It is officially reported that the enemy has evacuated Laing's Nek. General Sir Redvers Buller is four miles north of Volksrust, the town just over the ...
Article : 173 wordsThe " Boxers " burnt the new summer residence of Sir Claude Macdonald (the British Ambassador at Pekin) in the hills, though it had been placed under the ...
Article : 120 wordsLord Curzon, the Governor-General of India, cables that the famine is far worse than that of 1807. The Government, he says, is supporting ...
Article : 72 wordsAn application has been forwarded to the Government by the board of management of the Australian Natives' Association for permission to form a third corps in connection with the ...
Article : 197 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts, telegraphing on June 12 from Pretoria, reports that Johannesburg is quiet, and that the inhabitants are thankful for peace and ...
Article : 48 wordsA quorum of members of the Legislative Council having assembled shortly before 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, they proceeded with the President to Government House, where the Address in ...
Article : 1,575 wordsLaing's Nek and Majuba were evacuated on Monday night by the Boers, and General Sir Redvers Buller occupies a position north of Volksrust. ...
Article : 8,081 wordsIt was reported some days age that the Cabinet of Cape Colony was equally divided on the question of supporting Mr. Schreiner, the Premier, in his ...
Article : 284 wordsThe total casualties of British forces in action in South Africa, computed to the 9th instant, are as follows:— Officers.. 1,276 ...
Article : 53 wordsThere has been a monsoon on the Malabar coast and northwards. Rain has fallen in Decean and in the Central Provinces. ...
Article : 28 wordsAt a meeting of the Marine Board yesterday the case of the steamer Ripple, which stranded on the Barrier Reef on May l8, came under discussion. The master inserted that he gave the ...
Article : 150 wordsA representative meeting of citizens was held last evening in the council-chambers, after the termination of the usual meeting of the council. The Mayor (Alderman J.J. Whyte) occupied the chair, and ...
Article : 188 wordsAs the Viceroy of Chi-li refused, permission for the naval contingent from the H.M.S. Aurora to proceed, Captain E. H. Bayly, her commandor, commandeered the ...
Article : 149 wordsLieut.-General Lord M[?]thuen routed the Boers under Commandant De Wet at Rhenoster River, north of Kroonstad. ...
Article : 26 wordsCaptain Jenkins, of the Victorian Mounted Infantry, who was invalided to England, has arrived. He is now convalescent. ...
Article : 27 wordsAn application was made to the Chief Justice in Chambers this morning in the matter of Mulholland v. John Tyson Doneley, the Queensland Trust and Agenoy Company, Limited, and Hon. ...
Article : 203 wordsThe Indian Famine Fund now amounts to £1436. ...
Article : 14 wordsTwo thousand "Boxers," who were trying to isolate 16 British marines ahead of the leading train conveying marines to Pekin, were repulsed with Maxim guns, ...
Article : 47 wordsColonel Carter has had a severe engagement with the Ashantis, who were entrenched at Dompoassi, about 30 miles south of Kumasi. There were 97 ...
Article : 70 wordsIt is officially stated by the War Office that a column operating southwards has defeated the Boers and has reoccupied Honing Sprait, on the railway line ...
Article : 62 wordsThe University of Cambridge has conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (L.L.D.) upon Sir Walter Lawry Buller, who has been for many years ...
Article : 45 wordsM. Delcasse, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the course of a speech in the Chamber of Deputies, declared that the " Boxers " were a ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Chinglu, from southern ports, arrived on Sunday and sailed for Hongkong on Monday. The Airlie, from Hongkong, arrived to-day. Her passengers were-Mr. and Mrs. St. Aubyn, ...
Article : 73 wordsPrivate F. Suttie, of the Victorian infantry, reported to have been taken prisoner at Rensburg five months ago, was killed at Blastershoek. ...
Article : 29 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Willcocks, who was last reported at Fesu with a relief column of 250 is now at Prahsu, 50 miles south of Kumasi. Floods are ...
Article : 36 wordsThe men of the Derbyshire Militia (4th) battalion captured near Roodewal on Thursday have been taken to Vrede, in the north-eastern portion of the Orange ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Boers have evacuated Laing's Nek, and General Buller occupies a position four miles north of Volksrust. This is the satisfactory news announced this morning, and it will be received ...
Article : 527 wordsMr. Stanley Rowley, the New South Wales athlete, ran second in the Glasgow 100 Yards (handicap) Footrace. He was beaten by l8 inches, and ran the distance ...
Article : 46 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company yesterday, the chairman (Sir Thomas Sutherland, M.P.) stated that two-thirds ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Campbelltown Show to-day was very successful. The exhibit of merino sheep was admitted to be the best seen in Tasmania. The veteran ram President was shown for exhibition ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. Steyn, the ex-Prosident, is near Reitz, 75 miles east of Kroonstad. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe public accounts for the year ended June 30. 1899, accompanied by the twenty-ninth report of the Auditor-General, were laid upon the table of the Legislative Assembly last night. In his report Mr. ...
