The Australian federal delegates, Mr. Edmund Barton (New South Wales), Mr. Alfred Deakin (Victoria), Mr. C. C. Kingston (South Australia), Mr. J. R. ...
Article : 331 wordsThe divisions under the command of Lieutenant-Goueral Tucker, LieutonantGeneral Pole-Carew, and LieutenantGeneral Hutton have surprised and ...
Article : 73 wordsGenerals Tuocker, Pola-Carew, and Hutton have surprised and captured Brandfort. The Boers hastily retreated. General Hamilton, who dispered the Boers at ...
Article : 6,527 wordsColonel Broadwood has reached Habelfontein, 10 miles north of Houtnek. The Boers have evacuated Thaba'nchu Hills, and are trekking northwards. ...
Article : 110 wordsMiss Olga Nethersole, the well-known actress, is suing a Presbyterian minister for an alleged libel in his pulpit in connection with the " anti-Sapho crusade." ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 wordsWriting from Poplar Grove, under date of March 9. Private R. Grace says:—"I have passed through my baptism of fire. I was out scouting in advance of the force and riding leisurely along, but still ...
Article : 362 wordsThe bubonic plague has made its appearance at Port Said. British troops stationed there are stringently guarding the steamers carrying pilgrims. ...
Article : 29 wordsGreat Britain has responded to the request made by the Natal Government for financial support. ...
Article : 23 wordsIt has beon found that the commandeering of rebels' horses has proved an effective deterrent to rebellion. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe collections by personal requisition to be made to-day in Sydney and suburbs for the Hospital Saturday fund will commence at all points at 8. a.m. The head office of the Bank of New South Wales ...
Article : 1,413 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 6 5-8d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 16 wordsTho extreme cold on the Biggarsberg Mountains is foreing the Boers to take to the foot passes. ...
Article : 24 wordsSir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner for Cape Colony, has written to the Mayor of Kimberley that everything has been done to secure the raising of the siege of ...
Article : 47 wordsLieutenant-General Ian Hamilton, with the colonial, division, has dispersed the Boers from Houtnek;10 miles north of Thaba'nchu. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe action of the Lake View Consols authorities in restricting the mine output to 8000z. for the present, us advised to shaneholders by circular issued in Loudon yesterday, has ...
Article : 555 wordsPreparatory to to-night's debate in the House of Commons upon tho Tugela campaign under General Sir Redvers Buller, the Government has published the ...
Article : 280 wordsThe news from the front to-day does not throw much additional light upon the military situation.Yesterday it was reported that an important movement was being made by ...
Article : 1,320 wordsTrooper James Clark, of the Berry Lancers, writes from Bloemfontein under date March 24, and says:— "We arrived hore on the 13th. We had not much opposition on the march, only on the 10th, when we ...
Article : 194 wordsThe official British report of the fighting at Houtnek shows that the killed and wounded included a German officer named Gunther, belonging to the 55th Regiment, ...
Article : 65 wordsThe enthusiasm manifested m connection with the war and with the desire to eater the ranks of the local military forces ia so inteuse andsustained that the authorities are faced with a difttcutt problem to meet ...
Article : 120 wordsMr. Leake, feador of the Federal League, and Mr, Illingworth, leader of the Opposition, [?]terviowed regarding Sir. John Forrest'r federation policy, expressed themselvas highly ...
Article : 71 wordsConstable Barnes, of Wentworth, has received a letter from his brother, a member of the South African police, who is a prisoner at Pretoria, having surrendered with others at Kuruman after ...
Article : 162 wordsAt a banquet given to-night in honour of Mr. G. 0 Willcocks, the premier remarked that whilst beheaving federattion will be a splendid thing for Queensland, he hoped that the right of appeal to ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. A. Fischer, the spokesman of the peace delegation, has issued a manifesto in whick he declares that the delegates are about to visit America to urge the ...
Article : 82 wordsHis Excellency Lord Lamington has announced his intention of reviewing the troops in camp at Lytton. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Mayor of Tasmania us treasurer of the Tasmauian Contingent Fund has agreed to sign a cheque for£ as temporary assistance to Mrs. Gilbam, of Stawell, Victoria,widow of Private Gilham, of the ...
Article : 52 wordsA deputation, consisting of Messrs C.A.Lee, M.L.A., tenterlied; W. Reid, Mayor of Tenterfield; T. P. Ewing, M.L.A., Lismore; and R. D. Meaghsr, M.L.A., the Tweed, waited upon the ...
