The brigading of Australian forces in one body is steadily proceeding. The Victorians are in a corps which comprisen the Tasmanians, Western Australians, 480 Imperial Mounted Infantry, and ...
Article : 2,157 wordsIt is officially announced that General Sir Redvers Buller, from Dundee, ordered Major Bothune, with a force of 500 mounted men, to proceed to Nqutu, in ...
Article : 185 wordsThe news that Mr. W. J. Lyne, the Premier of New South Wales, has received the honour of Knighthood will hardly strike anyone with surprise. During his term of office he has been brought to the ...
Article : 764 wordsThe Canadian Roughriders and the Queensland Bushmen belonging to MajorGeneral Sir Frederick Carrington's command, all dismounted, accompanied ...
Article : 241 wordsThe "Gazette" contains the following announcements of honours conferred on the occasion of the Queen's Birthday:— PEERAGES. ...
Article : 400 wordsMrs. Reitz, wife of the Transvaal Seeretary of State, and her family, as well as tho wives and families of other Boer officials, have left Pretoria and have gone ...
Article : 44 wordsPresident M'Kinloy has unoflioially received tho Boer Peace Delegates, Messrs. A. Fischer, Wolmarans, and Wessels. President M'Kinley declared that the ...
Article : 61 wordsCommandant sarel Eloff is a young man whose name has been prominent in South Africa for the last five years. Being a grandson of President Kruger there can be little doubt that he has received ...
Article : 577 wordsThe report published in the " Express " that President Kruger had telegraphed to Lord Salisbury in a humble strain has been contradicted. ...
Article : 31 wordsPrivate R. Barber, Victorian Mounted Infantry, and Privates G. Rowe and F. H. Legge, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, have died from fever ...
Article : 61 wordsThe news arriving daily from South Africa tends to show that the Transvaal Government realises the desperate straits in which it is placed. The complete failure of the mission of Messrs. Fischer, ...
Article : 1,273 wordsPrivate H. D. Spyer, of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps, second contingent, in a letter to a West Maitaland resident written from Springfontein on April 5, says:—"We left Capetown on February ...
Article : 944 wordsThe British infantry at Kroonstad, in the northern portion of tho Free State, has begun the advance. ...
Article : 24 wordsA report from Pietermaritzburg states that the Boers have left Natal. When abandoning Laing's Nek they wrecked the railway, thus delaying General Sir ...
Article : 32 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3 9-6d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe public holiday proclaimed for to-day in celebration of the relief of the besieged town of Mafeking was only partiully observed at this centre. The Government and municipal offices together with ...
Article : 241 wordsLieutenant-Colonel B. T. Mahon, who entered Mafoking on Friday last, took 20 waggon loads of supplies for the town. The official report issued from tho War ...
Article : 195 wordsAt the sales of Australian tallow to-day 1275 casks were offered, of which 247 were sold. Mutton, fine, realised 29s; mutton, medium, 27s 3d; beef, fine, ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Premier informed a " Herald " reporter last night that he had noticed the cable news in the newspapers suggesting the erection of a memorial of the war in London, "lest we forget" the fallen ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Westminster, and a number of Nationalist members of the House of Commons have congratulated the Australian ...
Article : 54 wordsAt the Stock Exchange smoke concert held to-night in honour of the relief of Mafeking, the Premier, in replying to the toast of the Ministry, acknowledged the excellent support accorded himself ...
Article : 181 wordsThe views of his Excellency the Governor on the proposal for the erection of a national monument to the war were sought by a "Herald" reporter yesterday. Lord Beauchamp, through his private ...
Article : 111 wordsEx-Alderman Alfred Asher, J.P., was entertained by the ratepayers of teh Honeysuckle Ward of the city municipality at a smoke concert at the Cambrian Hall to-night in recognition of his past ...
Article : 226 wordsMr. J.H. Symon, Q.C., chairman of the Judiclary Committee of the Federal Convention, was seen today regarding the apparently satisfactory agreement larrived at between the Imperial authorities and the ...
Article : 266 wordsWith reference to the proposal of the London "Daily Express" to erect a national memorial of the war Mr. Holder said to-day:—" Every Briton must feel that the first occasion on which the sons of the ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Legislative Council has adopted the Address in Reply. In the Assembly, the Premier moved the second reading of the Federation Enabling Bill. The early ...
Article : 87 wordsThe schooner Lady Mabel, which ran aground on the Middle Bank at Port Stephens yesterday, was successfuly floated this afternoon and towed to Newcastle by the steamtug Hero. The owner, Captain ...
Article : 170 wordsA case of plague was reported to-day. A man named Humphrie, working at a large grocery store, has contracted the disease. ...
Article : 28 wordsHis Excellency the Governor has received the following cablegram from Mr. Chamberiain, Secretary of State for the Colonies:—Her majesty commande me to convey to you her thanks to the peoplo of New ...
Article : 62 wordsThe military stamps which the Post Office Department has determined to issue for the purpose of increasing the Patriotic Fund were received from the Government Printer yesterday. The issue consists of ...
Article : 184 wordsThe plague has broken out at Rio Janerio, Brazil. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe Governor has sent the following cablegram to Mr. Chamberlain:—"I respectfully offer to her Majesty most loyal and loving greetings from her devoted subjects in New Zealand on her ...
Article : 42 wordsA high official in the Transvaal has informed the Rev. Adrian Hofmeyr that President Kruger dreads an invasion from the west, where he has insufficient men to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 wordsNumerous attactions of a varied character have been provided for to-morrow a holiday. The principal event will be the Birthday reunion of the Newcastle Jockey Club, and a programme of six events ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Royal Commission of ministers of religion appointed to drawn up a scheme of Scripture lessons for the use of State schools met in Parliament House to-day, Archdeacon Langley ...
Article : 125 wordsTrooper C. E. Mills, of the Queensland contingent, writing from Bloemfontein on March 14, supplies an interesting account of the battle of Driefontein. He says:—"On March 10 I was one of the orderlies to ...
Article : 702 wordsThe majority of the third contingent have been sleeping in large E. P. tents at the Victoria Barracks, but on Tuesday night, owing to the heavy rain making inroads underfoot, the men were quarterad ...
Article : 71 wordsThe New Zealand Turst and Loan Company, Limitod, has decided to reduce its capital to 4o,000 shares with a value of £5 each (£200,000). ...
Article : 42 wordsThe steamer Argus sailed to-day for Madras and Calcutta, via Gladstone (Queensland), with 1500 tons of Stockton coal. In the intercolonial trade the steamer Glauces left for Melboune with 1800 ...
Article : 61 wordsA cable has been received by Major-General French from major-General Forestier Walker, officer commanding the troops in Cape Colony, stating that between 60 and 70 men belonging to the various ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsA meeting of the municipal council was held to [?]ensider the waterworks liability. A deputation was appointed to wait on the Minister for Works to indeavour to obtain a substantial reduction of the ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. Harold Parsons, member for the North-east Province in the Legislative Council, who has been avsebt for some months in London, has placed his resignation in the hands of the President. ...
Article : 69 wordsA paragraph published in the "Midland News" (Capetown), of April 14, is to the effect that " a Free State Government "Gazette Extraordinary' stipulates that no p[?]tson commandered for active ...
Article : 86 wordsThe corespondent of the "Times" at Dolagoa Bay states that President Kruger, fearing confiscation, has transferred the bulk of his fortune to the names of various ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 24 May 1900, Page 5
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