Article : 721 wordsPrince K. S. Ranjitsinhji the cricketer, in consecutive innings, scored 222 runs against Somersetshire, and 215 (unfinished) against Cambridge. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Tsung-li-Yamen announces that Russia is bringing a large force to Pekin. Nine hundred British troops now at ...
Article : 41 wordsLieutenant Cecil Lamb, of the New South Wales Regiment of Royal Australian Artillery, has been appointed an assistant commissioner at Jagersfontein, ...
Article : 37 wordsSir Henry Brougham Loch, formerly Governor of Victoria, Governor of Cape Colony and High Commissioner for South Africa from 1889 to 1895, is ...
Article : 32 wordsCaptain Hayhurst, Sergeant Bond, and Corporal Symes, invalided New Zealanders, returned by the Paparoa, which arrived at Wellington today without calling at Hobart. ...
Article : 59 wordsMachadodorp, 156 miles east of Pretoria, has been proclaimed the capital of the Transvaal. The majority of the inhabitants of the ...
Article : 35 wordsJapan is ordering 4000 troops to embark. Japan demands a sphere of influence in China, comprising the provinces of Chekiang, Fo-kien, and Kiang-si, in the ...
Article : 44 wordsAt the sales of Australian tallow to-day 775 casks were offered, of which 264 were sold. Mutton, fine, realised 27s; mutton, medium, 25s 6d; beef, fine, 26s; and ...
Article : 40 wordsThe select committee on Mr. Robson's charges concluded its inquiry this morning, and reported to the House this afternoon that the charges had not been substantiated. The report was ordered ...
Article : 356 wordsThe Navy Bill in the German Reichstag, providing for a large increase in the Navy, has been road the third time by 201 votes to 103. ...
Article : 34 wordsSixty of the Johannesburg police, with a Maxim, surrendered to LieutenantGeneral Sir A. Hunter, who, according to latest reports, was at Ventersdorp. ...
Article : 55 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3 11-16d per ounce standard. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 343 wordsIt is reported that the American troops in the Philippines have captured Delpilar, the most daring general of the Filipinos. ...
Article : 30 wordsIn the course of his statement regarding the proposed conference of Premiers, Mr. Rutledge, the Attorney-General, said that he had received a telegram from Mr. Lewis, which he had also sent to' ...
Article : 423 wordsThe British shelled a train conveying prisoners to Nooitgedacht, believing that it carried fugitive burghers. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe federal delegates are on a visit to Mr. Chamberlain at Highbury, Birmingham, and are inspecting the works of Birmingham and Sheffield. ...
Article : 30 wordsCommandant Olivier was killed, and Commandant De Villiers mortally wounded, at an engagement at Rookrantz. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Third Coutingent, or rather the remnant of it, consisting of men who had remained to the very last stage in the hope of Matting to South Africa, was dishauded yesterday. The men had the ...
Article : 139 wordsAt a review at Aldershot on Monday 300 cases of sunstroke occurred. There were four deaths. ...
Article : 23 wordsH.M.S. Doris conveyed a number of whaleboats to [?]osi Bay, in Zululand, intending to land a force which should operate in Swaziland. ...
Article : 46 wordsSir Julian Salomons, the ex-AgentGeneral of New South Wales, sails from London in the R.M.S. India, which leaves on the 14th instant. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe steamer Coraki at midday was high and dry, and had moved towards Crowdy Hend[?]. The vessel is lying on an oven keel, broadside on to the sea, and is in no danger. it is expected she will be got off if ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Victorian Scouts, organised by Councillor Cameron, of Bairnsdale, have gone to Mnrandellas. ...
Article : 21 wordsMiss A. Grecnway, secretary of the St. John Ambulance Association, has receive—from Mrs. Vandeleur Kelly, for the New South Wales troops in South Africa, 3 pairs of knitted socks; from Mrs, ...
Article : 382 wordsNotices of motion were given in the Legislative Assembly last night of intention to introduce the following new bills:—By Mr. Edden, to re-introduce the Labour Unions' Emplayees Protection Bill at the ...
Article : 151 wordsDr. William Lauigan, Roman O[?]tholic Bishop of Goulburn, died at a quarter-past 8 to-night. Dr. Lauigan had been ill five weeks, but it was not expected that the end would come so soon. He was 81 ...
Article : 93 wordsThe cargo of wheat by the ship Guiseppe has been sold off the coast at 29s 6d ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 94 wordsMajor W. T. Bridges, of the New South Wales Rogiment of Royal Australian Artillery, and Major P. T. Owen, of the New South Wales General Staff, Special ...
Article : 49 wordsIn the Boulder Police Court to-day the case of alleged diamond robbery was continued. T. W. Wheatley was committed for trial. ...
Article : 29 wordsA Chinaman at North Rockhampton, named Ab Chow, has been pronounced to be suffering from the plague. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 14 Jun 1900, Page 7
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