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  2. TRANSVAAL WAR. RAILWAY LINE BLOWN UP.

    Reuter's Agency reports that the British columns under Colonels Do Lisle and Fanihave had an engagement with a large Boer force under Commandant Do Wet at Trommel ...

    Article : 87 words
  3. Sentences Commuted.

    Sentence of death has been passed on a farmer at Murraysburg, in Caps Colony, for having joined tho enemy, but the sentence has been commuted to penal servitude for life. ...

    Article : 55 words
  4. Australasian Casualties.

    The following Australasian casualties are announced:—Private William Rohson Davis, of the Seventh New Zealand Contingent, died from ...

    Article : 59 words
  5. Intercepted Message.

    A message sect by Commandant Piet Viljoen to Mr. Schalk Burger, the nominal acting president of the Transvaal, has been intercepted. In this message Mr. ...

    Article : 73 words
  6. Protest Against Calumnies.

    The Afrikander residents at Graaf Reinet have held a meeting, at which the Hon. Gysbert Henry Maasdorp, member of the Cape Legislative Council for the Midland ...

    Article : 76 words
  7. De Wet Cuts Entanglements.

    The correspondent of the "Standard" reports that Commandant Do Wet, with a force of 400 men, succeeded in catting the wire entanglements between the blockhouses, ...

    Article : 72 words
  8. Concentration Camps.

    The report of the commission of ladies, appointed by the Government last year to visit and investigate the management of the concentration camps in South Africa, ...

    Article : 112 words
  9. Another Great Move.

    The strict censorship which now is being adopted in South Africa is interpreted to mean that Lord Kitchener is organising another great move against the Boers. ...

    Article : 31 words
  10. Indemnity Act Asked For.

    The loyalist members of the Parliament of Cape Colony are asking for the passing of an Imperial Indemnity Act and other measures which are necessary for the peace of the ...

    Article : 36 words
  11. Transvaalers and Free Staters.

    Speaking generally, reports from South Africa show that the Transvaal Boers are disposed to surrender to the British; but the Orange Free State Boers are more ...

    Article : 206 words
  12. Camps Removed.

    The inmates of the concentration camps at Pietersborg and Heilbron, in the Orange River Colony, have been sent to the coast camp, near Durban, the chief port of Naial. ...

    Article : 103 words
  13. Boers North of the Line.

    The Boers, it is stated, hare practically an undisputed possession of the whole of the Transvaal which lies to the north of the Delagoa Bay railway line, ...

    Article : 93 words
  14. Queenslander Dies.

    Quartermaster-sergeant Jerome T. Gorman, of the Sixth Queensland Bushmen's Contingent, has died at Green Point from meningitis. ...

    Article : 23 words
  15. Boer Laagers Surprised.

    Lieutenant-general Lord Methuen's force, which is operating in the western Transvaal, has surprised two small laagers and captured 40 Boers. ...

    Article : 23 words
  16. Volunteer Officer Killed.

    Colonel Evans, of the Volunteer Composite Regiment, has been killed in a smart engagement with the Boers at Vryheid, near the Zululand frontier. ...

    Article : 27 words
  17. Railway Blown Up.

    News has been received that the Boers laid a mine under the Delagoa Bay railway line, between Machadodorp and Dalmanutha, about 150 miles cast of Pretoria, with the ...

    Article : 88 words
  18. Butter's Splonkop Despatch.

    The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, in reply to a pro-Boer correspondent, states that General Buller was not asked to re-write his account of the Spionhop ...

    Article : 105 words
  19. Botha and Britz.

    Commandants Chris. (?) Botha and Britz, with a fores of 800 Boers, hare been located to the south of Braauwkop. ...

    Article : 23 words
  20. Australasian Casualties.

    The following Australasian casualties are announced:—Private George Clarke, of the Fifth Queensland Bushmen's Contingent. ...

    Article : 45 words
  21. Unreported Casualties.

    Several letters concerning the temporary disaster at Ameerspoort, South Africa, on January 4 have been received, and from these we are permitted to quote:— ...

    Article : 2,132 words
  22. Tweefontein Engagement.

    With reference to the engagement at Tweefontein, where Colonel Firman's camp was rushed by the Boers early on Christmas morning, despatches received by the War Office ...

    Article : 49 words
  23. Captures at Nooitgedacht.

    Details of the capture of 164 Boers at Nooitgedacht show that the British columns under Colonels Park, Williams, and Urmstrom, surprised three of ...

    Article : 74 words
  24. Commandant Executed.

    Commandant Geldenhuls has been executed at Middleburg, in Cape Colony. ...

