It is stated in connection with General Buller's operations in Natal that extensive tiers of formidable roofed and shell-proof trenches at ...
Article : 101 wordsA fire broke out at 2 o'clock this afternoon in a building in Marine-terrace occupied by Mr. David Hepburn. The residence adjoins the fire station and in a short ...
Article : 171 wordsA despatch from Ottawa states that serious differences have arisen between Sir Wilfred Laurier, the Canadian Premier, and Major-General ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 5,800 wordsReports continue to be circulated to the effect that Cronje has been surrounded. It is stated that General French ...
Article : 91 wordsIn the French Chamber of Depties yesterday General Galliffet, the Minister of War, announced that the troops in August next would be armed ...
Article : 71 wordsJames Synott was charged to-day with sly-grog selling at Kurawong siding. Severe remarks were made by the Bench as to the extent of sly-grog ...
Article : 75 wordsGeneral Cronje, at the head of a force 5,000 strong, with heavy guns, left Magersfontein on Thursday. He appears to have trekked across ...
Article : 103 wordsAt a meeting of the Town Council, held last night, it was decided to request the Premier that the local water system at Fish Ponds and all the revenue derived ...
Article : 74 wordsDespite the ministerial crisis, both houses of the Newfoundland Parliament have agreed to an extension of the modus vivendi relating to the ...
Article : 32 wordsAt the wool sales to-day merinos were about a penny lower than a month back. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,355,000 bushels, and for the Continent 960,000 bushels. ...
Article : 46 wordsJohn Foster was arraigned in the Criminal Court to-day on a charge of having unlawfully wounded Amy Alice Peterson with intent to commit murder. The facts ...
Article : 193 wordsIn consequence, it is presumed, of the energy with which Lord Roberts is pessing the invasion of the Orange Free State, the Boers are leaving ...
Article : 35 wordsA further report has been received respecting the recent capture by the Boers of a British convoy of two hundred waggons at the Riet River. It ...
Article : 82 wordsPractically all the Boers have cleared out of the British territery between the Modder and Kimberley, between which places the trains service ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Australian Mortgage and Agency Company's shares are quoted at £105. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Boer position on Hlangwane Hill, to the south of the Tugela, has been evacuated. General Buller now occupies all the hills south of the ...
Article : 46 wordsFor the last few days the weather has been extremely oppressive. After a remarkably fine January, one of the best that has been experienced for very ...
Article : 223 wordsLord Roberts has left Jacobsdaal, and is now at Paarde Berg, thirty miles further to the eastward. [Paarde Berg is, according to the maps, ...
Article : 40 wordsWilliam Robert Jones, charged with the murder of the little girl named Rita Jones, was placed in the dock this afternoon on the return of the jury from Broadford, ...
Article : 147 wordsLater accounts of the relief of Kimberley state that a number of Australian troops, who had been guarding the communications at the Orange ...
Article : 365 wordsThe outskirts of Pretoria have; it is reported, been undermined by the Boers preparatory to the siege of the capital, now regarded as inevitable. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe War Office is in receipt of an interesting telegraphic despatch from General Buller, who states that the enemy, have practically abandoned ...
Article : 112 wordsThe inquiry into the murder of Cyrus Macfarlane, at Grafton, on the 10th inst., concluded to-day. Jas. Murphy was present in custody. A statement in ...
Article : 146 wordsOwing to Commandant De la Rey's force having been withdrawn from the north of Cape Colony for the purpose of reinforcing Cronje, there are ...
Article : 54 wordsA painful case was heard in the Criminal Court to-day, when a young woman, named Margaret Heffernan, was placed in the dock on a charge of having murdered her ...
Article : 266 wordsThere was a striking military demonstration in Capetown yesterday, when the newly - arrived Canadian and Australian contingents ...
Article : 59 wordsJohn Close, aged 50, who was recently a quarryman at Kiama, has died at the Goulburn Hospital from collapse following upon starvation and exposure. He ...
Article : 40 wordsThe report that the Boers, who had been entrenched in the neighbourhood of Colenso, were in full retreat has been confirmed. ...
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Advertising : 255 wordsThe Queen, who has returned to Windsor from Osborne, has issued an appeal to all former officers and privates capable of service to join the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe war correspondents of the Times and Standard, who are with the army in Natal, believe that the Free Staters and Transvaalers are ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 22 Feb 1900, Page 5
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