Thirty-eight of the soldiers who were sent by the French Government to reinforce Major Marchand at the time the "hero of Fashoda" was making his great ...
Article : 43 wordsThe new military scheme of the Government was explained in the House of Lords yesterday, by the Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary of State for War ...
Article : 572 wordsThe British Government has purchased 5,000 horses from Hungary for military purposes in South Africa. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe following are the names of the six Tasmanians who have been missing since the engagement at Rensburg on Friday last, when the Tasmanians ...
Article : 54 wordsA by-election took place yesterday for the London University to fill the position vacated by the elevation of Sir John Lubbock to the peerage. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Australian Bushmen's Fund which is being raised in England now amounts to over £11,000. Recent contributors have been:— ...
Article : 106 wordsThe running for the great coursing event of the year, the Waterloo Cup, has been postponed for a week, owing to the hard frost prevailing. ...
Article : 33 wordsLord Roberts says:—"Reports which indicate that disloyalty exists among Irish regiments are absolutely untrue. In the hour of danger my countrymen ...
Article : 598 wordsThe fund opened at the Mansion-house by the Lord Mayor of London in aid of the sufferers by the famine in India has reached £21,000. ...
Article : 35 wordsTwenty thousand men are working night and day at the Woolwich arsenal, turning out war material. The Japanese Government has ...
Article : 69 wordsA detachment of forty of the New South Wales Lancers, who will leave in the steamer Australasian, on Friday, arrived to-day from Parramatta. They ...
Article : 43 wordsDuring the engagement at Koodoosberg on February 7, between the British under Major-General H. A. MacDonald and a force of Boers, Lieutenant ...
Article : 153 wordsThe French Government is feverishly completing an equipment of quickfiring guns. The ordnance factories are working ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. Simon Fraser, M.L.C., has sent a cheque for £1,000 towards tie Bushmen's Corps, and he will be quite ready to give another £1,000 towards any ...
Article : 38 wordsColonel Wallack will proceed to Africa to be attached to the Imperial forces. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe following is the list tit casualties sustained by the Western Australian Contingent at Slingersfontein, in the Colesberg district, in the recent ...
Article : 206 wordsWheat is 6d. per quarter dearer than it was a week ago. ...
Article : 19 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts, who is at Modder River, has reviewed the members of the Highland Brigade. Addressing the men, Lord Roberts ...
Article : 75 wordsThere is little doubt that the third contingent will sail on Saturday. The work of the selection of the men is very difficult owing to the numerous ...
Article : 59 wordsArrivals.—Itzehoe, steamer, 3,400 tons, from Sydney (December 17); Dunearn, steamer, 2,020 tons, from Sydney (November 19) ; Cornwall ...
Article : 107 wordsWriting from Rensburg on January 12, "Banjo" Paterson said:—Our troops and the Tommies do not fraternise much. They don't seem to take ...
Article : 310 wordsSome weeks ago Lady Lamington, the wife of Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland, asked for comforts and necessaries for the Queensland troops at ...
Article : 52 wordsThe press censors indicate that there will be little news from the front during the next few days. This is interpreted to mean that Lord ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Russian Government has issued an order prohibiting the Chinese from settling in, Manchuria or from colonising in that province. ...
Article : 109 wordsA Durban despatch states that a reassuring heliograph message has been received from General Sir George Stewart White, at Ladysmith. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe French Consul has informed the Premier that from, noon on January 29 to February 4 four fresh cases of bubonic plague had occurred in Noumea. ...
Article : 38 wordsA cable message giving the names of the Westralian killed and wounded was received yesterday morning by his Excellency the Governor, Sir Gerard ...
Article : 95 wordsAnother engagement in which colonials have taken part is reported from Rensburg. A picket of five men belonging to ...
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Advertising : 95 wordsThe proclamation issued by Sir Alfred Milner, the High Commissioner for South Africa, in which he declines to recognise the forfeiture of Uitlanders' ...
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Advertising : 101 wordsThe steamer Kurrara returned from the Solomon Group to-day. Affairs were quiet when the steamer sailed. The British resident at Woodford had ...
Article : 74 wordsSpasmodically we shell the Boer trenches at Magrersfontein, but it is hard to tell whether we are doing them much damage (writes an Australian war ...
Article : 337 wordsThe late Private Conway was in the employment of the Perth Tramway Company as a conductor previously to his departure for South Africa. All the ...
Article : 66 wordsAn instance of signal bravery on the part of one of the Boer commanders is reported from Natal. When Vaal Krantz was attacked by ...
Article : 132 wordsThe work of enrolling volunteers for the Western Australian Bushmen's Contingent, which had to be unavoidably postponed from Monday evening. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 16 Feb 1900, Page 1
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