LONDON, December 12.—Colonel Baden-Powell reports that Mafeking was "all well" on November 30. A 100-pounder Boer gun had been silenced. ...
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Advertising : 2,008 wordsLONDON, December 12.—Prince Hohenlohe, the Imperial Chancellor, introduced in the German Reichstag yesterday a bill providing for a large increase in the navy. The number of ...
Article : 119 wordsLONDON, December 12.—A force of Boers, estimated to number 2000 men, is destroying the railway near Colesberg, with the view of cutting the British line of communication. ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, December 12.—A sortie was made from Ladysmith on Friday last towards Bulwana Hill, where the enemy had stationed a big gun. The Boers were compelled to retire. ...
Article : 75 wordsLONDON, December 11, 4.5 p.m.—The Government of Denmark has offered to sell the Danish West India Islands to the United States for £600,000. ...
Article : 48 wordsLONDON, December 11, 4.5 p.m.—The death is announced of Lord Penzance, formerly President of the Court of Probate and Divorce, at the age of 83. ...
Article : 30 wordsLONDON, December 12.—A battery of artillery and a battalion of the Scots Guards have reinforced the British at Sterkstroom, on the East London railway, about 30 miles south of Molteno. ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON, December 12.—Lieutenant-General Sir G. S. White, in command at Ladysmith, has sent to General Sir Redvers Buller by pigeon post plans of the Boer position around ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, December 12.—An official inquiry has been held into the circumstances of the collision off the Newport lighthouse, Suez Bay, in August last, between the Orient R.M.S. Orizaba, ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, December 12.—The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons) have arrived at Capetown. The horses have been dyed khaki color. ...
Article : 26 wordsLONDON, December 12.—The Boer commando at Colenso, south of Ladysmith, has six guns. ...
Article : 19 wordsLONDON, December 12.—At the instance of the belligerents Great Britain has, through the Netherlands Government, agreed to furnish lists of the Boers taken prisoners, and also particulars ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, December 11.—The wool sales closed this evening, prices being fully 5 per cent, above those of the opening day. As compared with the closing rates of the October ...
Article : 432 wordsLONDON, December 11, 4.5 p.m.—The Boers are entrenched in a semi-circular hilly position across the railway at Jagersfontein, east of Spytfontein, and west of their former strongest ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, December 12.—The steamer Cornwall with the Queensland contingent, which left Sydney on November 7, has arrived at Port Elizabeth. ...
Article : 26 wordsLONDON, December 11, 4.5 p.m.—Mr. Geoffrey Sullivan, a Queenslander, has passed with honors the third Sandhurst examination in the use of the sword, and has been given a commission in the ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, December 11, 4.5 p.m.—When General Gatacre's column was surprised by the Boers in ambush near Stormberg the British infantry acted as coolly as if they were on parade. LONDON, December 12.—The Queen sent Sir Arthur John Bigge, K.C.B., her private secretary and equerry, to the War Office to inquire on behalf of her Majesty as to the British reverse at ...
Article : 193 wordsLONDON, December 12.—The Earl of Wemyss, Colonel of the London Scottish Volunteers, is enrolling a Volunteer Reserve of 500,000 men. Earl Grey, Administrator of the British South ...
Article : 68 wordsThe hon. treasurers, Messrs. J. Russell French and T. A. Dibbs, are in receipt of the following additional subscriptions: Amount previously acknowledged, £5398 18s 6d; "Evening News" and ...
Article : 150 wordsNEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—Trooper Albert M'Ewan, of the Imperial Light Horse, now in active service at the front in Natal, writing to his mother at Lambton under date, Ladysmith, ...
Article : 499 wordsLONDON, December 12.—The detachment of N.S.W.Lancers, under Captain Cox and the New Zealand troops, operating in the centre, and a body of Dragoons on the flanks, occupied Arundel. ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Wed 13 Dec 1899, Page 5
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