Mr. L[?] received through the Eastern Extension Company the following cable from the Agent-General:—"Everywhere among all classes there are ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Premier had a consultation to-day with Mr. Cox, representing Messrs. Birt and Co., shipping agent, and a number of details with regard to the ...
Article : 62 wordsThree members of the Cape House of Assembly are implicated in the charge of sedition. ...
Article : 21 wordsGeneral Cronje, commander of the Boer force at Magersfontein, has notified that he declines communication with. General Methuen until the end of the ...
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Advertising : 161 wordsThe London "Times" states that the Modder River difficulty was over-estimated. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Boers assort that Lieutenant Churchill, the special correspondent of the "Morning Post," who eluded their vigilance whilst a prisoner in their hands, ...
Article : 34 wordsIn issuing instructions that good, smart-looking men with hush experience, but who failed at the present musketry tests, should be held in reserve at ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Premier to-day received an offer of 10 Camels from the Bourke Carrying Co., for use in conjunction with the Australian Contingent. The Premier ...
Article : 69 wordsIn consequences of the effect of Australian and Canadian loyalty, the colon[?]nial detachments are extremely popular. The N.S.W. Lancers have already ...
Article : 72 wordsThe report of General Schalk Burger, the Boer commander in Natal, of the the battle Tuge[?]s has been published in Pretoria. It states that the Boer ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Premier of West Australia telegraphed to Mr. Lyne this morning to the effect that the West Australian Government had decided to increase their ...
Article : 123 wordsMr. Edward Jones of Cadow Station, has offered Police Sub-Inspector Webb three of the best horses on the station for the contingent going to South Africa. ...
Article : 32 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers H. Buller, who has moved the main body of his command a short distance southward towards Chieveley, reports that the British ...
Article : 108 wordsOnce upon a time newspapers were not free; they had to submit to all sorts of vexations restrictions on their right of comment, and even of news ...
Article : 1,247 wordsMrs. Hall of the Park Hotel last night forwarded to Mr. J. Russel French, the Treasurer of the New South Wales Patriotic Fund a first instalment of ...
Article : 62 wordsAn average of 60 empty cartridges was found beside each British soldier killed at Tugels. Their comrades wept with rage to see ...
Article : 58 wordsTwenty thousand men bare volunteered to serve with the yeomanry regiment now being formed by Lord Chesham. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe "A" Field Battery will under the command of Colonel Smith, leave on Saturday by the Warrigal and will take fall supplies of ammunition. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 110 wordsAdvices from South Africa state that 1000 Cape Dutch are proceeding to Tugela River to reinforce the Boers there. ...
Article : 34 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller hs destroyed the Tugela-road bridge so as to prevent the Boers to the south retreating. He has withdrawn the British ...
Article : 61 wordsDefinite information is to hand that considerable friction exists in the Boer camp before Modder River, where the Orange Free State contingent complain ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Premier to-day received a cablegram from the War Office, in which the authorities said that the "A" Field Battery should be complete in every ...
Article : 166 wordsGeneral Buller had a narrow escape on the 15th inst. A bullet grazed his ribs and another bullet grazed General Sir C. Clery's arm. ...
Article : 35 wordsA resident of Capetown warned the Government of Cape Colony in 1894 that he had seen at Pretoria written plan of an anti-British campaign. He also ...
Article : 56 wordsAnother great success was scored by the P[?]mmer-Carey company in their production of "N[?]s" at the School of Arts Hall last night. There was another ...
Article : 313 wordsGeneral Joubert has gone to command operations at the front. ...
Article : 25 wordsWomen and boys are assisting Colonel Baden-Powell's garrison in the defence of Matching, and are working in a spirited manner. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe British newspapers complain bitterly that the gans of the field artillery now in use in South Africa are antiquated as compared with those of the ...
Article : 43 wordsPresident Kruger is suspicions of the presence of spies. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe Imperial Government has decided that it is undesirable to draw further reinforcements from India except in the case of unforeseen emergencies. ...
Article : 31 wordsThere are now 60 horses in camp and 180 more are expected, some of which will arrive tonight. The storing and issuing of forage is being conducted ...
Article : 206 wordsPROVISIONS FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD. Sir Redvers Buller has received [?] heliograph message from Ladysmith that the town can hold out for an indefinite period. ...
Article : 37 wordsAmong the hostile Continental press no section has been more bitter in its inti-British criticisms than that of Austria. This fact has occasioned ...
Article : 104 wordsThe hospital ship Maine, fitted out by American ladies has Bailed for Capetown. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe services of the squadron of Canadian rough riders have been accepted by the British Government. Another similar squadron has been ...
Article : 42 wordsIt was recently reported that Signor Marconi's wireless telegraphy instruments had been seized by the Customs authorities at Capetown. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsMr. Wragge has issued the following forecast for New South Wales: Occasional thunder-showers with great heat, especially in the central and Darling districts with ...
Article : 150 wordsThe sum of £20,000 has been subscribed in Northumberland to assist the yeomanry volunteering for South Africa. Yorkshire is raising £50,000 for the ...
Article : 31 wordsNews has been received that the men of the New Zealand contingent, commanded by Major A. W. Robin, who are attached to Major-General J. D. P. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe members of the Africkander Bund at Capetown report that 8000 European officers and men skilled in war tactics and artillery man œuvres are being held ...
Article : 43 wordsGeneral Gourko, the well - known Russian commander, has left Russia for Dalagoa Bay, accompanied by two Dutch officers. ...
Article : 36 wordsUp to the present the following names of those finally selected for service in the Transvaal have reached Capt. Mach[?]ttie: Messrs. Ferris, Connors, Twiss, Hazel, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 wordsLieutenant-General Sir W. F. Gats[?]re, whose headquarters are now at Sterkstroom, in northern Cape Colony, has taken stringent steps to prevent ...
Article : 77 wordsMajor Thompson visited Bathurst yesterday in order to purchase horses for army remounts and met a number of horse-owners at the sale yards. He ...
Article : 66 wordsThe British casualties on December 22 were nine killed and 15 wounded. ...
Article : 16 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 61 wordsDisappearing guns [?]ss Lord Methuem's right flank. ...
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National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW : 1889 - 1954), Thu 28 Dec 1899, Page 2
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