Yesterday's record of cases of bubonic plague was the largest since the outbreak, there being seven patients found. John Horan, a lad 15½years of ago, was the first. His residence was in Redfern, ...
Article : 1,008 wordsCommandant Olivier, with 15 guns, is reported to be north of Ladybrand. Other reports say that he is being hotly pursued by General Gatacre. ...
Article : 6,964 wordsSir Alfred Milner (High Commissioner for South Africa) visited Molteno and Dordrecht on his return from his conference at Bloemfontein with Lord ...
Article : 60 wordsCommandant Olivier, with 15 guns, is reported to be north of Ladybrand. Other reports say that he has had large desertions from his ranks, and that his burghers ...
Article : 99 wordsThe only people who have any light to complain of the project for sending an Imperial Bushmen's Contingent to South Africa are those who cannot secure the privilege of being included in it. The ...
Article : 435 wordsMajor-General Clements has read to the burghers at Philippolis a proclamation drawn up by Lord Roberts. The proclamation stated that those swearing to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 917 wordsMany of the natives at Mafeking are refusing to eat horseflesh and are in consequence starving. ...
Article : 23 wordsWhen Lieutenant-General Sir W. F. Gatacre was advancing on Bethulie, on the Orange River, from Burghersdorp, the Boers destroyed the railway bridge ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is reported that there is a danger of the disloyalists in Natal escaping punishment. The loyalists of Natal are in ...
Article : 32 wordsMajor-General Clements has arrested a number of rebels from the Colesberg district. ...
Article : 18 wordsA circular despatch has been received from Mr. Lyne and has been considered by the Ministry. The contents have not been published and there are various speculations regarding the personal of the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe rebels are strongly entrenched between Kenhardt and Vanwyksvlei, in the Carnarvon district of Cape Colony. March 26. ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, has given credit to Major Lord Edward Cecil for his foresight, acting on his own responsibility, in insisting on ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Duke of Norfolk is going to the front as an officer of the Sussex Yeomanry. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe delay in the appointment of officers of the Australian Imperial Regiment has been the subject of considerable comment. The Government propose to fill the various appointments in the South ...
Article : 88 wordsLieutenant A. Fitzpatrick, of the New South Wales Artillery, who has served with General Sir Redvers Buller's forces from the battle of Colenso, has been ...
Article : 39 wordsFour hundred Transvaal Boers have reoccupied Griquatown, in Griqualand West, 95 miles west of Kimberley, and they are imprisoning the loyalists. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe question of the number of men to represent Queensland in the Imperial Contingent is still undetermined. The Premier is anxious that Queensland should send more men than the number allowed on ...
Article : 80 wordsColonel Baden-Powell reported that Mafeking was " all well " on March 13, and that the cordon of the besiegers had been much relaxed. ...
Article : 41 wordsA great fire has occurred in Gravestreet, Capetown. The Government offices narrowly escaped being burned. The archives were damaged. ...
Article : 27 wordsCorrespondence has been published showing that Mr. W. P. Schreiner (Premier of Cape Colony) declined to grant requests made by the Mayor of ...
Article : 41 wordsIt is possible there is not a smater officer, so far as local police and mounted infantry are concerned, in South Africa than " Fred. Carrington," as the Mujor-General is familiarly known in the ...
Article : 509 wordsIt is reported that a portion of Lord Methuen's cavalry is 18 miles north of Christiana, a town on the Vaal River, 20 miles north-east of Warrenton. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Premier telegraphed to the Premier of New South Wales to-night suggesting that he should communicate with the War Office and point out that the four transports on the way to Australia, will not ...
Article : 249 wordsThe death is announced of FieldMarshal Sir Donald Stewart, Bart., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., aged 76 years. ...
Article : 23 wordsParticulars have been received of the manner in which Lieutenant-Colonel Crabbe's party, consisting of himself, Lieutenant-Colonel Codrington, of the ...
Article : 241 wordsThere is great concentration of the Boers and enormous supplies at Kroonstad. ...
Article : 20 wordsIncluded in the passengers for Melbourne by the steamer Australien is his Excellency Nicolas De Paesek, who will assume the post of ConsulImperial for Russia in Australia. He has come ...
