The Cape Town correspondent of "The Times," states that the Boer raid into the Cap[?] Colony is a manifest failure, as t[?] Dutch colonists have neither joined the ...
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Article : 112 wordsA mixed British force, with seven guns, has expelled the Boers from the kopjes north-west of Steynsburg, in the Cape Colony. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Mattheus Jacobus du Plessis, Bond member of the Cape House of Assembly for Cradock, has written a letter, urging the burghers in the district to remain quiet. ...
Article : 38 wordsGeneral De Wet, who was last reported to be near Senekal, 35 miles north-west of Ficksburg, on the Basutoland border, refuses to make a stand against the British. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe committee appointed by the Cricket Association to choose a team to represent Victoria in the inter-state cricket match, to be played on New Year's Day, met last night ...
Article : 67 wordsA Reutcr's telegram from South Africa states that the experience gained in the long continued pursuit of De Wet has made the British mounted infantry the finest in the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe district around Ladybrand, in the south-east of the Orange River Colony, near the Basutoland border, has now been cleared of the Boers. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe regulations under the Old-age Pensions Act were passed on Thursday by the Executive Council, and immediately after the holidays persons 65 years of age and ...
Article : 437 wordsIn consequence of the heavy and persiste[?]t Boer sniping at British convoys at Zeerust, north-east of Mafeking, in the Western Transvaal, Lord Methuen has cancelled the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Paris journal "Le Siecle" publishes an interview with a Hollander who has arrived from the Transvaal. He says that General Louis Botha, the ...
Article : 97 wordsLord Roberts, who sailed from Cape Town on the 14th inst., and is expected to arrive in tho Solent on January 2, has reached Madeira. ...
Article : 30 wordsGeneral Baden-Powell, speaking at Port Elizabeth yesterday, said that a moral derivable from the war was that, the colonies should mutually help one another. To-day ...
Article : 62 wordsA regiment of cyclists is being formed in the Cape Colony for the purpose of protecting the British lines of communication. ...
Article : 25 wordsLieut. Clarence Wilson, of the Prince Alfred's Guard, writes to his brother, Cr. B. R. Wilson, under date 27th November, from Cape Town, and we cull the following from ...
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The Riverine Herald (Echuca, Vic. : Moama, NSW : 1869 - 1954; 1998 - 2002), Sat 29 Dec 1900, Page 3
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