The names of the party who captured Jimmy Governor (as reported in last issue) were: John Wallace (postmaster at Bobin), Thos. Greek, Thos. Moore, sen., Thos. ...
Article : 254 wordsIt is officially announced that 1000 troops, including 44 officers, 100 cavalry, and four guns, will sail for Sydney from England on November 12, to assist in the ...
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Advertising : 897 wordsWhen Boer raiders surrounded Philippolis a telegraphist escaped from the town, tapped a wire outside, and summoned relief. By this means the little garrison was ...
Article : 98 wordsWhen the N.S.W. Parliamentary military inquiry resumed on Tuesday, Mr. Meagher drew attention to comments appearing there on in the "Daily Telegraph." ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 383 wordsA body of Boers in charge of a large convoy of cattle attacked the British under Major-General Paget, at Piennaars River. Major-General Paget vigorously repulsed ...
Article : 61 wordsJoe Governor was shot dead on Wednesday morning, near Singleton. The story of the fatal chase was told by Jno. Wilkinson, grazier, St. Clair, 30 miles ...
Article : 724 wordsThe Commander-in-Chief, Field-Marshal Lord Wolseley, speaking in London, said that none of the force engaged in South Africa during the war had done better ...
Article : 280 wordsLieutenant-Colonel L. S. Peyton, of the 14th Bengal Lancers, will command the Indian Contingent of 100 mixed troops, which will attend the Commonwealth ...
Article : 46 wordsThe trial of Trooper Smith, of Hue Cape Mounted Police, charged with having, in November last, murdered a native in the Colesburg district, has been concluded by ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 144 words"While one of the tramcars from Roslyn was on its way to Dunedin, New Zealand, on Saturday morning, the gripper failed to catch the rope, and all efforts to stop the ...
Article : 134 wordsAdditional particulars are to hand of the Boer attack upon Jacobsdel, reported la a "Sunday Times" special message. During the night some Jacobsdal ...
Article : 144 wordsJimmy Governor at Wingham made a full statement off all their doings since the murders at Breelong. He admitted everything. Telling how he took to ...
Article : 564 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" reports that, acting under medical advice, the Marquis of Salisbury will resign the office of Minister for Foreign Affairs, but will remain ...
Article : 30 wordsA number of French officers at Yangtsun refused to leave a carriage of a special train intended to carry the 14th American Regiment to Tongku. ...
Article : 92 wordsAt the instance of Great Britain the Hamburg High Court has placed an embargo on thirty chests containing Transvaal bar gold, valued at £100,000, aboard ...
Article : 42 wordsHer Majesty has approved of the following Cabinet changes:— Lord Salisbury to retain his position as Premier, and to succeed Viscount Cross ...
Article : 124 wordsThe burghers of Pretoria made efforts to persuade General Botha and others to sur-render, but their negotiations failed. Ex-President Steyn refused to see the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe steamer Harlech Castle was to leave Capetown yesterday for Australia with 25 officers and 700 men of the Australian contingents on board. ...
Article : 26 wordsLieutenant-General Sir A. Hunter has been engaged in continuous skirmishes at Bothaville and in the Bloemhof district. The enemy, who are dressed in khaki, ...
Article : 67 wordsMajor H.R.H. Prince Christian Victor of Sehleswig-Holstein, on special service in South Africa, as an extra aide-de-camp to ...
Article : 111 wordsPrince Charles of Arenberg, brother of Duke Engelbert of Arenberg, and a lieutenant in the German Imperial Corps of South-west Africa, has been tried by a ...
Article : 70 wordsA magazine at Nankin was exploded by lightning. Many persons were killed and injured, and great destruction, was done to property. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe steamer Rakaia, from London for New Zealand, put ia to Hobart for coal on Sunday night Pilot Anderson West went on board from the pilot station, and had ...
Article : 59 wordsThe departure of Sir Redvers Buller from South Africa has induced the leaders of the still combatant burghers to report that he, with 7000 men, surrendered to the Boers, ...
Article : 48 wordsA Franco-Belgian convention has been signed, by which France and Belgium agree to mutually protect their joint interests in China. ...
Article : 22 wordsAn explosion occurred at the premises of Messrs. Tarrant and Co., druggists. New York, causing a panic among persons in the vicinity. ...
Article : 64 wordsAccording to the testimony given before the Concessions Committee, the Dynamite Monopoly paid £39,000 to the Volksraad and newspapers in three years as bribes, ...
Article : 42 wordsA British convoy, which, was being escorted by Cape Colony police, was attacked in dense bush near Hoopstad, In the northwest of the Orange River Colony. ...
Article : 128 wordsLord Beauchamp, Governor of New South Wales since July, 1899, took his departure by train for Brisbane, en route to New Guinea, and India, on Thursday evening. ...
Article : 705 wordsPirates looted a British passenger steamer plying between Macao and Hongkong, abandoning her near the Bogue forts, at the entrance of the Canton River. Four of the ...
Article : 37 wordsThe City of London Imperial Volunteers returned from South Africa on Monday. Her Majesty the Queen sent a message of sympathy and inquiry on the arrival of the ...
Article : 283 wordsThe allies at Pao-ting-fu have arrested the Governor of the city and ether officials for their complicity in the massacres by the Boxers. ...
Article : 45 wordsAn earthquake at Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, destroyed the British, legation. Mr. W. H. D. Haggard, the British Minister, had a wonderful escape. ...
Article : 63 wordsLord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand, states that his mission in H.M.S. Mildura was entirely successful He annexed the Cook and Savage Islands, not for New ...
Article : 95 wordsJimmy Governor was brought before sam Police Court charged with the murder of Ellen Josephine Kerz, at Breelong, on July 20. ...
Article : 226 wordsMr. Green and Mr. Griffith, and their families, Mr. Brawn, and Miss Grefrg, of the China Inland Mission, were rescued at Paoting-fu after suffering great privations for ...
Article : 39 wordsA force of 150 marauding Boers, after capturing a British outpost of 90 men near Geneva, held up the Capetown mail train. They ejected the passengers and ...
Article : 74 wordsSevere gales and floods have occurred in the North of England. In the valley of the Tyne a train was derailed in consequence, and the passengers ...
Article : 53 wordsIn giving further particulars of the origin of the agreement between. Great Britain and Germany on China questions, the Berlin "Post" states that Germany came ...
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Advertising : 262 wordsThe two young men who were arrested in connection with the shooting oil Constable Ward were brought before the Water Police Court on Friday morning. The ...
Article : 112 wordsThe French, Germans, and Italians sacked the respective quarters of Paoting-fu allotted to them. Looting in the British quarter was forbidden. ...
Article : 86 wordsSipido, who attempted to assassinate the Prince of Wales, has been arrested in Paris and extradited to Brussels, where he was recently acquitted on the charge of ...
Article : 115 wordsIn the New South Wales Parliament on Friday morning the Premier incidentally referred to the great service Lord Beauchamp had done for the colony in the ...
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Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 4 Nov 1900, Page 8
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