Article : 167 wordsThe proposal to establish a Catholic University in Ireland was negatived in the House of Commons by 177 votes to 91. Mr. A. J. Balfour said he sympathised ...
Article : 57 wordsReuter's correspondent states that the resistance by the Boers at Kroonstad, in the Free State, is intended to cover their ultimate withdrawal to the Transvaal. ...
Article : 41 wordsA committee was recently appointed to see that the work of cleansing the infected aren was properly carried out. The Mayor nominated Mr. Blackwell, C.E., and the Premier appointed Dr. Ashborton ...
Article : 764 wordsThe Boer leaders are circulating a story among the burghers that the Russians have captured and have occupied London. The leaders have also informed their ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. Remnant, a barrister, has been returned unopposed, in succession to Sir Chas. Hall, Conservative, for the representation of Holborn, in the House of ...
Article : 36 wordsThe s.s. Monowai, with the members of the fourth contingent from New Zealand, left Dunedin yesterday for South Africa. The troops received an enthusiastic send-off. Among those who took part in ...
Article : 90 wordsAmong the passengers aboard the Omrah, which arrived to-day, are Dr. J. Donovan, Q.C., of Sydney, who has returned to Australia after three years' absence, and Canon Pain, of Sydney. ...
Article : 164 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3 9-16d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 16 wordsSkirmishes between outposts have taken place beyond Elandslaagte, Natal. Fresh troops are being pushed forward to the front. ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is indeed true that one touch of nature makes the whole world kin, and it was parhaps not for a moment doubted but that the fund being raised in the United Kingdom would be used for other than ...
Article : 425 wordsAn officer on board the Maplemore writes:— "Since leaving Adelaide the wet canteen has been opened. On Imperial transports there is no liquor allowed. Our canteen is managed with great ...
Article : 42 wordsWhile an excursion train was returing to Invercargill from Dunedin, after the departure of the fourth contingent, the engine was derailed on approaching the station in consequence of the ...
Article : 97 wordsThe last shipment of comforts for wounded soldiers in Africa through Mrs. Waller, of Parramatta, included a parcel from the ladies of the Globe, supplementing a former one which was forwarded on ...
Article : 67 wordsTwelve thousand British troops landed at Capetown during the past week, and 4000 sailed from England yesterday. The Eighth Division will land at East ...
Article : 34 wordsA largely-attended concert was held in the Petersham Town Hall last evening, when an attractive programme found cordial acceptance. Amongst these present were —Lieutenant-Colonel Neild, ...
Article : 377 wordsAmong the passengers by the French mail steamer Australien, which arrived on Monday morning, was Mrs. Castles, mother of Miss Amy Castles, the distinguished Bendigo vocalist. ...
Article : 177 wordsLord Roberts reports from Bloemfontein that the country is settling peaceably, and that the people recognise the advantage of the Government and are selling ...
Article : 39 wordsPrivate C. W. H. Coulter, of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps, writing from the troopship Moravian on February 14, says:—" So far we have only lost three horses; however we had a very anxious ...
Article : 433 wordsGunner Howe, of A Battery, New South Wales, and Troopers Harding (? Arding) and E. Smith, of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles, are seriously ill at ...
Article : 35 wordsA man named David Anderson was drowned on Saturday. A party of nine men, including Anderson, started from Fremantle in a sailing boat on a fishing excursion, and when near ...
Article : 193 wordsLord Kitchener has arrived at Bloemfontein from Western Cape Colony. ...
Article : 20 wordsWhen Ladysmith and Kimberley were relieved and the British were in possession of the Free State further north than Kimberley and Bloemfontein, it seemed that even the Transvaal Boers ...
Article : 860 wordsLieutenant-General Sir F. W. ForestierWalker, the general commanding the lines of communication, has arrived at Norval's Pont. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsYesterday Messrs. C. H. Walther and Co., of Hunter-street, had on view at their establishment a number of saddles, bridles, and breastplates just completed for the Imperial Bushmen's Contingent. The ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Tasmanians and the Rimington Guides, who are with Major-General Clements on his march from Norval's Pont to Bloomfontoin, have entered Philippolis. ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Perry (the Minister for Education) stated yesterday to a " Herald " reporter that various suggestions had been made to him respecting the advisability of closing the Public schools during the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 27 Mar 1900, Page 5
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