The order of the day at Randwick is work! work!! work!!! and judging from the general demeanour of the Bushmen's Contingent, and the al[?]crity with which they carry out every order, they ...
Article : 2,519 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller has cabled the following intelligence to the War Office:— "January 23. Evening.— ...
Article : 226 wordsThe administration of the Caroline Islands, the Polew Archipelago, and the Marianne Islands, which were purchased by Germany from Spain, has been ...
Article : 52 wordsOwing to the advance of LieutenantGeneral Sir Charles Warren being checked by the steep hills towards Spion Kop the Boors have been enabled to bring ...
Article : 58 wordsThe conference of Premiers culled to discuss matters of intercolonial importance was commenced at the Colonial Secretary's Department yesterday afternoon Before the proceedings began the visitors ...
Article : 1,547 wordsPrivate St. John, a champion boxer, serving with the First Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, killed 11 Boers at Belmont, on November 23, before he was ...
Article : 35 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Eager, of the Royal Irish Rifles, who was wounded in the leg in the attack on Stormberg, when General Gatacre met with a serious reverse, has ...
Article : 37 wordsThe body of the late Mr. John Ruskin is lying in State in Coniston Church, Lancashire. ...
Article : 24 wordsDuring the operations of Major-General Lyttelton's brigade facing Potgieter's Drift, a shell hit a balloon which closed automatically. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. R. S. Sievers raised a company in Bedfordshire to serve with the Imperial Yeomanry. The company was disbanded owing to War Office difficulties. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe French newspapers insist on the necessity of settling the fate of the New Hebrides on the pretext of the existence of anarchy. They also allege that ...
Article : 45 wordsDuring a reconnaissance of Lord Methuon's force on Tuesday a lyddite shell exploded a Boer powder magazine and silenced a big gun. ...
Article : 28 wordsTwo sons of Mr. David Tweedie, of Adelaide, have joined the Imperial Yeomanry. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe British have an immense commissariat department at the Wagon Ford, on the north of the Tugela River. ...
Article : 27 wordsTwelve of the Assumptionist Fathers and Father Bartley, director of the newspaper "St. Croix," are being presecuted at Paris for belonging to ...
Article : 31 wordsThe war excitement in India is eclipsing that produced by the famine. Five hundred men have volunteered for service in South Africa with Lumsden's Mounted ...
Article : 54 wordsA 28-pounder gun has been constructed at Kimberley, and has been christened Long Cecil. It has a range of 8000 yards. ...
Article : 30 wordsSir Julian Salomons, Agent-General for New South Wales, for personal and private reasons, resigns his post in April. He sails for Sydney early in May. ...
Article : 92 wordsAn injunction has been granted by the Supreme Court at Philadelphia, at the instance of a British subject, for the detention of the American steamer ...
Article : 54 wordsFrightful heat is being experienced at the Tugela River by the British troops. ...
Article : 21 wordsCommandant Viljoeu, who is reported as being injured by the bursting of a lyddite shell, is a member of a well-known family in South Africa. Indead the very drift that crosses the Vaal from the ...
Article : 136 wordsWholesale robberies are taking place at Johannesberg. The cattle are grazing in the streets of the city. ...
Article : 23 wordsDr. Gregory, a Victorian and professor of geology, is a passenger by the R.M.S. Britannia for Melbourne. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Agent-General's war cable to the Government states in reference to General Buller's operations that nothing decisive has yet been achieved. General Warren, with Generals Clery, Hart, ...
Article : 109 wordsSpeaking at Chatham last night Lord Rosebery said that the present war in South Africa was in some respects the most formidable that Great Britain had ...
Article : 188 wordsAt the mines which are being worked by the Transvaal Government the rich ore only is being crushed. Mr. Butch, a solicitor, has induced ...
Article : 46 wordsTrooper Charles Webster, with the New South Wales Lancers at the front, thus writes to his sister (Miss Josephine Webster, of Ballina) from Modder River, under date November 30:— ...
Article : 1,245 wordsMiss Eva Hooper, organiser for Kindergarten work in Victoria, is a passenger by the R.M.S. Australia for Melbourne. ...
