It is reported from Capetown that a case of bubonic plague has been discovered there. The patient was on board a ship from Rosario, in Egypt. ...
Article : 41 wordsThough English critics have found fault with the war budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in that it does not attempt to widen or equalise the basis of taxation, ...
Article : 80 wordsA reconnaissance by the Inniskilling Dragoons and the New South Wales Lancers fully disclosed the Boer position in front of Lord Roberts, now at Osfontein. The enemy ...
Article : 202 wordsThe presence of a number of Boer women known to have been in the enemy's position at Pieter's Hill is now explained. It is said that 400 women came to the front in ...
Article : 87 wordsLord Roberts, Commander in Chief in South Africa, has accepted the honorary colonelcy of the Lord Mayor's City of London Volunteers, composed of a battery of ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Philp, the Premier of Queensland, received a telegram from Mr. Lyne to-day with regard to the 2000 bushmen required by the Imperial authorities for ...
Article : 308 wordsThere were no fresh developments to-day regarding the plague. No further outbreak has been reported and there have been no suspicious cases of illness. All the people ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Viscountess Hampden, wife of the late Governor of New South Wales, has sent to South Africa for tho New South Wales Lancers and the Australian Horse ...
Article : 59 wordsThe effect upon the natives and especially the Basutos, of the British victories, is most satisfactory and has strengthened their confidence in the power of the British. The ...
Article : 114 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday a resolution approving the war loan of £35,000,000 proposed by the Chancellor of The Exchequer was carried by 161 votes to ...
Article : 72 wordsSeveral members of the Marine Board made an inspection yesterday of the fittings for the carriage of stock on board the Euryalus, some difference of opinion having ...
Article : 89 wordsOn the strength of a telegram which was received by Dr. Gresswell yesterday, Queensland is to be declared infected with the bubonic plague and the precautions ...
Article : 310 wordsMr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, yesterday announced in the House of Commons that he was glad to be able to state that the request he had sent ...
Article : 77 wordsOn Friday the Bushmen will leave their camp at Langwarrin shortly after noon, for Cheltenham, where they are expected to arrive at about 5 o'clock. On Saturday ...
Article : 550 wordsThe Austrian beet sugar refiners, who had some apprehension that a differential rate would be imposed on beet sugar in the new taxation proposed in the British war budget, ...
Article : 51 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buffer reports that Natal is now entirely cleared of the Boers, who have retreated across the frontiers of the Free State and the Transvaal. ...
Article : 34 wordsTo all appearances Lord Roberts will be attacking the Boers on his front very soon, if he has not already begun. The reconnaissance by the Inniskilling Dragoons, ...
Article : 759 wordsIt is considered probable in Parliamentary and official circles that Mr. Alfred Deakin, the Victorian and Mr. Barton, Q.C., the New South Wales, delegate to England in ...
Article : 73 wordsThe privations which the troops in Ladysmith suffered during the siege, the scarcity and badness of provisions and the pollution of the drinking water caused an extensive ...
Article : 53 wordsBeyond the fact that the Australian Imperial Contingent will be regarded entirely as an Imperial force the terms of service have not yet been definitely stated. The ...
Article : 599 wordsThe British departmental committee Charged with the investigation of the probable expense, which would be incurred by the adoption of the Old Age Pensions for ...
Article : 253 wordsA terrible explosion has taken place at the Red Ash colliery, in Lafayette County, West Virgina. One hundred miners were entombed through the accident, two only ...
Article : 43 wordsThe scarcity of provisions during the Ladysmith siege is endorsed by the fact that at an auction sale on 21st February a tin of milk sold for 10; eggs, 48 per dozen; a ...
Article : 72 wordsThe expected fighting at Fourteen Streams between the Boers and the British force pushing north to assist in the relief of Mafeking has not, it appears, yet taken place; but it cannot be long before the British attack on the Boers in position before Osfontein begins, in order to clear the road to Bloemfontein. The Boer lines are only ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 128 wordsThe Alves smoke consuming patent for factory chimneys, invented by Mr. J. Alves. late of Melbourne, which obtained considerable popularity in Sydney, has been ...
Article : 48 wordsThe body of Major Eddy, formerly second in command of the Victorian Contingent, has been recovered. A military funeral was accorded to the remains, the ...
