General Schalk Burger, who is in command of the Boer forces around Ladysmith, told a British officer that the Boers would fight to the last, though ...
Article : 92 wordsGeneral Schalk Burger has furnished his report of the battle of Tugela River to the Boer authorities at Pretoria. He states that the Boer casualties numbered ...
Article : 82 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Henry Boiler has destroyed the road bridge over the Tugela River, with the object of preventing the Boers to the south of the river ...
Article : 73 wordsArrivals.—Morayshire, steamer, from The Bluff (November 5); Gulf of Siam, steamer, from. Gladstone (September 1S); Medic, steamer, from Sydney ...
Article : 60 wordsIf current rumors have any foundation in fact, the service contracts are more or less honeycombed with secret commission and other abuses (says the ...
Article : 228 wordsA shocking disaster at sea is reported from America. The steamer Ariosto, while bound from Galyeston, the principal seaport of ...
Article : 147 wordsMt. James Hay, who was formerly [?] den: of the Johannesburg Chamber of [?] and who is now in London, takes a [?] tic view of the fate of Johannesburg. ...
Article : 334 wordsThe members of the Western Australian unit of the Australian Mounted Infantry, for service in South Africa, will parade at the Perth Drill-hall at ...
Article : 328 wordsHorse sickness has made its appearance among the troop horses in NataL. ...
Article : 22 wordsNumbers of women and boys are assisting Colonel Baden-Powell's spirited defence of Mafeking The siege is reported to be weakening. ...
Article : 35 words"Le Matin" (Paris) says:-There is talk, in obscure terms and veiled hints, of making some one, who occupies at the present moment a high official ...
Article : 383 wordsThe London "Times" is responsible for the statement that no important movement will be made by the British for a week, or until the transport ...
Article : 76 wordsA letter received from a correspondent at Delagoa. Bay illustrates in a striking manner the sufferings endured by refugees from the Transvaal ...
Article : 646 wordsAs showing the stubbornness with which the British soldiers, fought at Tugela River, it is stated that, on an average, 68 used cartridges were found ...
Article : 95 wordsThe deaths is announced of Lord Ludlow, at the age of 71 years. Henry dairies Lopes; Lord Ludlow, was the third son of Sir .Ralph Lopes. ...
Article : 111 words"A Merry Christmas, Bob," said Scrooga, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as lie claped him on the back. "A Merrier Christians, cir good fellow, than I ...
Article : 843 wordsThe British War Office has completed its preparations for the mobilisation of the 8th Division. The despatch of the 7th Division ...
Article : 40 wordsCount Joseph Vassilyevich Gourko, the distinguished Russian General, has, gone to Delagoa Bay. He is accompanied by two Dutch officers. ...
Article : 248 wordsMr. Woodville, a resident of Cape Town, is said to have warned the British Government in 1894 that he had seen written plans in Pretoria relating ...
Article : 63 words'The death toot place yesterday of Canon Henry John Ellison, the founder of the Church. of England Temperance Society. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Hon. Lionel Walter Rothschild, the eldest son of Lord Rothschild, and Lieutenant of the Royal Bucks Yeomanry, has volunteered for service at ...
Article : 47 wordsVolunteers continue to offer, and the various patriotic funds are receiving liberal support The old exhibition enclosure has been chosen for a ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Hon. Thomas Allnutt Brassey, son of Lord Brassey, the Governor of Victoria, has volunteered for service in South Africa. Mr. Brassey is a ...
Article : 62 wordsNews dated December 25 from Noumea states that a sanitary bulletin was issued on Sunday, announcing that three fresh cases of the bubonic plague ...
Article : 212 wordsThe first battalion of the South Lancashire Regiment has arrived at Durban. It is stated that His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, who is a ...
Article : 112 wordsArrangements are being expedited for the despatch of the Queensland unit Patriotic offers are coming to hand from all parts of the colony with regard to ...
Article : 50 wordsThe movement for seeding tobacco and other necessities to the troops at the Cape and Natal is assuming vast proportions throughout England. An influential ...
Article : 298 wordsThe residents of Gape Town generally estimate that the Boers have 65,000 men in the field. The extensive entrenchments which ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Counters of Essex (nee Adele Grant), who hails from New York, has cabled to Lord Brassey asking him to express personally to Mr.Williamson ...
Article : 51 wordsThe offer of a Canadian squadron of rough riders has been accepted by the British Government. Another similar squadron has been asked for, instead of ...
Article : 68 wordsA relief fond has been started in Sydney in aid of the sufferers. Some wealthy residents of New South Wales have initiated a movement to raise ...
Article : 71 wordsOne-third of the British who were wounded at the battle of Magersfontein on December 11 hare recovered, and have rejoined the ranks. ...
Article : 87 wordsMajor-Gemeral Sir W. F. Gataore has taken further steps to prevent the spread of disloyalty in the Orange River districts of Cape Colony . ...
Article : 66 wordsColenso, which is now a centre of interest from & strategical point of view, is the most northerly settlement in the county of Weenen, which lies to the ...
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Advertising : 113 words"La France Militaire" condemns the craze that officers have nowadays for occupying the crests of hills. In fact, whenever infantry has to defend a position, or is obliged to ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 29 Dec 1899, Page 1
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