Following the operations on June 11 at Eerste Fabrieken (Hatherley) the enemy on Tuesday checked the advance of the cavalry on the flanks. ...
Article : 359 wordsIn Committee of the Whole in the House of Commons on Monday, Mr. Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, will embody in the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe foreign legations at Pekin have been barricaded. June 17. All foreigners in Pekin are now ...
Article : 54 wordsIt in officially announced that General Botha retreated to Middelburg after his defeat at Eerste rabrieken, and that his rearguard was surprised and thoroughly routed by General Ian Hamilton's ...
Article : 6,369 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Delagoa Bay reports that it is a matter of notoriety that President Kruger is in favour of peace on almost any terms; but that he ...
Article : 56 wordsThe British prisoners at Nooitgedacht, whence they were removed by the Boers upon the evacuation of Pretoria, are without shelter, and are suffering terribly ...
Article : 49 wordsMajor-General Baden-Powell has been raised to the local rank of Lieutenant-General. He commands 800 men, and is engaged pacifying the Marico, ...
Article : 87 wordsThe ten thousand troops outside Pekin, commanded by General Mung-fuh-siang, who was said to be entrenching to resist the advance of Vice-Admiral Sir E. H. ...
Article : 83 wordsThere are many desertions from the Boer forces at Machadodorp despite the colossal lies which President Kruger is daily printing in his bulletin of British ...
Article : 44 wordsThe following is a copy of the telegram received by his Excellency the Governor, Lord Tennyson, from Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and which has been referred to in the ...
Article : 346 wordsLord Roberts has despatched a column to meet Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell and to repair the telegraph line between Pretoria and Rustenburg. ...
Article : 27 wordsMajor Lord Edward Cecil, D.S.O., has been appointed to administer Zeerust, in the Marico district, 125 miles west of Pretoria. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. B. R. Wise, Q.C., Attorney-General of New South Wales, and Mr. R. E. O'Connor, Q.C., of New South Wales, members of the Federal Convention, have ...
Article : 226 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph " states that 23,000 natives in the Congo Free State, in equatorial Africa, have risen against the Belgians. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Powers have resolved to seize the Taku forts on the south coast of the Gulf of Pe-chi-li and at the entrance of the highway to Pekin. The Russians have landed ...
Article : 47 wordsWhen Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Hunter summoned Klerksdorp, the officials and General Cronje, a son of General Cronje, captured by ...
Article : 48 wordsKlerksdorp, in the Potchefstroom district, surrendered to Lieutenant-General Sir A. Hunter on June 9. ...
Article : 21 wordsMr. A. M. Paton won a position in the first class at the Inter-collegiate Examinations for mechanical sciences at Cambridge University. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn anticipation of Western Australia entering the Commonwealth no one of the original States the Cabinet concluded the mapping out of Victoria into 23 electorates, that being the number of members ...
Article : 288 wordsReuter's correspondent at Washington credits France with having by her diplomacy successfully secured the maintenance of an equilibrium amoug the Powers, ...
Article : 44 wordsSeveral local rebels who fought at Spion Kop have been fined £250 each, in addition to a sentence of five years' imprisonment. ...
Article : 30 wordsTrooper H. E. Proises, of the South Australian Mounted Infantry, fell from his horse and has died. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe late Mrs. W. E. Gladstone will be buried in Westminster Abbey. ...
Article : 21 wordsCaptain R. Thompson, the adjutant of the First Australian Horse, has arrived at Capetown from the front invalided with fever. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Government of Japan, in announcing the despatch of 1000 troops to Tientsin affirms that Japan intends to act inentire concert with the other Powers. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Shah of Persia (Mouzaffer ed-diue) has arrived in Paris. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe "Boxers" are openly exercising in drill and manœuvres at Tientsin. ...
Article : 22 wordsWhat seems to have been a during attempt to enter the Bank of Australia was made last night. This office is situated in the Exchange-buildings, William-street, and the accountant, Mr. Macpherson, ...
Article : 371 wordsDr. Edna Terry, the American Methodists' women's medical missionary, who was reported to have been murdered at Tsun-hua-chau, is safe at Tientsin. ...
Article : 31 wordsPrivate Smith, of the Queensland Mounted Infantry, was reported missing from Kroonstad on June 5. ...