    Article : 12 words
  25. Hans Grobelaar Defeated.

    News has been received that Commandant Hans Grobelaar, with 150 Boers, having repeatedly made, unsuccessful attempts to traverse Colonel Garrett's lines, has fled to ...

    Article : 36 words
  26. Australasian Casualties.

    The following Australasian casualties are announced:—Private Thomas Green, of the fifth contingent, Victorian Mounted Infintry, died ...

    Article : 84 words
  27. Fight at Klidden.

    Colonel Gilbert Hamilton reports that his column marched from Nigel on the 18th instant and engaged the Boers at Klidden. The enemy, however, could not be dislodged from ...

    Article : 82 words
  28. Senekal Reoccupied.

    The troops under Major-general Knox and Colonel Barker have reoccupied Senekal, in the Orange River Colony. ...

    Article : 19 words
  29. Death of Boer Commandant.

    Ina skirmish between a British column and a Boer force to the westward of Beaufort West, in the south-west of Cape Colony, on the 19th instant, a notorious rebel named ...

    Article : 47 words
  30. Carolina Boers Captured.

    A report to the War Office shows that 15 Boers have been captured near Carolina, in the Eastern Transvsl. LONDON, February 22. ...

    Article : 91 words
  31. Protest Against Calumnies.

    The German pastor and the German residents at Paul (?) have united in a protest against the calumnies which have been circulated about the British troops in South ...

    Article : 34 words
  32. Refutation of Slanders.

    A crowded and enthusiastic meeting was held at Durban, in Natal, yesterday, when resolutions were passed repudiating the slanders on the British army with regard to the ...

    Article : 77 words
  33. Cape Rebel Sentenced.

    A Cape Colony rebel named Vanndermye, son of a member of the Afrikander Bond, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment for joining the Boers. ...

    Article : 28 words
  34. How Cronje was Captured.

    Major Trollope, of the military Ballooning Department, has made an interesting revelation concerning the capture of General Cronje and his force by Lord Roberts at Paardeberg, ...

    Article : 95 words
  35. British Officer Killed.

    Details concerning the death of Colonel Evans, of the Volunteer Composite Regiment, who was killed at Vrybeid, near the Zululand frontier, show that 100 men of the ...

    Article : 72 words
  36. Remount Officer Resigns.

    At the suggestion of Lord Roberts, Commander-in-chief, General Truman, the head of the Remount Department of the War Office, has provisionally resigned, pending the ...

    Article : 47 words
  37. Chris. Botha's Sentence.

    Chris. Botha, who was captured at Volksrust, on the northern frontier of Natal, on November 4, has been tried as a rebel, and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, with a ...

    Article : 49 words
  38. Alleged Capture of Botha.

    A British officer, in a letter just received in England, states that several of the Boers who were taken prisoners at Knapsdaar when Commandant-general Louis Bothe's laager ...

    Article : 73 words
  39. Latest Queensland Capture.

    The Qaeenslanders under Colonel Plumer, on the 19th instant, captured 12 Boers at Wakkerstroom, in the south-east of the Transvaal. ...

    Article : 23 words
  40. Exiled Prisoners of War.

    The Boers who have been sentenced to penal servitude outside Africa are to be sent to the Seychelles Islands, in the Indian Ocean, about 935 miles north of Mauritius. ...

    Article : 33 words
  41. Kruitzlnger's Friends.

    At a small meeting of the Peace and Arbitration Association in England, Messrs. Cbanning, T. Shaw, and H. Wilson, members of the House of Commons, were authorised ...

    Article : 87 words
  42. Gaol for War Prisoners.

    A special gaol for the accommodation of 1,200 ordinary prisoners of war is being constructed at Antigua, Leeward Islands, and will be ready for occupation about the middle ...

    Article : 36 words
  43. Officers Resume Duty.

    The following officers, who were invalided, are convalescent, and have resumed duty:—Captain H. Caves, of the third New South Wales bushmen's contingent. ...

    Article : 106 words
  44. Boer Mission to the States.

    Dr. Kuyper (Premier of Holland), according to a message from the Hague, is convinced that the mission of Messrs. Wessels and Wolmaxans to the United States to induce ...

    Article : 47 words
  45. Colonel Spens's Captures.

    Colonel Spens has brought into Ermelo, in the eastern Transvaal, 11 Boer prisoners and 19 others who had surrendered. Fourteen Boers have surrendered to the ...

    Article : 86 words
  46. America and the Camps.

    News cornea from Washington that the Hon. John Hay, United States Secretary of State, has refused to ask the British Am. bassador for passports to enable Dr. and Mrs. ...

    Article : 55 words
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