A meeting of the Central Board of Health was held on Wednesday, at which then were present the Hon. B. B. Moreton (in the chair). Dr. Thomson. Dr. Hardie. Dr. ...
Article : 401 wordsGeneral Buller's report discloses the fact that he had been instructed to keep the enemy occupied. He describes their retirement as being a hurried retreat, and states that they ...
Article : 121 wordsA message winch has been received from Matching states that the food supplies to the garrison and residents of the town includes horse sausages, curried locusts, roast mule, ...
Article : 34 wordsLieutenant-general French and Majorgeneral Hutton with their cavalry and mounted infantry, by a tactical movement, cleverly turned a position held by 3,000 Boers ...
Article : 78 wordsPrivate C. Cripps, who died of enterie fever, was a son of the late Dr. Charles Fisher Cripps, and a native of Rockhampton. He gave up his position as classical master at ...
Article : 81 wordsIt is reported that a council of war has been held by the Boers at Liudloy, at which it was decided to take measures to hold HArrismith, a town in the cast of the Orange ...
Article : 47 wordsIt is announced by the Minister for Education that should news of the relief of Mafeking arrive, all the schools under his depart meat may close for that day in celebration of ...
Article : 47 wordsReports are to hand that in the recent fighting at Welgelegen, to the north of Bloemfontein, the casualties included the following Australians; Sergeant-major ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Alexander M. Gordon on Wednesday [?]uperiatended the work of disinfecting and fumigating the residences which have recently been isolated. Accompanied by a ...
Article : 967 wordsA cable message announces the death from fever at Brandfort, of Private Brision, of the second Victorian contingent. ...
Article : 26 wordsIt is affirmed at Lisbon that President Kroger has ordered the Portuguese Consal in quit Pretoria. ...
Article : 22 wordsTo THE Eorron—Sir.—In your issue of 14th instant I notice that a correspondent complains of the number of curs which are allow ed the freedom of the city. It is Indeed ...
Article : 373 wordsThe Evening. News has received a cable message from their agent at Capetown, announcing the death from enterie fever of Mr. H. H. Spooner. their special correspondent ...
Article : 176 wordsNews is to hand that 3,500 British troops have now landed at Beira, in Portuguese East Africa, on their way to Rhodesia. The transport steamer Gymerie, with part ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is reported that 2,500 Boers entrained at Glencoe, near Dundoe, for the north, their guns and stores having preceded than to Daunbanser and De Jager's Drift. ...
Article : 53 wordsNews from New York states that Messrs. Fischer, Wolmaraus, and Wessels, the delegates from the South African republics, arrived, there yesterday, and were publicly ...
Article : 315 wordsThe was correspondent of the Standard reports that the British cavalry chased the enemy's rearguard from ridge to ridge for a distance of 17 miles. ...
Article : 30 wordsOn the occupation of Dundeo by General Bullers force, it,was found that almost every house in the town bad been looted by the Boers, and the machinery at the collieries in ...
Article : 38 wordsIt will be remembered that the women of Queensland subscribed sufficient funds to purchase two ambulance waggons with horses and equipment complete, and that these. ...
Article : 229 wordsGeneral Buller's force has occupied Glencoe, on the main railway Hue in Natal, a few miles cast of Dundee. (Glencoe was on October 20 the scene of the first British ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Transvaal Boers have evacuated Biggarsdorp, and the numbers of the Orange Free State troops holding tho Drakebsberg Range, on the eastern frontier of Natal, are ...
Article : 37 wordsHeavy fighting is reported to have taken place at Mafeking on Saturday last. The Boers claim that they seized the native quarters and brought their guns to bear at close ...
Article : 62 wordsAt the Snpreme Court on Wednesday, before his honour Mr. Justice Cooper, an application was made on behalf of John Willis, farmer of Veresdale, near Beandesert, an insolvent, ...
Article : 62 wordsColonel Baden-Powell wired from Mafeking to Lord Robertson May 7 stating that the fever, which had been prevalent in the town, was decreasing, and that the garrison ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 wordsFurther news from Natal slated that on Monday night the Boers, to the number of 4,000, fled from Dundee on the approach of General Builer's force, taking with them 18 ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Harry Furniss, who was one of the speakers at the Society of Arts recently, told an amusing story of Mr. Justice Hawkins. The learned judge bad a horror of draughts ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Standard's war correspondent describes the Boers who retreated from Kroonstad on the arrival of Lord Roberts's force as being a sullen and demoralised rabble. ...
Article : 73 wordsCommandant De net, who, with General Boths, has retired to the Transvaal, having declared that he would tight no more in the Orange Free State, has gone to Klerksdorp, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Standard's correspondent at Kroonstad reports that the British residents there assert that most of the foreign military attaches with the Boer forces, among whom the Russian ...
Article : 73 wordsLater reports of the white [?]ag ontrage at a farm near Krooas[?]ad show that there were 1G Boers concealed in the place, and that two privates were killed, one officer was wounded, ...
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The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Fri 18 May 1900, Page 4
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