In the House of Lords yesterday, Lord Rosebery made an impassioned speech, in which he dealt at length with the military situation. ...
Article : 410 wordsVALEDICTORY.—A pleasant evening was spent on Thursday last at Mount Eliza Depot, when the officials and friends assembled to wish bon voyage and a safe and ...
Article : 2,840 wordsThe Times confirms the statement that there are 20,000 troops at Kushk, which is situated on the Afghan frontier. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe bye election for Plymouth, rendered necessary by the resignation of Sir Edward Clarke, was held yesterday, when the Hon. Ivor ...
Article : 103 wordsIn connection with the relief of Kimberley, no mention has yet been made as to whether General French met with any opposition. Neither is ...
Article : 508 wordsNews has been received ria Delagoa Bay to the effect that Private W. J. Burrows, of the Victorian Mounted Rifles, severely wounded, and ...
Article : 51 wordsFrom the list of wounded and captured Victorian Mounted Rifles at Rensburg on Monday last, which was published yesterday, that of ...
Article : 37 wordsThe wheat markets are firm, and quiet. Ten thousand quarters of Victorian shipped on February 15 have been sold at 29s. 7½d. For January ...
Article : 172 wordsLord Roberts has summoned Sir William MacCormac, the eminent surgeon who is superintending the Field Hospital Service in South Africa, ...
Article : 43 wordsDr. Newnham, Anglican Bishop of Moosonee, in the Canadian province of Rupertsburgh, has received, at the hands of the Eskimo, a story which ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. W. St. John Brodrick, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, was interrogated in the House of Commons, yesterday, as ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Boers, on Sunday last, were found, as the result of a British reconnaissance, to be approaching Potgieter's Drift. They have constructed ...
Article : 324 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Chamberlain stated that the Government of Natal were unable to hold themselves responsible for ...
Article : 128 wordsThe French forces operating in West Africa have captured King Rabah's fortress at Kuma, after defeating 12,000 natives and killing ...
Article : 37 wordsA large force of Boers whilst making its way from Rensburg, with ten guns, to reinforce Cronje, on the west side of the Free, State ...
Article : 178 wordsAlderman Jabez Wright has been elected Mayor of Broken Hill for the ensuing twelve months. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe German Government have decided to add 38 batteries of machine guns to the German army. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe constabulary of Sheffield are being trained in the use of the rifle. ...
Article : 23 wordsA horrible charge was investigated in the Geelong Police Court on Saturday, when a carrier named Joseph Long was proceeded against on a charge of having ...
Article : 251 wordsThe flying column under Colonel Addison, which is operation in Zululand, and whose object was reported to be to harass the enemy north of ...
Article : 96 wordsOwing to the Transvaal war, the committee of the Marylebone C.C. have decided upon the abandonment of the tour of a cricketing team to ...
Article : 52 wordsLord Roberts has now about 50,000 men on the Free State frontier or over the border, including General French's mounted corps at Kimberley. ...
Article : 383 wordsIt is reported that General Jonbert, the Boer Commandant-General, had ordnance maps of South Africa printed at Zurich, in Switzerland, a ...
Article : 33 wordsThe following are the latest quotations for the under-mentioned Australasian mining stocks:—Associated (W.A.), £6 15s.; Broken Hill ...
Article : 61 wordsColonel H. A. Eagar, of the Royal Irish Rifles, who was wounded and captured at Stormberg on the occasion of General Gatacre's reverse, has ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. Richard Robson, M.L.A., addressed his constituents in the Masonic Hall last night. He said he had recently, at a semiprivate function, accused the Government ...
Article : 129 wordsMiss Johnston, of Wellington, New Zealand, who is now in London, has given Mr. W. P. Reeves, the Agent-General for New Zealand, fifteen field ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 81 wordsSir J. A. Cockburn, Agent-General for South Australia, was one of the principal speakers at the King's College extension dinner yesterday. ...
Article : 88 wordsColonel Plumer, of the Rhodesian Field Force, is reported to have had a lively artillery duel with 600 Boers at the Crocodile Pools, a station on ...
Article : 60 wordsThe annual Conference of Australasian Railway Commissioners will be opened at Parliament House on Monday morning at 10.30. Representatives of the following ...
Article : 73 wordsMajor Compton's Volunteer Corps of Electrical Engineers has been incorporated with the army. This valuable scientific body will ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has dismissed the New Zealand Midland Railway Company's appeal case, with costs. ...
Article : 27 wordsReports received from the war correspondents accompanying the army of invasion in the Orange Free State speak in glowing terms of the conduct ...
Article : 283 wordsThe British force which has been operating from Rensburg in the direction of Colesberg has retired to Arundel. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Imperial Government have charted the R.M.S. Austral as a troopship. ...
Article : 22 wordsMajor-General the Hon. N. G. Lyttleton has, it is announced, succeeded General Sir C. F. Clery as Commander of the 2nd Division of ...
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Advertising : 283 wordsThe British reserve fleet is coaling preparatory to putting to sea. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 19 Feb 1900, Page 5
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