Article : 21 wordsMr. Rutledge, interviewed late to-night, stated that he had prepared, and had forwarded for submission to Mr. Chamberlain, a carefully worded protect specifying a number of reasons why clause 74, ...
Article : 113 wordsThe suggestion of the "Times" that Great Britain should, join Russia in putting an end to the "sinister' rule of the Empress-Downger of China draws attention once more to the career of ...
Article : 1,240 wordsA terrible accident has occurred at Slough Station, near Windsor. Despite the danger signal, the express going to Plymouth ran past it and came ...
Article : 56 wordsSir James Gordon-Sprigg, who was summoned by Sir Alfred Milner to form a Cabinet for Cape Colony, and who has consulted with Mr. W. P. Schreiner and ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Barton considers that by the amendments which have now been agreed upon a happy solution of the difficulty has been arranged. ...
Article : 217 wordsWhen seen to-night Mr. Holder said, "Tnere is one mistake in the press cable. Instead of Sir John Downer and Mr. Symon sending a cable similar to that sent by Messrs. Wise and O'Connor, their ...
Article : 165 wordsFurther details of the engagement at Eerst[?] Fubricken of a week ago, when Lord Roberts inflicted a signal defeat on General Botha, show that this battle, like its predecessors, was a ...
Article : 519 wordsAdmiral Dewey has retired from the Presidential contest in the United States. ...
Article : 23 wordsAddressing his constituents at Bunbury on Friday night, Sir John Forrest referred at great length to federation. He favoured the adoption of the bill by the colony, and said that if they were to become a ...
Article : 509 wordsLieutenant-General Sir H. M. Rundle has intimated to the Boers in the Ficksburg district, bordering Basutoland, that their farms will be confiscated if they do ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 28 wordsThe trial of the six Mauilamen charged with mutiny on the Ethel and with the murder of the captain, near Broome, in October last, was concluded at the Criminal Court on Saturday, after a hearing ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Boers again attacked the Engineers who were reconstructing the railway north of Rhenoster. Major-General Lord Kitchener dispersed the attackers, no ...
Article : 33 wordsFor some time past the Customs authorities have had a suspicion that the revenue was being underpaid in excise duty by a suburban distillery. Officers belonging to the Customs ...
Article : 185 wordsLord Roberts, with a view of isolating the burghers of the Orango River Colony, has ordered General Sir Redvers Buller to proceed to Standerton, 61 miles ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. J. R. Dickson (the Queensland Federal Delegate in London) has cabled to Mr. R. Philp, Premier of Queensland, that Mr. R. B. Haldane, M.P., the ...
Article : 63 wordsJust before midnight on Today it was reported in Balmain that two residents had been taken to the local Cottage Hospital, sufferings from serious wounds, the outcome, it was said, of a quarrel. The ...
Article : 232 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has congratulated General Sir Redvers Buller on his brilliant strategy in the neighbourhood of Laing's Nek, culminating in the ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. E. Barton and Mr. C. C. Kingston will return to Australia in the R.M.S. Omrah, which leaves London on the 22nd instant. ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the course of a speech at Bunbury, Sir John Forrest said that the general elections would take place in May next. He also mentioned that the Government intended calling tenders for the ...
Article : 44 wordsReferring to the question of Australia federation his Excellency, Earl Beauchamp, speaking at a banquet given in his honour in the Town Hall on Saturday evening, expressed the ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Boers are massing at Ermelo, 60 miles north of Volksrust and at Paardekop. They are in a very demoralised ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Premier was seen late last night with reference to the compromise come to, and being asked his opinion spoke as follows:—"I do not think that the clause is perfect by any means. So far as appeals on ...
Article : 458 wordsMr. R. L. Gilmour, Mayor of Bathurst, has been nominated to contest the election for the Bathurst coustituency. He will stand in the liberal and freetrade interests. Mr. A. K. Warden is also in the field. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 72 words"Austral" writes enclosing it newspaper extrac[?] in which it is slated that: "Mr. Provost Battersb[?] has sent to the 'Morning Post' am estimate of the strength of the Boer forces, and pledged ...
Article : 197 wordsPresident Kruger eats and sleeps in his special saloon ear at Machadodorp. An engine is attached to the car and its fire is always alight. ...
Article : 59 wordsInformation has been received by the city police to the effect that last night a man named William Sparkes was killed on board the ship James Kerr, moored in the steam, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 18 Jun 1900, Page 7
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