The army under command of General Hunter left Bethlehem and came down here with a view of capturing the " Free Staters " under De Wet. It must be explained that by occupying all the ...
Article : 3,143 wordsGeneral Louis Botha, the Boer Commander-in-Chief, with several thousand men and with four big guns, is holding a strong position overlooking Lydenburg. ...
Article : 175 wordsThe besiegers of Ladybrand have closed their cannonade, and are preparing to move. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Circular of Count Lamsdorf, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, stating that Russia at the outset of the Chinese crisis laid down the principles ...
Article : 185 wordsShortly after the Legislative Council me[?] yesterday the Sydney Corporation (Amending) Bill was read the third time, and Mr.Cox then moved the adjournment ...
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Article : 90 wordsMuch of the news appearing in the latest files per the Kasuga Maru, which arrived from China ports to-day, has already been published by cables, the Canton correspondent of the " Chiua Mail" ...
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Article : 31 wordsGeneral Louis Botha, the Boer Commander-in-Chief, is making a fierce stand near Lydenburg. He holds a lofty headland enclosing a ...
Article : 38 wordsThe steamer Whakatane, from the Cape, which arrived to-day, brought files of Capetown papers to August 14, containing the following items of war news:— ...
Article : 563 wordsThere is a growing feeling inthe public mind that the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia should be marked by a ceremony worthy of the occasion, and it has been urged upon the ...
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Article : 49 wordsIt is officially announced that the total amount of the indemnity to be paid by Great Britain for the seizure, [?]me months ago, of the steamers Bundesrath, Herzog, ...
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Article : 29 wordsAn Imperial Edict, which is attributed to the Emperor Kwang Hsu, under date of August 19, orders Li Hung Chang to open negotiations with the Powers for ...
Article : 66 wordsNatal delegates now visiting England are claiming Durban or Maritzburg as the seat of the Confederate Parliament. ...
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Article : 69 wordsTen Boers have surrendered at Eerste Fabrickon. with 5000 sheep, 800 head of cattle. 50 horses and several waggons and carts. ...
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Article : 149 wordsA detachment of Boers has derailed a train on the Protoria-Pietersburg line. Some of the West Riding Regiment in the train were injured. ...
Article : 30 wordsA hippopotamus has been purchased at Hamburg for the Adelaide Zoological Gardens. The animal will be shipped for Australia in a fortnight. ...
Article : 45 wordsAt the instance of the Austrian Legation at Peking Chung-li, a member of the Tsung-li-Yamen, has been arrested for having protected rebels. ...
Article : 108 wordsSuch a flying column as we are now with, consisting as it does purely of mounted infantry, who have over and over again proved themselves just the men wanted for a campaign of this sort, is not allowed ...
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Article : 329 wordsLord Wolseley is engaged ia a drastic inspection of the British coast defences,' with a view to the preparation of an elaborate report. ...
Article : 30 wordsFour commandoes, under Commandants Grobelaar, Fouries, Lemmer, and Sasebrook, are besieging Ladybrand. The Boers have commandeered all the ...
Article : 120 wordsAn outbreak of yellow fever at Dakar, a seaport in the French colony of Senegambia, has reduced a regiment of marines from 1800 to 368 men. ...
Article : 31 wordsThere would seem to be but one opinion now as to the effect which the Russian proposal to withdraw the forces from Peking must have upon affairs. The concert of the Powers will be broken up, and ...
Article : 856 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 4 11-16d per ounce standard, a rise of 3-16d since yesterday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 wordsAfter the conference with the Coal-owners' Association at Ipswich the miners' delegates reported the lesult to a largely attended meeting of minersAfter a long discussion it was moved,— the ...
Article : 153 wordsA bore is being put down from the surface of the True Dluo lease ot tho Brown Hill Company to prospect the property at a death. The nir-compressor and winding plant for ...
Article : 347 wordsAdvices from Hamburg state that Great Britain will pay an indemnity of£87,500 for the soizure some months ago of the steamers Bundesrath, General, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 291 wordsTho Colonial Secretary, in/ the Logislative Assembly yesterday, in answer to Mr.Moore, Bald that if he thought the offer of any largor reward for the uppreheusion of the Breelong blacks would have the ...
Article : 165 wordsThe blacks bailed up and had dinner with a fencer named Woodley about 12 miles from Nundle to-day A search party of local civilians arrived on the scene, and tie fugitives lumped up und fired two shots at ...
Article : 174 wordsLawrence Killian, a railway employee residing at Townsville, was pronounced plague-stricken to-day. The cale ia a mild one. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 185 wordsAnother case of plague has been discovered at Govan, a suburb of Glasgow. There are now 13 cases of plague in the Glasgow Hospital. ...
Article : 37 wordsA collision, which resulted in two men being injured, occurred yesterdsy afternoon in Georgestreat West between a steam tram and an omnibus It appears that the 'bus was going down the hill near ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Government to-day introduced a bill into the Hours of Representatives to make provision for the men or families of the men who went to South Afrion with the New Zealand oonfirurenti sat mat ...
Article : 45 wordsTroopers A. C Zietscb and A.L.M'Lean, of the Second Western Australian Contingent, were passengers by the steamer Wollowra, which sailed to-day for the Eastern colonies The soldiers were invalided ...
Article : 146 wordsStanley Bowley, the New South Wales amateur athelete, is returning to Australia by the Oceana. The weekly lecture of the International ...
Article : 57 wordsOu Tuesday Mr.Thomas Prutt, financial agent of the New South Wales Auxiliary of the London Mrsionary Society, forwarded a cable to the representative of the London Missionary booiety in Shanghai, ...
Article : 151 wordsThe steamet Whakatane from the Cape, arrived this afternoon. Among her passengers are the following invalided New Zeulauriers:—Toopers Belf, Currie, Goulder, Kidney, Corporal M'Dowal, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 6 Sep 1900, Page 5
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