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  2. SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. CAPE INVASION CHECKED.

    It is officially announced that the Boer invasion of the Cape Colony has been chocked. Little assistance was rendered to the invaders by the Dutch farmers. In fact, some of the ...

    Article : 112 words
  3. The Commonwealth. FORMING THE FIRST MINISTRY.

    The political situation took an important and patisfactory change on Monday night, when Sir William Lyne gave up the attempt to form a Ministry, and Mr. Barton was ...

    Article : 159 words
  4. LI HUNG CHANG'S ESPIONAGE,

    The foreign Ministers at Peking have had a stormy interview with Li Hung Chang. They indignantly charge the Chinese plenipotentiary with having systematically ...

    Article : 59 words
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  6. LORD KITCHENER AT DE AAR.

    Lord Kitchener, the commander-in-chief of the British forces in South Africa, is now at De Aar, at the junction of the railways from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth, directing ...

    Article : 52 words
  7. THE PROBABLE CABINET.

    Mr. Barton spent his Christmas Day with his family at his home, at North Sydney, which looks out over the waters of the harbour. ...

    Article : 553 words
  8. DESTROYING THE RAILWAYS

    The Boer commandos have destroyed the railway liu e at three separate points north of De Aar and between that place and the Orange River. ...

    Article : 28 words
  9. MEASURES OF PRECAUTION.

    In view of the raid by the Boers upon Cape Colony, the British authorities have removed to the south the records of the tribunal which sat at Colesberg to inquire into ...

    Article : 105 words
  10. GENERAL FRENCH'S SUCCESS.

    General French, who on Wednesday last expelled 2,500 Boers from the positions they had taken up at Thorndale, north-west of Krugersdorp, killing 50 of them and ...

    Article : 44 words
  11. DE LA REY AND BEYERS.

    The Boer force under General Do La Rey and Commandant Beyers, who achieved such a success over General Clements's troops at a Nooitgedach's farm, north-west of ...

    Article : 61 words
  12. THE NOOITGEDACHT REVERSE.

    The losses sustained by General Clements's force, at Nooitgedacht farm, on the 13st inst., were 56 killed and 153 wounded. The bulk of the prisoners taken by the Boers ...

    Article : 44 words
  13. THE MAGALIESBERG CLEAR.

    The Magaliesberg Range, east of Pretoria, in which the disaster to General Clements's force occurred, has now been cleared of the Boers. ...

    Article : 23 words
  14. GENERAL DE WET NEAR SENEKAL

    General De Wet, who, after his daring escape through the British lines, near Thaba 'Nchau, was reported to be near Ficksburg, on the Basutoland border, is now in the ...

    Article : 44 words
  15. THE EASTERN TRANSVAAL.

    Some ten days ago General Louis Botha, the Boer commander-in-chief, with a force of 1,500 men, was reported to be near Standerton, where a railway raid had been made ...

    Article : 88 words
  16. WAR IN CHINA. THE JOINT NOTE.

    The joint note agreed to by the powers stating the terms on which they will make peace with China has been presented to Prince Ching, one of the Chinese ...

    Article : 196 words
  17. REINFORCEMENTS.

    The 1st (King's) Dragoon Guards, Colonel (Lieut.-General) J. R. S. Sayer, C.B., at present stationed at Aldershot, has been ordered to South Africa. The regiment will ...

    Article : 38 words
  18. HORSES AND MULES.

    In consequence of the representations made by the military authorities in South Africa with regard to the necessity for more horses, the War Office has purchased 50,000 ...

    Article : 35 words
  19. BODY OF SCOTTISH HORSE.

    The Rand Scotsmen have formed a body of Scottish Horse, this step being an outcome of the suggestion by the Imperial authorities that the Johannesburg residents ...

    Article : 65 words
  20. FOREIGN PRESS OPINIONS.

    The American newspapers, commenting on the joint note to China, write in a tone of bitter disappointment. They are completely disillusioned by the action of President ...

    Article : 224 words
  21. UTTERANCES BY MR. STEAD.

    An extraordinary utterance respecting the war has been made by Mr. W. T. Stead, the pro.Boer editor of the "Review of Reviews." Mr. Stead declared that it was impossible ...

    Article : 62 words
  22. THE AUSTRALASIAN TROOPS.

    The London newspapers express particular gratification at the ofter of further Australasian contingents to assist in extinguishing the embers of war in South Africa. They refer ...

    Article : 46 words
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  24. CHINA ABLE TO ACCEPT.

    Dr. Morrison states that Chinese officials have declared that China can accept all the conditions contained in the joint note without "losing face." ...

    Article : 36 words
  25. THE FOREIGN CONCERT.

    The allied, powers have agreed that if any one of their number withdrawn its troops from China for whatsoever reason, the concert of the powers shall not be thereby ...

    Article : 37 words
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