Article : 215 wordsThe following are extracts from a letter received by Mr. B. M. Maxwell from his son, Private W. M. Maxwell, who left with the Second Contingent:— "Bloemfontein, March 23. I have been under fire. ...
Article : 591 wordsA private cable received by his parents announces that James Herbert Parker, of Oamaru, who left with the second contingent, has been killed in action. He had obtained a transfer to Kitchener's Horse, in ...
Article : 62 wordsTwelve Boor prisoners escaped from Simonstown in a boat. They were rescued by a French steamer and landed at Delagoa Bay. ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is feared that the deaths caused by the blasting accident at Schofield, in the State of Utah, number 400. The blasting of the rock ignitod a ...
Article : 41 wordsColonel Broadwood has advanced 28 miles north into tho Thaba'nchu district, with the result that the Boers have fled east and north. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe fete to be given by the combined Public schools at the Sydney Cricket Ground on May 23 promises to be a unique and stirring demonstration of youthful patriotism. During the week six ...
Article : 85 wordsIt is reported that a party of Queensland legislators will, prior to the federal elections, visit Orange, Bathurst, and Blayney districts to investigate their claims to selection as the site of the federal city. ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Bramsdon, a Liberal, has been elected to represent Portsmouth in the House of Commons in succession to Mr. W. 0. Clough, who was also a Liberal. ...
Article : 32 wordsCommandent De Wet on Tuesday surrounded Captain E. B. Towso and 15 Gordon Highlanders and demanded their surrender. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe alterations in the proposals of the Eastern Extension Company in regard to the laying of a cable from Cape Colony to Glenelg, as suggested by Messrs. Crick and Watt, have been submitted ...
Article : 205 wordsMr. W. Begbie, who was arrested on suspicion of causing the explosion at Bogbie and Son's foundry, Johannesburg, by which a number of employees engaged ...
Article : 61 wordsTrooper Artlett has written his first letter to his relations since the capture of the Lancer patrol. It will be remembered that Trooper Artlett had the good fortune to escape on that occasion. He says:— ...
Article : 579 wordsThe United States, Congress, by a large majority, has passed the Nicaragua Canal Bill. It provides for the protection of the canal by the United States, but not ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, will receive the Australian Federation Delegates on Tuesday, and will then annnounce the decision ...
Article : 44 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts's decision tu burn the farms of those persons who have broken their oath ot allegiance has impressed the burghers with the necessity ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Trust Agency of Australasia, after taking £2000 from the dividend resseve fund, shows a profit of £71,491. A dividend of 10 per cent has been declared ...
Article : 288 wordsPrivate Coneybeer, of Orange, a member of the Second Contingent, writing home, says that sleep daring the march to Bloemfontein could only be obtained when they waited for the waggons to come ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 184 wordsCorrespondence captured by the British forces shows that friction existed between ex-President Steyn, of the Orauge Free State, and General Botha. The former ...
Article : 62 wordsThe fund opened by the Lord Mayor of London (Sir A. J. Newton) in aid of the sufferers by the great fire at Ottawa has reached £30,000. ...
Article : 34 wordsLance-Corporal M. F. Collins, of C Company of New South Wales Mounted Infantry, which is under the command of Colonel Knight, has written to his friends from Bloemfontein, describing the ...
Article : 132 wordsThe death is anuounced of the Rev. W. Peter Pearco, late of Melbourne. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe results of the Hospital Saturday fund Collection in the Eastern suburbs district should prove satisfactory. Notwithstanding that many other matters have of late taken the attention of the ...
Article : 131 wordsGerman recruits, who have been enlisting in the army of the Transvaal on the strength of promises of £1 per day ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 61 wordsDriver Gazzard, of A Battery, N.S.W. Artillery, writing to his father in Paramatta, under date Karne Kloof, March 9, says:—"We are here on an expedition after rebels. They are the Boers who ...
Article : 94 wordsA compromise arranged between the Agrarian and Clerical partios in the German Reichstag resulted in the naval programme submitted by the Emperor ...
Article : 41 wordsCorporel S. E. Martin, writing from Norval's Pout under date of March 13, states:—"We have gone through hard and trying times, sad on account of losing so many of our brave comrades, and trying ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 5 May 1900, Page 9
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