In a few days the citizens subscribed £10,000 as a fund for providing comforts for the garrison and people of mafeking after their terrible sufferings ...
Article : 52 wordsAn inquest was held yesterday afternoon by the Coroner (Mr. E. Whitfeld) and a jury of seven, with Mr. H. Tingman as foreman, at the All the Year ...
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Advertising : 663 wordsWith a view of providing a worthy souvenir of the Tasmanian contingents now in South Africa, there has been issued from the "Examiner" ...
Article : 676 wordsThe Boers who had fled to Bethlehem, between Lindley and Harrismith, are returning towards Ficksburg. They are endeavouring to draw ...
Article : 60 wordsRight Hon. Sir A. J. Newton, Lord Mayor of London, acompanied by the sheriffs, attended at St. Paul's Cathedral yesterday, where the "Te Deum" ...
Article : 57 wordsThe moment the news was received in London all the members of the Stock Exchange assembled in their magnificent building and sang the National ...
Article : 92 wordsMajor-General Hutton's captives are Philip Botha, a relative of the Boer Chief Commandant, and the Cape rebel Swanepoel. ...
Article : 23 wordsIt has been officially announced that Major-General Sir C. Francis Clery has occupied Ingogo station, some little distance south of Laing's Nek. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe whole city of London was one mass of illuminations, the scene from the higher points being declared to be magnificent. ...
Article : 51 wordsSir Redvers Buller has sent a force into Zululand. The object of this movement is to expel the Boers who had shelter there. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Queen was greatly gratified on hearing that the relief of the gallant garrison and people had been accomplished. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe American residents in Cape Colony are signing an important petition for conveyance to the leaders of the two great parties at Washington. ...
Article : 47 wordsColonel Baden-Powell's achievement in beating off the Boers so frequently and capturing over 90 prisoners towards the close of the siege is the ...
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Article : 344 wordsThe thirteenth annual meeting of the Society for the Blind was held in the Mechanics' Institute last evening, when there was a fair attendance. The Mayor ...
Article : 1,242 wordsIt appears that Commandant De la Ray was the Boer leader who endeavoured to stop the advance of the relief column. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe conduct of Colonel Villebois-Mareuil in taking arms against the English has been severely judged, by certain of his countrymen who witnessed his eagerness ...
Article : 152 wordsAdvices through Delagoa Bay assert that the entire Boer force, with its guns, outside Mafeking was captured. This occurred on the 17th inst. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Government has issued circulars to members of Parliament, stating that there is no urgent business to transact on May 29. When the House ...
Article : 68 wordsIt is now understood that Lieutenant- Colonel Bryan Thomas Mahon, of the 8th (the King's Royal Irish) Hussars, commanded the relief column. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe "Te Deum" was sung in most of the churches throughout the United Kingdom yesterday. Bruises are cured by Chamberlain's ...
Article : 106 wordsIt has been hinted that with the acquisition of the Danish West Indies by the United States this purchase of the Dutch possessions would soon follow. Great ...
Article : 84 wordsA reply will be sent by the Government to-morrow to the last letter received from the solicitors of the Great Western Railway Company, ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Home Secretary has granted a free pardon to the Cambridge University undergraduates, who were convicted of stealing wood for the bonfire ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Tue 22 May 1900, Page 5
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