The colonial wool sales were continued in London yesterday. The proceedings were slow, and there have been large withdrawals. ...
Article : 41 wordsIn his report to the War Office, Lord Roberts, the British Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, gives some further particulars in regard to the attempt of the ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Bishops of the Church of England recommend that on Septuagesima Sunday, February 11, a special intercession should be made in all the churches on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 134 wordsNews has been received that two members of the New Zealand contingent met their deaths as the result of the fight which took place at Rensburg ...
Article : 77 wordsA great controversy is being carried on in the columns of the London "Times" in regard to the quality of the British artillery in comparison with that ...
Article : 64 wordsThe letters which have been written from Natal by Mr. Bennett Burleigh, the special war correspondent of the London "Daily, Telegraph," show that ...
Article : 80 wordsA Cape Town correspondent writing on December 10, says:—Among the means by which the Boers are inducing the wavering Afrikanders to turn ...
Article : 388 wordsThe visible wheat supply in America to the east of the Rocky Mountains is 88,992,000 bushels as against 89,252,000 bushels a week ago. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe London "Standard" of this morning has an article in reference to the value of the Australian troops now in South Africa. ...
Article : 110 wordsA terrible dynamite explosion is reported to have taken place at Turin, in Italy. A dynamite factory in that town blew ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Ladysmith correspondent of the London "Standard" has succeeded in cabling a message in reference to the attack of the Boers on the town on the ...
Article : 308 wordsThe report of the death of the Queenmother of Swaziland is now contradicted. It is said that the Queen has killed all the chiefs who have at different times ...
Article : 64 wordsThe steamer Euryalus, with the Victorian troops on board, arrived at 5 p.m., and anchored in the Sound. She landed two men, and resumed her ...
Article : 71 wordsThe French Government recently adopted the naval proposals of M. Lockroy, a former Minister of Marine, for the expenditure of £10,000,000 on the navy ...
Article : 124 wordsSigner Francisco a, de Veiga Beiras, the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, has made an important declaration in regard to the colonies possessed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller has furnished a, report in connection with the casualties which have been, sustained by the British at the front in Natal. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe transport steamer Southern Cross remained in Watson's Bay throughout last night. Detectives were aboard watching for anything suspicious, but ...
Article : 168 wordsA correspondent of the London "Titles" says:—The truth of the oLd Baying that "An army marches on its stomach" is evidently realised by the ...
Article : 683 wordsThe death is announced of Schomberg Henry Kerr, the ninth Marquis of Lothian, at the age of 66 years. [The Marquis of Lothian was educated ...
Article : 237 wordsThe large force of Boers which has been entrenched at Stormberg for some weeks has been very inactive owing to there having been no forward ...
Article : 76 wordsThe London "Times" of this morning publishes some important information in regard to the movements of General Buller's troops at the Tugela River ...
Article : 175 wordsIn a letter from Ladysmith, W.W. Macgregor, of the Gordon Highlanders, an old Etonian, describes some incidents of the battle of Elands Laagte, and ...
Article : 502 wordsIn addition to cabling to the Queensland troops his admiration of their behavior in the Sunnyside engagement on New Year's Day, Lord Lamington, the ...
Article : 45 wordsAt the camp at Karrakatta saddles, slid harness for about 80 horses have now been delivered by the contractor, and the mounted-drill work can ...
Article : 566 wordsMartial law has been declared in the Hopetown and Philipstown districts of Cape Colony, which, lie between De Aar Junction and the Modder River. ...
Article : 51 wordsAbout 50 ladies assembled in the town-hall to-day to arrange for the formation of a woman's work guild, for the purpose of supplying the Queensland ...
Article : 83 wordsIt is stated that when the captain of the Yorkshire detachment was wounded in the Rensburg engagement, Major W. R. N. Madocks. of the New Zealand ...
Article : 62 wordsA destructive fire occurred at Menzies this morning. The residence of Dr. J. Corlis, the major, was destroyed. The origin of the fire is a mystery. ...
Article : 163 wordsAnother siege train is being organised at the Sheerness arsenal. When complete it will be sent to Cape Town. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe second Tasmanian, contingent left Launceston in the steamer Coogee to-day, to join the steamer Moravian. There was a great demonstration of ...
Article : 30 wordsAn order which, was recently issued by the War Office, summoning British officers from Egypt to South Africa, has been rescinded. ...
Article : 46 wordsIt is reported that small-pox has broken out in the Boer camps in Natal. ...
Article : 20 wordsNews has been received from Mafeking to the effect that the Boers have shelled the women's laager, with the result that a girl was killed and two ...
Article : 57 wordsPrivate J. Cullen, of the Western Australian Infantry serving in South Africa, has written to a Perth friend from Cape Town. He considers that the Western ...
Article : 636 wordsTho cargo of tho German. East African liner Bundesrath has been examined by the British authorities at Durban, where the steamer was conveyed after ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 26 Jan 1900, Page 1
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