Article : 41 wordsA large, number of the Boer prisoners captured at Koodoosrand and many Boers who are still in the field, are said to be eager to obtain copies of Lord Roberts's ...
Article : 108 wordsThe March series of London wool sales opened yesterday to a brisk market, but prices showed a decline of from 5 to 10 per cent, on the closing rates of the last series ...
Article : 139 wordsThe remainder of the second New Zealand Contingent, which has been encamped, near Capetown, is now leaving for the front. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 680 wordsThe Afrikander Bond, which had intended to hold a convention in Capetown with a view of influencing the supposed policy of the Imperial Government in regard to the ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Railway department has determined to offer special facilities for country residents desirous of witnessing the departure of the Bushmen's Corns on Saturday. At ...
Article : 98 wordsThe latest news of the movements of the Boers facing Lord Roberts at Osfontein indicates that they intend to offer a stubborn resistance. General Joubert has secured ...
Article : 52 wordsReceived by Dalgety and Company:-- London, 6th (March.--The second series of wool sales opened to-day, in the presence of large attendance of buyers. A good selection of wool ...
Article : 430 wordsThe Ameer Abdul Rahman of Afghanistan, who is England's subsidised ally, is not apparently afraid of a Russian attack on Herat, since he has offered substantial ...
Article : 74 wordsAt the meeting of the Harbor Trust yesterday reference was made to the fact that Lieutenant Strong, son of Commissioner Strong, was a member of the Bushmen's ...
Article : 247 wordsIn the fighting round Dordrecht; where Brigadier-General Brabant and Major Maxwell, R.E., defeated the enemy and drove him northwards towards the Free State ...
Article : 123 wordsDr. Leyds the Boer "envoy" to Europe, has issued a notice to the French and Belgium newspapers affirming that the Cape Assembly, in which the Afrikander Bond ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 110 wordsMR. HALE'S, WAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE "Daily. News," who was captured in the unfortunate reconnaissance near Rensburg in which Mr. W. J. Lambie, special ...
Article : 121 wordsThe newspapers of Berlin and[?] [?]of Paris, though still inimical in the tone they adopt in writing of the South African war, are manifestly impressed with the firm and ...
Article : 63 wordsThe 79th battery of the Royal Field Artillery, under the command of Major E. H. Armitage, then mercilessly pounded the Boers, driving them first from the lower ...
Article : 383 wordsAt the meeting of the Oakleigh borough council on Tuesday evening, a proposal to vote £10 10 to the Bushmen's Fund was defeated by 5 votes to 3, the mayor (Mr. Hugh ...
Article : 58 wordsThe total losses involved in the various attempts to relieve the garrison of Ladysmith have now been ascertained. Out of General Sir Redvers Buller's field force, ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Mayor of Melbourne has received from Lord Roberts, at Osfontein, the following cablegram, in acknowledgment of the congratulations cabled from the citizens of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 234 wordsThe report received by the Minister of Defence from Colonel Price, enumerating the defects found in some of the clothing and general equipment supplied to the ...
Article : 66 wordsAt present there is no indication that any difiiculty will be experienced in obtaining the horses for the contingent. Inspector Beekwith, who has been entrusted with the ...
Article : 100 wordsMajor James Traik, it is announced, has been appointed to a position on Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Carrington's staff. [The only officer of sufficient standing in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 108 wordsOn Tuesday last, seven bales, containing comforts for the troops in South Africa, were sent to Colonel Cairncross at the Victoria barracks by Lady Sargood and the ...
Article : 207 wordsThe military commandant was yesterday informed by the Defence department that the strength of the Bushmen's Corps would be reduced to 251, inclusive of the chaplain. ...
Article : 307 wordsLORD HINDLIP, Who is accompanying Lord Brassey, to whom he was aide-de-camp in Melbourne, on the yacht Sunbeam, has telegraphed an offer to the War Office of a ...
Article : 65 wordsA grand review was held at Ladysmith of General Sir Redvers Buller's field force. The place of honor was given to the Roya| Dublin Fusiliers, who have greatly ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Premier is in communication with the Premiers of the other colonies with a view, to having an agreement come to as to the equipment of the second contingent of ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 8 Mar 1900, Page 5
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