, the well-known merchant of this city, who was appointed by the Chamber of Commerce to represent that bady…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The number of successful sorties which, from time to time, the garrison of Ladysmith has been able to make with considerable measures of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, January 10.—The Household Squadron with General French operated on Sunday on the enemy's east flank. The Boers withdrew to protect their communication with Norval's Pont…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MOLONG, Thursday.—Mrs. Lance Smith, of Boree Station, is actively arranging with some ladies at Molong, Cudal, Larras Lake, etc.; to provide nightingale garments, or pyjama suits, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, January 11.—Twelve hundred Indian stretcher-bearers have left Durban for the front…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lord Roberts--with him Lord Kitchener--has arrived at Capetown, so that the Dunottar Castle has made a smart trip out, and maintained her reputation as a fast boat, for she was not due…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A wounded Boer informed a press correspondent, after the battle of Magersfontein, that the Boer leas was terrible; the whole Scandinavian contingent were destroyed. It is estimated,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The proposal, reported by cable this morning, to summon the Imperial Parliament to meet, at the end of tills month, is an indication that the seriousness of the South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MATRON ELLEN JULIA GOULD. Matron Ellen Julia Gould is superintendent of the Army Medical Nursing Reserve, a member of the Royal British Nursing Association, and a…
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