Lora Stanley (Financial Secretary to the War Office), in reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday, said that the cost of the war in South Africa up to the end ...
Article : 71 wordsA report received at the War Office states that the British columns operating in the Ficksbnrg district, in the south-east of the Orange River Colony, have captured 10 ...
Article : 38 wordsSeveral farmers in West Griqualand, in the north of Cape Colony, have been sentenced to imprisonment for four and three years for acting in concert with the Boer officials. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe reserve equadron of the Seventh Dragoon Guards now at Aldershot, also the Sixteenth Lancers now at the depot have been warned to be in readiness to embark for South ...
Article : 35 wordsAt the time of the driving operations, Commandant De Wet was on the western side of the Wilge River, and he and Commandant Weasels attempted to cross to assist ...
Article : 55 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 421 wordsThe newspapers, in referring to the Vrede-Bothusberg blockhouse line battle, comment upon the fact that at the moment when Canada was celebrating ...
Article : 81 wordsThe British force escorting Colonel Van Donop's convoy consisted of 16 officers and 451 men. One officer and 105 men were taken prisoners or the Boers, but were ...
Article : 44 wordsA force of Boers from another district suddenly appeared to the south-west of Klerksdorp (the terminus of the railway line running south-west from Johannesburg), and ...
Article : 80 wordsThe following deaths from enteric fever have been reported Lance-corporal P. George, of the seventh contingent New Zealand Mounted Infantry, ...
Article : 37 wordsWith regard to the capture of Colonel Von Donop's empty convoy by the Boers near Klerksdorp in the south-west of the Transvaal, the first list of tho British casualties ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Right Hon. W. St. John Brodrick (Secretary of State for War), in reply to a question in the House of Commons, stated that the Burgher National Scouts received 5s. ...
Article : 50 wordsIn reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain stated that Lord Kitchener had spontaneously accepted the surrender of some ...
Article : 62 wordsToo Pretoria correspondent of the "Time,: writing on February 8, emphasises the necessity for fresh horses for the troops in South Africa, and declares that ...
Article : 177 wordsWith reference to the capture of Fieldcornet Stephanos Grobelaar, later news states that Colonel Mackenzie's column surprised Commandant Hans Grobelaar's laager. Hans ...
Article : 42 wordsCommandant Ben Viljoen, who was captared near Lydenburg, in the north-east of the Transraai, in January last, is to be sent to St. Helena. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe War Office is inviting tenders* to be sent in by March 5, far the supply of 2,000,000 lbs. of preserved meat. It also is announced that the War Office will be willing ...
Article : 47 wordsThe War Office is inviting tenders for 500 tons of Australian floor for Durban for orders. ...
Article : 18 wordsGeneral Vilonel and 1,500 of the Burgher National Scouts hare expressed a patriotic desire to end the present criminal struggle, and they express their determination to ...
Article : 38 wordsLater news respecting the attack on the Vrede-Bothasberg line to the southward shows that the Boers goaded a herd of cattle to a gallop in order that the beasts might effect ...
Article : 285 wordsThe continuation of the sweeping movement against Commandant De Wet, after the battle at the Vrede-Bothasberg blockhouse line, has resulted in a heavy loss to the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe native cattIe-drires with Commandant De Wet's force ore reported to be deserting wholesale. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe following Australian casualties are announced: Private William John Dunstan, of the fifth West Australian contingent, and Private Harry Spiers, of the second New ...
Article : 37 wordsA force of 600 Boers, driving before them a herd of cattle, rushed the British outposts at Bothasberg on Sunday night last, with a view to breaking through the cordon which ...
Article : 72 wordsNews has been received that the columns engaged in the great drive of the Boers in the Orange River Colony, which culminated in the capture of 800 of the enemy, were ...
Article : 60 wordsIn reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday, the Right Hon. W. St. John Brodrick stated that the concentration camp near Pietersburg had not been raided ...
Article : 382 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 183 wordsIt has transpired that Colonel Rawlinson, whose column bore the brunt of the fighting gave the Boers on hour's armistice, during which they were to decide whether to ...
Article : 50 wordsA return bas been published by the War Office showing that up to the end of November, Cape Colony had furnished the Boers with no fewer than 11,300 recruits. The ...
Article : 178 wordsLord Kitchener in his despatch to the War Office says the effectiveness of the fire of the Australians is shown by the fact that a large proportion of the cattle captured on February ...
Article : 38 wordsLord Kitchener reports that the Nww Zealanders who were wounded in the blockhouse line battle on February 27 are doing well. The other casualties include one officer killed ...
Article : 39 wordsThe following are the casualties among the Seventh Contingent New Zealand Mounted Infantry in the Vrede-Bothasberg blockhouse line battle on Sunday last:— ...
Article : 198 wordsA body of the South African Constabulary, under the command of Colonel Colleton, on February 19, surprised a Boer laager, near Baltraville, and captured 16 of the enemy, ...
Article : 43 wordsNews has been received that the father of the late Commandant Scheepers has surrendered to the British at Wonderfontein. ...
Article : 23 wordsA party of Boers tried to cross the line of blockhouses to the eastward of Tafelkop, in the north-east of the Orange River Colony. The attempt was made during the night, ...
Article : 55 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Fri 7 Mar 1902, Page 9
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: