The Bushmen's Contingent has been evolved in about a month That is a fact the full effect of which cannot be properly approciated by persons who have not watched its growth-followed at first ...
Article : 1,456 wordsThe Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of Stato for the Colonios, replying in the House of Commons last night to a question put by Mr. J. F. Hogan, ...
Article : 94 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller crossed the Tugela on Wednesday by a pontoon bridge and drove back the enemy's rearguard stationed between the river and ...
Article : 260 wordsNews' has just reached London from the seat of war that General Cronje, the Boer Commander in the Free State, has been surrounded by the British forces ...
Article : 113 wordsRondebosch, where Trooper Paterson,"of the New Zealanders, has died of euteric fever, is just five miles out of Capetown, and in this suburb is situated the famous residence of Mr Rhodes, Groot Schuur. ...
Article : 108 wordsIn connection with the army increase scheme formulated by the War Office, a bounty of £22 has been offered to ex-soldiers rejoining the Reserve for a year, ...
Article : 66 wordsIn reference to the cablegram in yesterday's issue, stating that the Now South Wales Lancers held tho extreme right flank of the British troops in tbe action between the Ri[?]t ...
Article : 231 wordsThe casualties sustained by Lord Roborts's force relate to his advance guard. The battle was still raging yesterday. ...
Article : 123 wordsA force of 200 Australians, under Captain J. G. Legge (Now South Wales Infantry), Captain F. H. Howland (South Australian Mounted Infantry), and ...
Article : 97 wordsThe British Government has invited the Shah of Persia, Muznffor-ed-Din, to visit England. ...
Article : 25 wordsColonel Plumer, who is advancing to the relief of Mafeking, made a night attack upon the enemy at Crocodile Pools on the 12th instant. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Hon. W. Mulock, Q.O., Postmaster-General of Canada, declares that if the proposed concessions to the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company are granted the ...
Article : 159 wordsIt is proposed to erect a tablet in memory of the late Corporal Kilpatrick, of the Lancers, who was killed in the war. As soon as the cables announced his death, Mr. Hawthornee, M.L.A., as chairman of ...
Article : 161 wordsSixteen officers of Major-General Macdonald's Highland Brigade have been wounded and two killed up to Sunday last. '?. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe burgher roll-call incriminates many of the disloyalists who were captured at Dordrecht when the town was recently occupied by the British. ...
Article : 28 wordsCommandant Forreira, of the Free State forces, who was previously in command of the Free Staters before Kimberley, was killed at Koodoes Rand. ...
Article : 29 wordsCommander Dutoit, a Boer leader, acknowledges having retreated to Riverton, north of Kimberley, and that the British cavalry captured all his guns. ...
Article : 30 wordsDespite the signs of mourning for the Canadians killed in the fighting at Koedoes Rand, near Klip Drift, on the Modder River, a scene of indescribable ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Premier has received through the LieutenantGovernor a cable message from Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner for South Africa, but as there is no mention made in ...
Article : 284 wordsA Bavarian political newspaper, "Neueste Nachrichten," 'in an inspired paragraph, tenders President Kruger hearty German hospitality. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn the Canadian House'of Commons Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Premier, announced that 20 Canadians had been killed and 69 wounded in the fighting at ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Boer forces under Commandant Cronje, who is now in retreat, evading the notice. of the British on Saturday, crossed south of the Modder River before ...
Article : 88 wordsMr. G. Musgrove and Miss Nellie Stewart will return to Melbourne in September. The latter will appear in pantomime at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr.Rutter Clarke has contributed £100 to the Indian Famine Fund. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe House of Commons last night refused by 286 votes to 152 to reopen the inquiry into the Jameson raid. ...
Article : 26 wordsA shooting fatality occurred this morning at the Gums station, Penshurst, resulting in the death of Wm Ross, a well-known resident of the district and formerly a member of the ...
Article : 242 wordsTho death is announced of Mr. Henry Duff Traill, D.C.L., the well-known journalist, and editor of " Literature," aged 58. ...
Article : 249 wordsThe news received to-day indicatea that the siege of Ladysmith, is being raised, and there are many evidences of panie having seized the Boers who were guarding tho banks of the Tugela ...
Article : 1,277 wordsA committee of gentlemen recently desired to offer to the Home Government a number of waggons for transport service in South Africa. The Premier forwarded a telegram to the War Office desiring to ...
Article : 83 wordsMajor-Goneral Lord Kitchener's and Lieutenant-General T. Kelly-Kenny's (6th division) troops and the Highland Brigade under Mojor-General Hector ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. Barry, a leading merchant of Montreal, Canada, has volunteered at his own expense to replace his brother, who was killed in the fighting at Koodoes ...
Article : 34 wordsThe follower of family names ni South Africa has. only to watch the news of the day to become more and more absorbed inu the great problem of the present war. It must be said there are but ...
Article : 294 wordsIt appears that an extra supply of meat for South Africa was offered to the Imperial Government for shipment by the troopships now leaving, but according to a telegram received yesterday by the Premier ...
Article : 44 wordsResidents of Kimberley describe in graphic language the harrowing privations suffered during the invostment by women and children, who lived in the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Imperial postal authorities have intimated that, for the convenience of her Majesty's forces serving in South Africa, an A[?]my Post Of[?]ice has bean established to perform all duties counnected with ...
Article : 194 wordsWhen tho employees of the Kalgoorlio Council opened the offices this morning they had occasion to go inte the Mayor's room, where they saw the town clerk (Mr. J. C. Scandrett) lying on a sofa, ...
Article : 322 wordsThe members of the North Shore Rowing Club gave a reunion on Wednesday at the Queen's Hotel, Alfred-street, North Sydney, in honour of Corporal Horace C. Watern, a member of the club, ...
Article : 1,686 wordsThe first meeting of the year of the Women's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Auimals was held on the 22nd instant at the Town Hall. In the absence of Lady Harris, Mrs. John Marks ...
Article : 226 wordsTho casualties among tho officers of Lord Roberts's advancing force up to Sunday night last were Lioutenant-Colonel W. Ald worth, D.S.O. (Duke of Cornwall's ...
Article : 82 wordsNews from Mafeking, which is still invested by the enemy, states that Colonel Baden-Powell placed the Boer prisoners in the women's laager and the hospital, in ...
Article : 48 wordsAt a meeting of the executive committee of the Bushmeu's Corps it was announced that the Australian Mutual Provident and the National Mutual Life Associations were prepared to insure the lives of the ...
Article : 122 wordsAt any moment we now might hear of the relief of Ladysmith, for, according to the cables, Dr. Leyds has declared that General Joubert, finding his position untenable, ordered the Boere in Natal to ...
Article : 452 wordsThe troopship Waiwera, with the New Zealand second contingent on board, has arrived at Durban.,J' ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 23 wordsThe Free Stat[?] commandant De Wet claims that the Free Staters stormed several kopjes between, Koodoes Rand and Paardo Berg, which tha British evacuted, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 50 wordsThe Mayor's list of the Empire Patriotic Fund amounts to £18,444, and " Argus " list to £5040. The subscriptions to the Tommy Atkins Fund amount to 69,391 shillings. About £15,000 has been ...
Article : 75 wordsTrooper Patterson, of the New Zealand first contingent, died from enterie fever at Rondebosch. Lieutenaut Neave, a New Zealander,. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 23 Feb 1900, Page 7
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