A special message to the "Cape Mercury," dated Queenstown, November 16 says:—Martial law was proclaimed in Queenstown this afternoon, and the court sittings suspended this morning. ...
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Advertising : 253 wordsMr. J. C. Williamson will reopen, the Theatre Royal this evening, when "The Only Way" will be presented for the first time in Australia. The play is an adaptation by Freeman Wills from ...
Article : 3,917 words"Our personal opinion is that the haughty British have been entirely taken by surprise—actually stunned—by the splendor of the Boer successes. The Royal Irish Fusiliers—or all the ...
Article : 240 words"We are going to taka this country and fly our flag on Table Mountain," said a Cape spy. "I tell you, man, England will never get the Transvaal. There are already 10,000 Germans in South ...
Article : 108 wordsThe "Volksstem" correspondent at Elands Laagte says that at Elands Laagte 120 railway waggons were captured. Many were loaded with coal, about 500 tons. The trucks captured at ...
Article : 87 wordsThe pluck of British officers—as Continental nations view it, their personal recklessness—is historical, and the large proportion of casualties in the commissioned ranks of the British forces in ...
Article : 308 wordsThe following was officially communicated to the South African newspapers:— Simon's Bay, on board H.M.S. Penelope, November 9, 1899. General Sir Redvers Buller, ...
Article : 707 wordsReuter's correspondent, writing from Kimberley, via Orange River, on November 8, says:—The Boers ceased shelling yesterday at 7 p.m., having practically fired all day, with intervals. ...
Article : 295 wordsIn a recent speech in London the Commander-in-Chief uttered certain words which may well be weighed at this juncture. Said Lord Wolseley: The aspiration now moving the Boers was that ...
Article : 327 wordsThe "Natal Advertiser" has heard a report that several spies have made good their escape by way of Zululand, via Lower Tugela. A man named Evans, who runs a boarding-house in Pretoria, ...
Article : 105 wordsMELBOURNE, Saturday.—At the ordinary general meeting of the shareholders in Goldsbrough, Mort, and Company, Limited, yesterday, Sir D. Zeal, chairman of directors, said business had ...
Article : 118 wordsDr. Briscoe, who had charge of the Red Cross train, related (says the Estcourt correspondent of the "Cape Mercury") an interesting interview with the Boer commandant. He met him after ...
Article : 228 wordslast night's sitting of Parliament concluded the session. After our late editions went to press last evening, in the Assembly the Capertee Tramway Bill was passed and returned to the Council. ...
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Advertising : 422 wordsA Maseru correspondent of the "Cape Mercury," under date November 16, says: The Boers are making frantic efforts to get Basuto laborers to go and reap for them, and are making all manner ...
Article : 214 wordsA "Gazette Extraordinary" was issued in Capetown, on November 17, containing a proclamation by the High Commissioner, declaring the commandeering of British subjects in the districts ...
Article : 81 wordsMartial regulations issued at Maritzburg on November 17, are notified that all canteens and liquor bare must be closed at 9 p.m. daily. No liquor is to be sold or supplied to any soldier ...
Article : 72 wordsMany private letters are now coming in to friends at home. In one of them an infantry officer writes: "We have just had handed over to us some quite unbroken mules. I much fear ...
Article : 186 wordsThe Governor of Natal received a telegram from the Governor of Mauritius on November 16, stating that the Council of the Government of Mauritius had that day voted £2000 to be placed at the ...
Article : 82 wordsAmong the Johannesburgers at present in Maritzburg is Count Sarigney, who, some time since, figured in a sensational amalgam dealing case, and brought an action against the "Digger's ...
Article : 62 wordsThere has been some foolish talk (says the "Law Journal") about the advisability of "making an example" of Colonel Schiel and other captured foreigners who have taken service with ...
Article : 185 wordsA refugee who lately joined the Imperial Light Infantry was one of the permit-favored of Johannesburg, and a farrier carrying on business on Marshall Square. He received an. order from ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Sat 23 Dec 1899, Page 3
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