Sir Redvers Buller's Generals have made an important echelon movement, compelling the Boers, to subdivide their forces. ...
Article : 116 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3[?]. per ounco standard. ...
Article : 17 wordsMr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonios, is sending Mr. Basil Thomson to Tonga to explain the terms of the Anglo-German Convention, by ...
Article : 54 wordsThree batteries of artillery and 5000 soldiers have landed at Capetown since Friday. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe preparations for the despatch of the third contingent are commencing The second con tingent's camp at Wellington remnins infact A sum of £1000 has been remitted to London by ...
Article : 63 wordsAt a special meeting of the Adelatde local Board of Health this evening a series of resolutions was adopted aflirming the desirablences of obtaining a cliuioal diagnosis of the case of M'Cann, who is ...
Article : 133 wordsColonel Hector Maedonald, who recently arrived at Capetown, has been appeinted to succeed the late General Wanehope in the command of the Highland Brigade ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Government has requested the LieutenantGovernor to submit to the home authorities the offer of a third contingent of mounted infantry and bushmen, consisting of 150 men and 300 horses. It also ...
Article : 200 wordsThe deaths of the Duke of Teck, 63, Mr. John Ruskin, 81, art critic and author, and Mr. R. D. Blackmore, 75, novelist, were due to influenza. ...
Article : 38 wordsEarly this morning a fire was discovered In a produce store in [?]-place, city. occupied by Mr. P. Collins The alarm was given to George-street West station through a street ...
Article : 151 wordsThe main interest in matters military yesterday contred in the proceeding, at the Randwick camp, which recently have been of such a character that the best description of them would probably be given in ...
Article : 2,166 wordsThe barque Marie, which was seized by the British authorities in Delagoa Bay and taken to Durban, and which had n cargo of Australian flour reported to bo ...
Article : 46 wordsTho report of the Royal Commission on automatic railway couplings includes railway employees as men engaged in dangerous trades, and recommends the extension ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 804 wordsThere seems to be more than the relief of Ladysmith involved in the plans which Sir Redvers Buller is now carrying out. There eau be little doubt that the main portion of the Boer ...
Article : 1,648 wordsTho Premier has received a eablegram from the Premier of Canada to the following effect:—" We would sincerely hope that the project of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company will not ...
Article : 96 wordsTho British brigades are slowly, but surely, converging on the Boer centre. Major-General Hildyard's brigade threatens to act like " a pair of shears '' ...
Article : 64 wordsTho order given by Lord Roberts that the British troops must not loot in any way will perhaps bo considered "hard luck" when Mr. Atkins and the various volunteers come to think the matter over, ...
Article : 401 wordsCardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, has inhibited the saerament being administered to Professor St. George Mivart, owing to his heretical ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Rockhampton harbour-master received a tolegram from Seahill to-day stating that six foreigners arrived in Kepped Bay in a entter this morning, and represented that they were ...
Article : 215 wordsDuring the fighting on Sunday, when Lioutenant-General Sir Charles Warren's force engaged the Boers at Spion Kop, the Dublin Fusiliers carried a strong ...
Article : 123 wordsMr. Thomas Aitken, who is connected with the London and Edinburgh Shipping Company, has made a gift of £40,000 to the Edinburgh Infirmary. ...
Article : 33 wordsA movement is afoot among members of the Bushmen's Contingent to hold a race meeting in aid of the funds, and an application has been made to the A.J.C. for the use of the Randwick course, ...
Article : 552 wordsAt the wool sales to-day the competition was better. Merinos are hardening. £ Jan. 23. The following rates have been realised ...
Article : 54 wordsOur representative at Parramatta, in conversation with an officer of the Lancer regiment yesterday afternoon, found that there was some chafing at the indecision of the powers that be in regard to the ...
Article : 595 wordsIn the Assembly the Minister of Railways oharaeterised as excellent a suggestion in regard to the advisability of connecting the South Australian and Victorian railway systems by a line ...
Article : 519 wordsThe statement of accounts of the Union Bank of Australia sets forth the following particulars: — Deposits, £14,943,077; cash and investments, £5,834,916; bills ...
Article : 36 wordsMajor-General the Earl of Dundonald, continuing his advance from Acton Holmes, now holds the approach to Oliver's Hook pass. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. Alfred Deakin, Victoria's representative if the federal delegation, received a formal sendoff at the Town Hall this morning in the presence of 500 leading citizens. Mr. Holder, Premier ...
Article : 78 wordsFurther reinforcements have reached General Sir Redvers Buller. ...
Article : 13 wordsTho Boers are exhibiting less tenacity in the prosecution of the campaign. They are seldom using cannon, and are suspected of being short of ammunition. ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Holder, Premier of South Australia, arrived here this morning by the express and was met by the Minister of Railways, the Attorney-General, and the Postmaster-Geueral. He was entertained ...
Article : 104 wordsTwelve volunteers for the Bushmen's Contingent left yesterday amidst great enthusiasm. At a service in the cathedral on Sunday night Bishop Green gave an address. A collection of over £10 was ...
Article : 406 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts has [?] his personal bodyguard from the colonial contingents. ...
Article : 19 wordsTho Commissioner of Police to-day received a telegram announeing that an Afghan had shot another at Hergott this morning. The wounded man is now in au extremely critical condition, and ...
Article : 38 wordsSir, William MacCormac, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, and principal medical officer with the forces in South Africa, considers ...
Article : 94 wordsWo begin to-morrow the publication of a new story, " The Rebel," by Mr. H. B. Marriott Watson, the author of " The Adventurers. " &c. This is the gentleman whose story, " The Princess ...
Article : 377 wordsAt St John s, Ashfield, last Sunday night Canon Corlette, preaching on the subject of the war, mentioned it as a fact interesting to the congregation that the first of our New South Wales soldiers to give up ...
Article : 169 wordsMrs. David Storey has just received an acknowledgment from Colonel Taunton (A.Q.M.G.) thanking the Randwick ladies on behalf of Major-General French for their patriotism in sending a case ...
Article : 67 wordsA successful meeting of ladies was held yesterday afternoon at the residence at Mrs. Broomfield, Glentworth, Darling-street, Balmain East, for the purpose of making arrangements for the cellection of ...
Article : 199 wordsNews by the Culgoa states that in the Philippines Aguinuldo's wife and principal lieutenant were captured in a recent engagement. The American troops now number 60,000. It is ...
Article : 49 wordsColonel [?]'s force, which. is moving southwards to the relief of Mafeking, defeated a Boer patrol at Gaberenes. ...
Article : 27 wordsTrooper Phil. Brew (of the West Camden Halfsquadrou of the New South Wales Lancars), who went home with the contingent to Aldershot last year, writing to his mother from Modder River, ...
Article : 520 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts' has ordered that cash payments shall be made for all supplies required by the British army in South Africa. He has also given ...
Article : 62 wordsADELAIDE,—[?]: Titanin, barque, from [?]tius Departures:[?] s., for Java;[?], s., for Fremantle. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Maori King, with the Queensland contingent, left the Port Melbourne pier at 7. o'clock this morning, amidst ringing cheers from the people on the pier. The New South Wates and [?] ...
Article : 73 wordsA meeting of ladies interested in making comforts for the troops in South Africa was held in St. David's Hall, [?] Hills, yesterday afternoon. Mrs. G. Brown presided, and ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 24 Jan 1900, Page 7
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