LONDON, December 27.—Kimberley has sufficient provisions for six months. ...
Article : 67 wordsShooting and riding—riding and shooting—these are the main features of the Randwick Encampment day after day, varied, for those who have already passed their examinations, by drills and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 280 wordsLONDON, December 27.—The British cruiser Forte, one of the vessels of the Cape of Good Hope and West African Station, has captured a cargo of stretchers and railway sleepers in Delagoa ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, December 27.—Twenty thousand men have volunteered for the Imperial Yeomanry Brigade being organised for service in South Africa. ...
Article : 25 wordsLONDON, December 27.—Fever and pink-eye have broken out in the Boer camp at Magersfontein. Pink-eye has also appeared among the horses of ...
Article : 35 wordsNARRABRI, Thursday.—Five sleeper-cutters have volunteered for the Cape. They say they cannot shoot or ride, but are willing to dig trenches or destroy bridges, or do any other hard work ...
Article : 85 wordsThe hon. treasurers, Messrs. J. Russell French and T. A. Dibbs, are in receipt of the following additional subscriptions: Amount previously acknowledged (corrected), £6640 18s 3d; John ...
Article : 307 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—It is now expected that there will be another great public demonstration on the departure of the second contingent for South Africa, though the military authorities ...
Article : 480 wordsGeneral French inspected "A" Battery behind the Engineers' Quarters, Paddington Rifle Range, on Wednesday afternoon. The battery—six 15-pounder guns, with limbers and waggons, ...
Article : 512 wordsLike his brother lieutenants, Mr. Sweetland is a native of New South Wales, having been born at Newcastle in 1869. He was educated at All Saints' College, Bathurst, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 117 wordsLONDON, December 27, 3.44 p.m.—The Boers refrain from replying to Lord Methuen's shells, fearing to disclose their positions by [?]o doing. Disappearing guns are harassing Lord ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, December 27.—Members of the Afrikander Bund at Capetown report that 8000 European officers and men skilled in artillery tactics are held in reserve at Pretoria. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 293 wordsLONDON, December 27.—General Cronje, the Boer commander at Magersfontein, has notified that he declines to hold communication with Lord Methuen until the end of the war. ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, December 27, 3.44 p.m.—Accounts of the escape of Lieutenant Winston Churchill, the "Morning Post" correspondent, from Pretoria, . state that he scaled a wall at night and boarded a ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, December 27.—The Marconi instruments for wireless telegraphy intended for the Boers, recently seized by the British at Capetown, have been used in experiments made by the ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, December 27.—The "Daily News" correspondent states that it was Colonel Adye, Lieutenant-General Sir G. S. White's staff officer accompanying Lieutenant-Colonel Carleton's ...
Article : 46 wordsWriting from the steamer Aberdeen at Capetown on December 5, to his brother in Sydney, Private George Chester, of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, says:—"Just a few lines. We called at ...
Article : 339 wordsLONDON, December 27.—Russia is hastily dispatching reinforcements from Odessa to the Far East. ...
Article : 23 wordsLONDON, December 27, 3.44 p.m.—Barbed wire has been placed at the bottom of the fords of the Tugela River. The guns captured on the 15th instant by the ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, December 27, 3.44 p.m.—The second battalion of the King's Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) and the second battalion (formerly the 77th—East Middlesex—Regiment) have arrived at ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, December 27.—A number of fruit and dairy produce firms at Liverpool have entrusted Mr. Whittles with a mission to Australia to develop the trade and direct shipments to the ...
Article : 38 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Airey and Veterinary Lieutenant Symons were yesterday engaged at the Victoria Barracks inspecting and purchasing horses for the use of the Army Medical Corps ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 521 wordsLONDON, December 27.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 1,620,000 quarters, 150,000 quarters less than last week; and for the Continent at ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, December 27.—In the action at the Tugela River on the l5th instant General Sir Redvers Buller, who was under heavy fire, had a narrow escape, a bullet having grazed his ribs. ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, December 27.—Before leaving England Lord Roberta obtained a promise that the 16th (the Queen's) Lancers, now stationed at Umballa, in the Punjab, should be dispatched to South ...
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Advertising : 1,063 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Lyne) has received an offer from Mr. H. J. Rayment, director, and Mr. Abdul Wade, manager, of the Bourke Carrying Company, of ten of the best of their camels free of ...
Article : 586 wordsLONDON, December 27.—A heliograph signal has been received at Cheveley from Ladysmith, intimating that the garrison can hold out indefinitely. The British casualties at the sortie from ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, December 27.—The following steamer have been chartered by the British Government for the conveyance of troops to "South Africa: Umbria (Cunard Line), Cymric (White Star), ...
Article : 49 wordsIn general orders this morning, the following arrangements are announced for the embarkat[?] of the "A" Battery, R.A.A., forming a portion of the second contingent, leaving Sydney per ...
Article : 382 wordsLONDON, December 27.—General Joubert, who temporarily resigned his command of the Boer forces before Ladysmith in consequence of illness, has recovered and gone to the front again. ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, December 27.—Lord Roberts, the Commander-in-Chief of the forces in South Africa, has arrived at Gibraltar, on board the steamer Dunottar Castle. He was there joined ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, December 27.—It is stated that President Kruger is suspicious of the presence of British spies in the Boer ranks. ...
Article : 25 wordsLONDON, December 27, 3.44 p.m.—The "Daily Chronicle" states that the Australian infantry are stationed at Enslin, the Canadian troops at Belmont, and the Queensland Mounted Bines at ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, December 27.—The Cape Mounted Police have occupied Dordrecht, about 50 miles north-west of Sterkstroom. The Boers retreated from the town. ...
Article : 29 wordsLONDON, December 27.—Trooper G. Bradford, of the New Zealand contingent, who was recently wounded and captured by the Boers during a skirmish near Arundel, and who was at first ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, December 27.—Three members of the Cape House of Assembly have been implicated in seditious acts. ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON, December 27.—The "Times" correspondent at Modder River says that it is difficult to over-estimate the effect of the loyalty displayed by Australia and Canada. The colonial ...
Article : 77 wordsThe following regimental order has been issued by Lieutenant-Colonel Burns, the officer.. ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Thu 28 Dec 1899, Page 5
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