Further details have been received of Buller’s advance. It appears that after six days hard fighting, the British established themselves on ...
Article : 139 wordsColonel Price is commanding a force of Australian mounted infantry. He occupied Mooifontein near Rensberg, after a smart fight with 800 Boers ...
Article : 67 wordsIt appear that Major-General Hector MacDonald, who was wounded at Klip Kraal Drift, received two bullet wounds, the first shot in the foot and ...
Article : 34 wordsRichard Robson has achieved fame, or advertisement, which is virtually the same thing, and has loomed up out of the Cimmerian darkness of the cross-benches ...
Article : 1,166 wordsMr Maitland Brawn, our Government Resident, received the following official wire yesterday, and is now prepared to act upon the instructions contained in the telegram. ...
Article : 182 wordsIt is stated that during the pursuit of Cronje some of Lord Roberts’s regiments outstripped their transports. As a Consequence large bodies of these ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Queen and Princess Louise have sent spirited congratulations to Canada, felicitating the Government and people of the dominion upon the gallantry of ...
Article : 30 wordsSome people seem to have a peculiar idea of what is due to the dignity of the office of J.P. Judging from behaviour of some so-called ...
Article : 1,454 wordsGeneral Buller, after three days, furious incessant and fruitless fighting was compelled to attack a more easterly position. Here Major ...
Article : 95 wordsKaiser William has congratulated the Queen and the Prince of Wales upon Lord Roberts’ success. ...
Article : 20 wordsA Reuter’s despatch from Cape Town states that Captain Cameron of the first Tasmanian contingent is slightly wounded and a prisoner at ...
Article : 55 wordsWe received the following telegram yesterday from the Hon. George Throssell, Minister of lands “ I propose leaving Perth on ...
Article : 68 wordsThe war correspondents at the front are urging a shipment of remounts. This step is they declare, rendered necessary by the losses of horses ...
Article : 37 wordsGeneral French, with a strong cavalry division, is now marching on the Free State capital of Bloemfontein. President Steyn has, it is reported, ...
Article : 36 wordsThe fact that the congress of the Africander Bond, which had been fixed for the 8th inst, having been postponed, has occasioned anxiety due ...
Article : 72 wordsGeneral Buller has sustained what appears to be another temporary reverse Baffled in his attack upon Langverwachte Spruit, after heavy ...
Article : 99 wordsBuller reports “There is a considerable body of Boers still at Bulwana mountain. The British losses on Tuesday were not heavy.” ...
Article : 28 wordsTHE following are the drawers of the three placed horses in Mr. Tom Duff’s consultation on the Coolgardie Summer Cup: The Palmer, ...
Article : 404 wordsThe War Office announces that the beleaguered garrison of Ladysmith has been relieved. It has since transpired that ...
Article : 67 wordsParticulars have been received of the meeting of Lord Roberts and General Cronje at Paardeberg after the latter’s surrender on Tuesday last. ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Queen has telegraphed General Buller expressing her deepest concern at the heavy losses among her Irish soldiers. ...
Article : 32 wordsRumors were current in the city to-day that the Premiers of the various colonics had received a cablegram from Mr. Chamberlain requesting them to ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Boer prisoners who surrendered with Cronje at Koodoos Rand have started, under a strong escort, for Cape Town. ...
Article : 47 wordsAt Capetown yesterday Mr. Robert Harris, son of Vice-Admiral Harris and Flag-Lieutenant Kimard, were each fined £1. The offence alleged against ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, estimated that 10,000 Boers and seven concealed guns were engaged in opposing Buller’s advance on Pieter’s Hill. ...
Article : 33 wordsSubsequent to Cronje’s surrender Lord Roberts visited the Boer laager. He declares that the position was almost impregnable to assault. He ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. Bennett Burleiah, the correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, states that the difficulties before Buller and the relief of Ladysmith are proving ...
Article : 45 wordsThe advices received in Perth early this morning from the eastern colonies reference to the above telegram state that, although the Ministers ...
Article : 164 wordsThe same correspondent report that the Somersets and Durhams on Sunday last repulsed a determined attack on the part of the enemy at Fort ...
Article : 55 wordsAt a council of war held in the Boer laager prior to the surrender Cronje was overborne by his commandants, Some of these latter alleged that he ...
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Geraldton Advertiser (WA : 1893 - 1905), Fri 2 Mar 1900, Page 3
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