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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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I want all my little friends to not only send in their own donations, but to collect from their playmates and friends, and send in their names also…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →OUR special, who has been in many hot spots lately and encountering [?]e Beers, writes a rather tragic account of the actualties of shampagning. He accompanied the columns…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Private J. Murray, one of the tallest and youngest of the first Victorian Contingent, writes home a letter, from which is extracted:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GENERALS Buller, Warren and Lyttleton are gradually closing in on the enemy's main body between Colense and Ladysmith. It is probable that a severe battle will take…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Premier this morning received a cablegram from Sir Alfred Milner, British High Commissioner in South Africa, which stated that information had been received from Pretoria to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. John: Young, the oresident of the New South Wales Bowling Association, arrived in Sidney with Mrs. Young on Saturday morning by the mail steamer Orizaba, after an extended tour abroad…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The " Siecle," commenting on Dr. Leyda's letter to a London newspaper relative to the question of Catholic disabilities in the Transvaal, says that the intolerance of the Boers is well known, and they do…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A set of instructions have been Issued to officers commanding battalions on their way to the Cape to deliver lectures on board on the geography of the country, the lessons to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From the South African papers we are enabled to read the Boer descriptions of the various engagements. In the "Standard and Diggers' News," published in Pretoria on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MISS MATCHETT…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Empire War Fund opened by the Mayor of Melbourne has reached £6059…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lieutenant P. W. C. Drape, who has gone to South Africa with the Mounted Infantry unit, is a native of England, and 31 years of ago. He has [?]yed in Australia since…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Saturday.--The barque Marie, with a cargo of Australian flour intended for the Boers, has been seized at Delagoa Bay by the British cruises, and brought to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A military church parade, in the interests of the New South Wales Patriotic Fund, was conducted in the Wesleyan Church, King-street, Newtown, yesterday afternoon. Over a hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steadily, and with much determination, is General Buller moving his men in Natal Detachaments have gone out in two directions, and are now close to Ladysmith, which will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shells and flies," says a message from Ladysmith, "are very numerous, but the latter are the most annoying." Proper wood and iron houses have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It was recently slated that fever had broker, out among the Ladysmith garrison, and it is now reported that the well-known war correspondent Mr. G. W. Steevens, the author…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. G. W. Steevens, the special correspondent for the "Daily Mail," has died at Ladysmith from fever…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is reported that the crossing of the Tugela by Sir Charles Warren's force was carried out on pontoons constructed by the Royal Engineers in two hours—the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Surgeon-Lieutenant M'Cartie, Indian Medical Service, has a very instructive, series of papers in the "Indian Medical Gazette" on the subject of heat apoplexy amongst soldiers in this country,…
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