Lord Roberts, after a halt of 10 days at Kroonstad to give the troops a rest after their long march from Bloemfontein, has continued his advance on the Vaal River, ...
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Article : 222 wordsThe ordinary fortnightly meeting was held on Monday evening. Present: The Mayor (Cr. Thomson) and Crs. Pinkerton, Flanagan, Allan, Sisely, Clements and ...
Article : 1,923 wordsThe enemy has not, as was reported, abandoned Natal, Laing's Nek having again been occupied by 5000 Boers, who are now engaged in throwing up ...
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Advertising : 496 wordsConsiderable resistance to Sir Leslie Rundle's advance may still be expected in the eastern district of the Orange Free State. A strong Boer commando, with ...
Article : 164 wordsMessrs. Shields and Smyth report holding their Wodonga fortnightly market on Tuesday, yarding 1600 sheep and 244 head of cattle, and succeeded in disposing ...
Article : 770 wordsSince the first foreigner, in the person of a Dutchman, landed on the Island of Sumatra, in 1449, the native Achinese have combated, the usurping of their land foot ...
Article : 673 wordsLord Roberts has continued his advance with such marvellous rapidity and admirable strategic combination as to overwhelm and completely demoralise the ...
Article : 293 wordsAs already reported, the Boers are in considerable strength north-west of Ficksburg, close to the Basutoland border. A British patrol, finding Ficksburg ...
Article : 46 wordsAt Boshof, 35 miles north-east of Kimberley, where severe fighting took place a month ago, 350 Free State burghers have surrendered to the British. They have ...
Article : 209 wordsAccording to reports from Pretoria, President Kruger has reluctantly abandoned his intention of destroying the Rand mines. ...
Article : 73 wordsSince Lord Roberts arrived at Honing Spruit, 21 miles north of Kroonstad, General French has succeeded in crossing the Rheinoster River with his cavalry to ...
Article : 104 wordsHer Majesty the Queen arrived yesterday at Balmoral, her residence in the Highlands. ...
Article : 27 wordsMessrs. Dalgety and Co. Limited, Melbourne, report as follows:-- Wool.--Since our last report the following cable from our London office has reached us, dated the ...
Article : 251 wordsReports continue to come in of the various incidents that attended the relief of Mafeking by Colonel Mahon, and of General Baden-Powell's final struggles ...
Article : 208 wordsThe Khedive of Egypt, who will visit England next month, will arrive in London on 21st June. He will stay ten days in England. ...
Article : 29 wordsIt has transpired that a cable message from the Premiers of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, leaving the settlement of the appeal question in the ...
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Advertising : 144 wordsMr. H. H. Black, the well-known village blacksmith at Grahamsville, Sullivan Co., N.Y., says:--"Our little son, five years old, has always been subject to ...
Article : 138 wordsArrivals of the new crop to date amount to 85,000 original half-chests. The crop is an average one, and about equal in quality of last year. The market is ...
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Advertising : 107 wordsAt the London wool sales yesterday there was a fair competition, prices being unchanged. The following are the average prices ...
Article : 51 wordsGreat success attended a joint attack on the Boer hoofdlaager (chief laager), near Mafeking, by General Baden-Powell and Colonel Mahon. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe price of consols yesterday was £101, being a fall of 10s. since Thursday last. The directors of the Bank of England ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 118 wordsAs already announced, the surmise was correct that some of Sir Frederick Carrington's colonial troops, who landed at Beira and journeyed through Rhodesia, ...
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