Several war correspondents have repeated the report that General Joubert, the Boer Commander-in-Chief, was killed on Thursday last. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe French Chamber of Deputies has passed a vote of confidence in the Ministry by a majority of 125. M. Waldeck-Rousseau, the Premier, ...
Article : 104 wordsIndirect evidence has been received that General Joubert, the Boer Commanderin-Chief, is alive. It is possible, however, that he has been ...
Article : 125 wordsColonel Baden Powell, with a force of 65 men, surprised the Boers in a night attack from Mafeking. Many of the enemy were bayoneted as they lay asleep. Commandant Botha asserts that ...
Article : 8,441 wordsDespite the fact that the flag of the Geneva Convention was flying over the building, the Boers bombarded the Roman Catholic Sanatorium at Ladysmith. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe final meeting of the general committee appointed by the citizens to make arrangements for the demonstration on the occasion of the departure of the last section of the New South Wales ...
Article : 152 wordsThe natives report that owing to repeated reverses on the western frontier many Boers have left Mafeking on their return to Pretorin. ...
Article : 29 wordsColonel Baden-Powell, with a small force, carried out a brilliant night attack upon the Boers outside Mafeking. The British get to close quarters with the ...
Article : 89 wordsMajor-General Sir William Francis Butler, K.C.B., in charge of the forces in the western district of England, was not present at the celebrations at Bristol in ...
Article : 63 wordsArrangements for insuring the members of the South Australian contingents are almost complete. The law officers of the Crown are at present engaged in the preparation of the necessary documents ...
Article : 104 wordsA Russian gunboat is reported to have sailed for the Persian Gulf. H.M.S. Renown is following, and is shadowing the Russian gunboat. ...
Article : 30 wordsA strong British column, under Lieutenant-Colonel Gough, going to the relief of Kimberley, was reported to be within 50 miles of that place on the 10th instant. ...
Article : 129 wordsA British column is marching to the relief of Kimberley. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Queensland troops which arrived by the Cornwall paraded at Albany yesterday. Private Wills, who is suffering from influenza, will not go on. Thomas St. George, the Sydney stowaway, wa ...
Article : 53 wordsThere are nearly 10,000 British troops at Estcourt, 39 miles south of Ladysmith. An early advance is contemplated. Nov. 17. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Boers looted Belmont, 56 miles south of Kimberley, and afterwards retired to Modder's River. ...
Article : 21 wordsTurkey has agreed to grant a concession to the Deutsche Bank Syndicate for an extension of the railway to Bussorah, the principal Turkish port in the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Chief Secretary has received a communication from the South African Leugue stating that the following resolution was passed at a mass meeting held in Capetown on September 2:—" This meeting ...
Article : 101 wordsMr. F. W. Reitz, the Transvaal Secretary of State, has officially made a threat that six British officers held as prisoners at Pretoria will be put to death if Nathan ...
Article : 68 wordsA Hungarian Judge, at Szabo, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for placing a prisoner under torture to extract a confession. ...
Article : 30 wordsAn armoured train with a half company of the Dublin Fusiliers, a half company of the Durban Light Infantry, and 10 sailors passed Chievely, 7 miles south of Colenso, ...
Article : 309 wordsThe committee has received applications from banks and industrial companies for further lists. A monster demonstration is to be held at Lismore on Wednesday, 29th instant, to maugurate a ...
Article : 321 wordsThe Atlantic liner, Canada, 8000 tons, has been chartered by the British Government as a transport for the conveyance of troops to South Africa. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Hamburg-American liner Patria, which caught fire in the North Sea and was subsequently run ashore, has been floated again and taken in tow by the ...
Article : 41 wordsFiles received from the Cape to-day give a full and interesting account of the exciting battle at Elands Laagte, which was fought on October 22. It is spoken of as being a particularly brilliant encounter, ...
Article : 932 wordsThe Lorenzo Marques (Delagoa Bay) cable, which was interrupted near Mozambique, has boen restored. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Rev. Dr. Ross Taylor, of Glasgow, has been chosen as moderator-elect of the Free Church of Scotland, and the Rev. Dr. Norman MacLeod, of Inverness, as ...
Article : 75 wordsWhilst Colonel Baden-Powell is more than holding his own at Mafeking there has been an " affair of outposts" near Colenso which turns out rather badly for our side. Taking the former item first we ...
Article : 648 wordsThe Leonid meteors were not seen in Great Britain, as the weather was cloudy. At New York a brilliant display of meteors was witnessed, and many were visible ...
Article : 88 wordsLast night a public meeting, convened by the Mayor in response to a requisition, decided to inaugurate a branch of the patriotic fund at Bowral. The Mayor (Alderman A. Stephens) presided. There ...
Article : 214 wordsBar silver is quoted at 2s 3d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe Governor is in receipt of information from the Secretary of State for the Colonies that in connection with the recent agreement between Great Britain and Germany the interests of ...
Article : 172 wordsA meeting was held in the Town Hall to-night to inaugurate a patriotic fund in West Maitland. Mr. John Gilies, in the absence of the Mayor, presided, but there was a small attendance, due doubtless to the ...
Article : 214 wordsA native missionary at Estcourt declares that on the 10th instant the Ladysmith volunteers drew the enemy into the open. The regulars then executed a ...
Article : 103 wordsBoth President Kruger and General Joubert, of the Transva[?]l, are said to have nephews residing in Wellington. It is stated that a motor [?]r company is making ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Langton Grange passed Cape Otway at 6.40 a.m. yesterday, and reported " all well." ...
Article : 18 wordsSydney Cricket Ground: Queensland v. New South Wales, noon. Trebelli Concert, Centenary Hall, 8 p.m. Grand Commonwealth Fair, Town Hall, 3. p.m. ...
Article : 229 wordsAt the Masonic Hall yesterday the Rev. E. Tremayne Du[?]stan, of the Pitt-street Congregational Church, Sydney, delivered an interesting lecture on the subject of " Briton and Boer, by One Who ...
Article : 427 wordsThe following telegrams were received by the agents of the Cornwall from Captain Barter, of the Cornwall, upon arrival at Albany:- " November 16.—Arrived 5 Wednesday afternoon, ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Rev. Father Matthews, the Roman Catholic chaplain who was taken prisoner with the 1st battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers at Nickolson's Nek, asserts that the ...
Article : 71 wordsAge, s. 2284 tons, Captain Doutan, from Adelaide. Wm. Howard Smith and Sons, Limited, agents ...
Article : 22 wordsOur Parr[?]matta correspondent writes:—Mr. Byron Baly, of Wyong (whose son is in the Lancers), complains in bitter terms at the word " coward " being applied to the returning Lancers. He says ...
Article : 231 wordsAge, s, from Adelaide: 4000 bags salt, 1400 bags [?]our [?] harvesters, 4000 firebricks, 316 bags bark, 55 flastones 40 bags barley. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 18 Nov 1899, Page 9
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