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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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Major Robert William Lenohan, who sailed for South Africa on Wednesday, as second in command of the Mounted Infantry unit, is a native of the colony, and 33 years of age. He was born at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Johannes Casper Bodeinstein, Chief Commissariat Officer, Krugersdorp, is among the Boer killed. An empty shop in Oxford-street, Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday.--The cargo of the German East African steamer Bundesrath, which was recently seized by H.M.S. Magieienne at Delagoa Bay upon suspicion of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Thursday Afternoon.—The following are items from American files by the Mariposa, additional to those cabled this morning:—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ALBANY, Friday.—The "Times" correspondent says that at Magersfontein many British wounded would only wet their lips with water, as they knew there were so many needing it. "During nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →From the cordon of police who were engaged on Wednesday keeping the crowd back from the line of march, many a hand was thrust forth to snatch a hasty clasp in that of some colleague who had a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—As a spectator at yesterday's magnificent demonstration of[?]loyalty to our Queen and country I only found one thing missing which to me would have improved the procession, and that was the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In consequence of the conspicuous success of the Australasian troops In South Africa, the "Standard" to-day has a leading article commenting upon the manner in which the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, January 17, 3.47 p.m.—Many Boers have left Stormberg and gone to Colesberg…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News has been received of the first blow of any note to Australian troops, reported from Rensburg, in northern Cape Colony, where some New South Wales Lancers and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, January 18, 4.25 p.m.—A patrol, consisting of sixteen men of the New South Wales Lancers and Adelaide Horse, got into a Boer ambush, near Rendsburg…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--General Buffer, in reporting some casualties, incidentally mentions having made a reconnaissance along the Tugela River near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General Sir Redvers Buller, in reporting casualties to the War Office, incidentally mentions a reconnaissance as having been made at the Tugela from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →No more remarkable illustration of the efficiency and promptitude of the British transport service could be given than the arrival already in England of some of those who were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fortune's buffets and rewards we must take "with equal thanks." The Australians killed and the others wounded and. surrendered in the recent ambush are, to put it into figures, but a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An Associated Press telegram from New York on December 12 to the Victoria "Daily Times" (British Columbia) says:—"A cable from London to the 'Journal and Advertiser' states that…
Continued on Trove, page 141 →The afternoon of Wednesday, the 17th, was gazetted as a half-holiday. The N.S.W. Second Contingent will embark from Woolloomooloo Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 136 →Lieutenant M'Inerney, who went with the first Victorian contingent, and in the absence of a priest conducted the Catholic devotions on the voyage, writing from the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →On Saturday evening the Goulburn Wesleyan Sabbath-school dispatched a parcel to Sydney containing twelve New Zealand flannel shirts, three Transvaal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, January 12.—The Queen has contributed to the Artists' War Fund for sale two works, one by her own hand, and [?]e by the Prince Consort…
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