An officer of the Natal Police Force, writing to the "Standard" an account of his treatment by the Boers, after capture in Zululand, says:— ...
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Advertising : 992 wordsJohn Hennessy, a fireman on the Rockton, and Harry Anderson, a fireman on the Leura, went swimming on Saturday evening at Townsville (Q.), from the eastern ...
Article : 144 wordsThe "London Gazette" publishes the proclamation of her Majesty the Queen, dated "Balmoral, September 17," declaring that on and after January 1, 1901, the six ...
Article : 59 wordsDuring Saturday evening a number of the crews of the Loch Katrine and of the ship Bracadale, which are moored stern to stern at the Australian Wharf, Melbourne, were ...
Article : 661 wordsTT has been decided that the burghers now surrendering to the British will not be deported to Ceylon or St. Helena, except the officers. The latter will be left to Lord ...
Article : 115 wordsAll the heavy ordnance of the Boers is at Komati Poort, the station on the Portuguese East Africa border. The Boer army is a broken and ...
Article : 112 wordsTwo hundred Chinese officials and their families committed suicide in Pekin during the recent disturbance. ...
Article : 17 wordsOn the recommendation of the Marquis of Salisbury, her Majesty the Queen has assented to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Duchess of York visiting Australia ...
Article : 387 wordsThe Russians have seized the railway property consisting of a frontage to the river at Tien-tsin, intending to make a Russian settlement. ...
Article : 35 wordsA good deal of excitement was occasioned at Circular Quay, Sydney, on Monday night, by a collision between the Port Jackson Steamship Company's steamer ...
Article : 311 wordsA German, naval force, assisted by the Bengal Lancers, captured Liang-hsien, 20 miles south-west of Pekin. Five hundred Boxers were killed. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Daily Mail" states that Lord Roberts will start for home on October 3, and that on his way he will visit the battlefields of Natal. ...
Article : 33 wordsLord Roberts is at Nelspruit, 60 miles; from the Portuguese frontier. He reports two gross cases of white-flag treachery on the part of the Boers. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Chinese destroyed 200 miles of the Russian railway in Manchuria, and killed many Russians. Five Russian regiments have left Pekin ...
Article : 84 wordsLieutenant-General Sir Hector Macdonald pursued 800 Boers, who had three guns, between Winburg and the Vet River, and captured 33 waggons, comprising half the ...
Article : 70 wordsThree members of the Canadian mounted force lost their way, and in endeavoring to regain their company passed, unperceived, through the Boer lines, and entered the ...
Article : 89 wordsAs an outcome of the recent disclosures before the Royal Commission concerning the management of Stoke Industrial School, a Roman Catholic institution, two Marist ...
Article : 861 wordsA representative number of Colonial officers and men now in South Africa will return with the first batch of the army from active service after the proclamation of ...
Article : 129 wordsAn officer of Major-General R. G. Broadwood's division describes the recent defence of Elands River by the Australian Bushmen under Lieutenant-Colonel C. O. Hore ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Bennet Burleigh, of the "Daily Telegraph," sought an interview at Delagoa. Bay with Paul Kruger, who deputed Mr. Berdell, the ex-Commissioner of Police of ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Imperial Parliament has been dissolved. The first elections take place on October 1. Mr. Herbert J. Gladstone, speaking at ...
Article : 150 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts reports ne has heard that General Botha temporarily resigned the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Boer army owing to ill-health. ...
Article : 26 wordsLieutenant-General French, at Barberton, took 500 prisoners and seized specie to the value of £10,000, besides 93 locomotives. Lieutenant-General French was so ...
Article : 52 wordsA tragedy has taken place at the British Embassy here, the Hon. Hugh Grosvenor, one of the second secretaries, committing suicide by shooting himself with a ...
Article : 442 wordsThe English Press presents the effusive patronage and the signal honors which Holland is bestowing on Kruger. The "Standard" states "these honors are ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Boer peace delegates in Europe have appealed to tae nations to intervene in South Africa "now," as they say "that the regular war has ended, and inhuman, ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. W. E. Armit, goldfields warden in New Guinea, now on leave for his health, says Australia would be astonished at the result of the gold bags that have been ...
Article : 256 wordsA terrible tragedy of jealousy is reported from. Caserta, near Naples. Gaetano Longo, being jealous of his wife, murdered her, two men whom he alleged ...
Article : 41 wordsLord Roberts reports that the Boers have destroyed several of their "Long Toms" and field guns. He also cables that 3000 of the enemy ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Governor of Delagoa Bay has informed Mr. Kruger, who is nominally a prisoner in the Governor's house, that the restrictions on his liberty are necessary in ...
Article : 143 wordsTwo hundred of the West African Frontier Force have captured Limu, a stronghold of the Kedari tribe in Nigeria, after a fierce fight. ...
Article : 69 wordsBetween 7 and 8 o'clock on Sunday morning the body of Mr. H. H. M'Mahon, aged 26, was found in Albert-street, Willoughby, immediately under the railway bridge. His ...
Article : 170 wordsIT is reported from Berlin that the Allies attacked and captured the Peitang and Lutai forts, after sustaining heavy loss. ...
Article : 50 wordsIn the Assembly on Tuesday the Wollongong Water Supply Bill and Indecent Publications Act Amending Bill passed the third readings. The Racing Association ...
Article : 77 wordsIt has been noticed, as a curious instance of the irony of fate (says "To-Day"), that hundreds of Chinese carpenters were employed at the Calcutta Docks to prepare the ...
Article : 311 wordsThe literati are circulating leaflets in Canton giving accounts of Chinese victories over the Allies, and stating that the Powers are craving for peace. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Shanghai, correspondent of the "Express" has been, officially informed that the Marquis of Salisbury has cabled to Li Hung Chang, stating that the presence of the ...
Article : 281 wordsThere is a crisis in the cotton trade, owing to the shortage of present supplies and the bad prospects of the American cotton season. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Edinburgh School Board have issued the following circular:—The prevalence of the practice of cigarette smoking by boys and young lads calls for serious attention. ...
Article : 186 wordsThe Moscow correspondent of the "Standard" states that the massacres were perpetrated by the Russians at Blagovyeshchensk, the capital of the Amur province of ...
Article : 141 wordsAt the Water Police Court, Charles. Cook, alias Charles Werner (40), hairdresser, was charged with obtaining the sum of £99 from George Turnbull, the property of the ...
Article : 67 wordsThere were five fresh cases of plague at Glasgow on Tuesday, all of a mild character. ...
Article : 22 wordsOn Thursday, at New South Wales Gun Club Ground, a match between Mr. A. W. Eales, of Sydney, and "Bobby," of Ballarat (who won the Championship of New South ...
Article : 77 wordsTen thousand persons are in a destitute condition in the city of Galveston, and 20,000 others on that part of the mainland of Texas affected by the recent storm ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. J. Goodnow, the United States Consul-General at Shanghai, estimates that the Boxers have massacred 50,000 native Christians. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe steamers Stormaran (bound from Manchester to Hamburg) and Gordon Castle (West Africa to Barrow-in-Furness) collided during a fog in Cardigan Bay. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Egyptian mail steamer Chaxkieh has been wrecked at Rosetta. One hundred lives were lost. The Socialist Congress in Germany has ...
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Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 23 Sep 1900, Page 8
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