Article : 24 wordsCaptain W. A. Burkitt, formerly master of the s.s. Jumna (British-India liner), committed suicide on the R.M.S Golconda at Malta. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. A. A. Dangar, of Now South Wales, has given 1000 guineas to the Bushmen's Fund. ...
Article : 22 wordsCommandants Pretorius, Botha, and Cronje (a relative of the Boer commandant on the western frontier) are engaged in the fighting. President Steyn ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 wordsCaptain Alfred T. Mahan, of the United States Navy, warns the Americans that the problems of the future render the necessity of a good understanding with ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Boers admit that their casualties in the recent fighting were heavier than at the battle of Colenso. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Australian thoroughbred stock,— Australian Star, by The Australian Peer from Colours; two-year-old gelding Clach na Cuddin, by Captain Webb; a ...
Article : 66 wordsCommandant Viljoen, of the Boar forces, was rendered temporarily insensible from the effect of the bursting of a lyddite shell during the attack made by ...
Article : 43 wordsThe troopship Surrey, with the detachment of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry aboard, arrived at the Semaphore late this evening. Her arrival was eagerly anticipated, and quits a crowd ...
Article : 261 wordsMr. Montague White, the ConsulGeneral in London for the South African Republic, has had an interview with Mr. A. Hay, the United States Consul at ...
Article : 57 wordsThe people of Pietermaritzburg and Durban are organising for the raising of supplies of comforts for the beleaguered garrison of Ladysmith when the relief is ...
Article : 32 wordsThe death is announced of Professor David Edward Hughes, F.R.S., in his 69th year. Professor Hughes was the inventor of the ...
Article : 56 wordsSir Charles Warren is on the same ground which he occupied after successfully turning the right wing of the enemy located near Trichard's Drift. The Boers are now in force at two places ...
Article : 1,721 wordsTwo additional regiments of South African Light Horse are being raised in Capetown. One regiment will be named after Field-Marshal Lord Roberts ...
Article : 43 wordsAt the auction sales of Australasian tallow to-day 1950 casks were offered and 775 sold. Fine mutton realised 29s 9d; medium mutton, 28s; fine beef, 28s 3d; ...
Article : 39 wordsThe late Mr. John Ruskin's relatives have declined to allow his romains to be interred in Westminster Abbey. The body will be interred at Coniston Church, ...
Article : 36 wordsTo the one who ia blessed with ordinary observance, the idea of the people of these colonies emigrating to South africa after "the war" must be a matter ot extreme regret, since there are a great ...
Article : 1,125 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3½d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 15 wordsA largely attended meeting of the wood and coal merchants of Sydney and suburbs was held at the Engineers' Arms Hotel, Hay-street, last night, for the purpose of deciding what notion should be taken ...
Article : 323 wordsThe subscriptions to the War Funds are so liberal that the widow of every soldier who dies during the war ia South Africa will receive a pension of 10s a ...
Article : 38 wordsLond Brassey arrived to-day in the Sunbeam at Rottnest, where his Excolloney and Lady Brassey and purty are the guests of the Governar. Lord Brassey, on being interviewed, said as regards ...
Article : 89 wordsA bottle has been found on the beach near Dongarra, the contents of which indicate that a wreck has occurred, but the locality or the name of the vessel is not clear. It was first thought that the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe hospital ship Maine, fitted out by American ladies, has arrived at Capetown from London. She proceeds to Durban. ...
Article : 27 wordsA five-roomed weather-board cottage, situated in La Perouse-road, Rand wick, occupied by Mr. John smith, cab proprietor, was totally destroyed by fire thortly after 2 o'clock this morning. The outbreak ...
Article : 102 wordsAt a late hour to-night a fire broke out at the goods sheds attached to the Williamstown Pier railway station. The sheds, two in number, were each 100ft. by 80ft., and contained wool and fodder, ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Boers have crossed Portuguese territory and entered Rhodesia. A battery of Portuguese artillery has been sent to the frontier in order to ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 25 Jan 1900, Page 7
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