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 ...
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Advertising : 222 wordsMr. Chamberlain notifies that he has received the offer of a third contingent, and has referred the matter to the War Office. Up to the present 325 men have presented ...
Article : 225 wordsThe London "Times" correspondent at Modder River says that the Boers' system of outposts is perfect, and provides in impenetrable screen to their movements, but the general opinion is that the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Vionna "Deutsche Zeitung" professes to disclose the Boer plan of campaign, deriving its information from the "Kriegs Correspondez" a newspaper circulated, I believe (says the "Standard's " ...
Article : 703 wordsThe late Sir Bartle Frere (says the London "Daily Mail"), who occupied Sir Alfred Milner's position from April, 1877, to August. 1880, and who was deserted by the Home Government, put on record in ...
Article : 434 wordsAt the Executive Conncil to-day LieutenantColonel James Stuart was appointed chief staff officer in the South Australian military forces, and to be acting commandant of the forces during the ...
Article : 148 wordsSir,—I was very much pleased to read the sensible matter-of-fact letter ot "Bushman" in your issue of to-day. In regard to officering the contingent, I do hope it ...
Article : 367 wordsA number of residents of Leichhardt intend, with the co-operation of the aldermen, erecting a marble memorial tablet in remembrance of Trooper Kilpatrick, who was killed in the engagement near ...
Article : 108 wordsThe steamer Ruahine arrived to-day with Cape files, from which the following is extracted:— CAPETOWN, Jan. 5. Letters from Kimberloy state that the food ...
Article : 1,151 wordsThe Acting Premier, while not giving any guarantee as to the action of the Government, suggests, in reference to the Bushmen's Corps, that the public should ind[?]cate. their willingness to assist the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe spanish Trausatlanite steamer Ciudad de Cadiz, which arrived at the Canaries on December l8, reports having been closely watched by a British cruiser during her voyage from Cadiz to the Canaries. ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Premier has informed the Imperial authorities of the formation of a third contingent, consisting of rough-riders, numbering 200 men. He has also cabled to Australia to ascertain if the troopship for ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. Milne has received the following letter from Judge Torbes regarding the late Sergeant-major Griffin:— "My dear Milne,—The Georgo Allman Grillin ...
Article : 339 wordsIn the Legislativr Assembly Mr. Shiels, replying to a question, said it was intended to enroll 100 of those volunteering for the Bushmen's Corps, increasing the number as contributions came in. He ...
Article : 492 wordsThe transport Moravian signalled "all well" at half past 9 a.m. to-day when passing Cape Nelson. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe health of the troops at Orango River is exceptionally good, and those who were wounded at Magersfontein are doing well. The wounded of the Scandinavian Corps have been brought to Orange ...
Article : 190 wordsTwo well-known athletes—A. K. and J. H. Parrott—have left for the seat of war, A. K. with the Mounted Infantry and his brother with the Medical Corps. Both are members of the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe mails by the steamer Himalaya were delivered in Sydney on Tuesday. She brings filas of English papers to December 22, from which the following items are extracted:— ...
Article : 1,232 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Lancet," writing from the base hospital at Wynberg (Cape Colony) on November 15, and discussing the coudition of the wounded, says:— The great majority of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 231 wordsThe transpart Surrey was sighted in the gulf to-night. ...
Article : 15 wordsA. Lisbon correspondent of the London "Standard" telegraph "—As regards the despatch of arms and ammunition to the Transvaal by the Delagoa Bay Railway, I learn that the Boers received l50,000 rifles ...
Article : 208 wordsYesterday a letter was received by Mr. A. L. Leslie, of Sydney, from Private B. K. Edgar, of the St. George's English Rifles (Now South Wales), in which some very interesting doings of the Australians are ...
Article : 1,013 wordsThe Government proposes to' send 10 trained nurses to South Africa, the War Office having intimated that they will gladly accept a corps of trained nurses from Victoria. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 400 wordsAt the City Cycling Club's International Meeting to-day J. A. Cochrane, of Victoria, won the Open Handicap, one mile. W. Martin, the American cyclist was second. The latter won the Five Miles ...
Article : 43 wordsA telegram from Coburg was printed in nearly all the Berlin papers' on Wednesday, December 20, to the effect that an Englishman named York had been arrested for enlisting German peasauts for the war in ...
Article : 249 wordsThe vice-commodore (Mr. H. W. Colley) presided at a meeting of the Sydney Diugy Club, at the club rooms, last evening. In response to a request from the Sydney Flying Squadron, it was decided to allow ...
Article : 150 wordsNotwithstanging the orders of the Vatican, its chief organ (says the Rome correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph") continues to publish articles decidedly anti-English in their tone. One evening ...
Article : 201 wordsThe grumbling amongst the Lancers at what they call the "marking time" of the military officials in connection with their offer to send to the front, free of expense, another half-squadron numbering as ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 283 wordsThe New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" cabled on December 2O:—"Some surprise is expressed here that the Government should iguore the enlisting for the Boers reported to be going ...
Article : 284 wordsThe latest information about the foreign contingents fighting on the side of the Boers against British soldiers (says the "Wynberg Timos," a journal published in the town which is serving as the ...
Article : 171 wordsA letter has been received from Quartermastersergeant George S. Lyons, who is on board the transport Southern Cross, now en route to South Africa. It is written whilst at sea, and it states that ...
Article : 114 wordsSir,—Reports from country rivers which have been stocked with trout show that these fish are getting a good hold in local waters. Speculation us to the best method of catching them is likely to be indulged in ...
Article : 329 wordsThe "New York Tribune" of December 16 writes:— General Buller will be embarrassed by the question of the seniority of lientenant-generals unless he sends to the rear those who fail in their ...
Article : 210 wordsA meeting of members of the Naval Artillery Volunteers who have signifled their intention of volunteering for active service in South Africa was held on Tuesday night at the drill shed, when over ...
Article : 119 wordsThe London papers, at the request of Priacess Louise, president of the Loudon branch of the Soldiers and Sailors' Families Association, have published the following statement with reference to the ...
Article : 308 wordsThe girls of the Clovelond-street School are just now busily engaged in making pyjama suits, caps, and cholera belts (the latter at the request of Colonel Roberts) for the use of our wounded soldiers in ...
Article : 184 wordsThe New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" cahled as follows on Documber 21:— ln response to a request Field-Marshall Lord Roberte has sent to the American and Canadian people, ...
Article : 273 wordsThe last lot of saddles contracted for the mounted contingent was completed on Monday The whole force was frilled together to-day for the first time in the saddle. Major Campbell has no misgivings for ...
Article : 117 wordsIn the course of an interesting letter to the London "Times" Mr. Robert Wallace, Professor of Agriculture and Rural Economy in the University of Edinburgh, who, it will be remembered, made a ...
Article : 554 wordsThe field telegraphists with General Buller carry their cables in specially-constructed carts, each containing if necessary 10 miles of cable wound on drums, so that in open country they can lay it at a ...
Article : 565 wordsThe members of the Fotzroy Dock Ambuiance Corps intend making an effort on behalf of the Patriotic Fund. Each your the members of the corps give a free concert, at which the certificates and ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 25 Jan 1900, Page 8
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