The camp at Randwick continues to attract many visitors, though just at present the work being done is merely of a routine nature. Early next week the units comprising the contingent will be completed, ...
Article : 716 wordsThe map which we publish to-day will enable the reader to follow the positions occupied by the British in Cape Colony and west of the Orange Free State. Queenstown was originally the headquarters of Sir William Gatacre. He has since transferred them to Patter's Kraal, where he has 5000 men. His men also hold Sterkstroom and Cypergat, and portion of the branch line running from Sterkstroom Junction to Indwe coalmines, at which terminus Boers are located. The railway from Rosmead Junction to Stornberg Junction in 70 miles in length. The British bold nearly the whole line. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 232 wordsDuring the debate on the Address in Reply in the House of Commons all references to Australian federation were greeted with cheers. ...
Article : 47 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller holds command of all the drifts on the Tugela River. ...
Article : 52 wordsThree squadrons of Lord Kitchener's Light Horse are ready for the front. Field-Marshal Lord Roberts is actively engaged in organising the forces. In ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. F. Darby, a Leichhardt boy, who is on the Southern Cross transport, writes as follows:— "Leaving Watson's Bay we had a pretty rough time, especially at night, most of us being up looking ...
Article : 174 wordsIt is understood here that Sir John Forrest contemplates asking the Imperial Government to make a request to the Australian Governments to consent to an alteration in the Commonwealth ...
Article : 100 wordsMajor-General Lord Dundonald's troops at the Tugela River have reconnoitred as far as Honger's Poort without being molested by the enemy. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Archbishop has addressed the following letter to the Anglican clergy of the diocese:—"You may have observed that the archbishops and bishops in England have fixed February 11 ...
Article : 271 wordsMr. Kingston, as expected, has accepted the position of delegate from South Australia to watch the passage of the Commonwealth Bill through the home Parliament. He sails by the Orizaba nex[?] ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. Cecil Rhodes's private secretary, Mr. Jourdaan, has been captured by the Boers whilst carrying verbal messages from Kimberley. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe number of men missing in connection with the Spion Kop reverse is now estimated at 215, chiefly from the Lancashire Fusiliers. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe girl Sylvia Gemeli, who was detained in a Turkish officer's harem, has been restored to her father in response to the demands of the Italian Government. ...
Article : 38 wordsA corporal of irregulars has been shot by the British for shaking hands with the enemy, and for keeping up an acquaintance with the guards at the ...
Article : 45 wordsForeign Powers have entered into large contracts for the supply of Welsh steam coal. Owing to the fulfilling of these contracts the "Times" anticipates that ...
Article : 68 wordsThe "Times" correspondent states that the Boers in the Sterkstroom district are distributing pamphlets printed in the Basuto language inciting the natives to ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Right Rev. the Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly (Rev. W. M. Dill Macky) has issued the following circular to all ministers of the Presbyterian Church appointing Sabbath, February 11, ...
Article : 228 wordsThe speech reported by the "Daily Mail" correspondent at Capetown to have been made by General Sir Redvers Buller on Monday last to Sir Charles Warren's ...
Article : 91 wordsIn connection with the recent shooting of ex-Governor Goebel, a Democratic Senator, in Kentucky, it is stated that the authorities made a mistake in arresting a ...
Article : 54 wordsAt a meeting of the Capetown branch of the Afrikander Bund Mr. J. H. Hofmeyer, who presided, condemned the action of Great Britain towards the Cape in ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Cape Mounted Police have captured 1000 head of cattle belonging to the rebel Dutch, in the Dordrecht district, northern Cape Colony. ...
Article : 38 wordsA novel feature will be introduced at the 4 o'clock adjournment to-day. Instead of the usual 15 minutes the players will retire for half an hour, and during that time a detachment of the Bushmen's ...
Article : 83 wordsTrooper J. J. Louis, one of the trio of members of the Braidwood troop of the First Australian Horse, who were taken to the Cape in the Langton Grange transport, returned to Sydney on Monday by the ...
Article : 317 wordsLieutenant-Colonol H. Finn, of the 21st Lancers, the new Commandant of the Queensland defence forces, sails from London by the R.M.S. Austral. ...
Article : 35 wordsA Hanoverian officer on the staff of M. Villebois-Marcuil, the French strategist, now at Colesberg, declares that 10,000 soldiers trained in European ...
Article : 50 wordsAt a memorial service held for French soldiers in the cathedral at Nimes Father Valney, the preacher, referred to the humiliation of the French at Fashoda, ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Boers have commandeered 300 British residents at Barkly East, in northern Cape Colony. ...
Article : 21 wordsAbout 120 members of the Bushmen's Contingent, as well as a squad of the Naval Artillery Volunteers, will attend the civic concert to be held this evening at the Town Hall in aid of the Bushmen's Fund. ...
Article : 609 wordsThe steamer Gulf of Aneud has been awarded £5000 damages for rescuing the steamer Darius, which broke down in midocean and was towed to Capetown. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe farmers at Thebus, near Steynsburg (due west of Stormberg) are joining the Colonial forces. Lieutenant-General Kelly-Kenny has ...
Article : 40 wordsOwing to the pressure brought to bear by the British Government the Portuguese are enforcing more stringent regulations regarding the admission of foreigners to ...
Article : 38 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3[?]d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe sum of 3¾ millions is to be expended in relief works in aid of the sufferers from the famine in India. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Boers are constructing a fort at Stormberg, to the northward of Molteno, in Cape Colony. ...
Article : 23 wordsAt a meeting of the local committee of the Reform League Messrs. Carr and Catling were appointed delegates to attend the conference at Kalgoorlie next Wednesday. ...
Article : 32 wordsOne of the New South Wales troopers, now at the Modder River, writes, in the course of a letter just received by a friend of his in Sydney, about the grouping of the Australian forces under Colonel ...
Article : 206 wordsOfficers of the Volunteer regiments are profoundly disgusted with the War Office on account of the obstacles placed in the way of the employment of volunteers at ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is stated that the arrangement under which Russia has guaranteed the Persian loan has tied the hands of Persia for 75 years. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 574 wordsIn response to inquiries Colonel Hoad, commanding the Colonial troops at Ensliu, has offered to transform his five companies into mounted troops. The offer ...
Article : 41 wordsThe employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company have each contributed half a day's pay to the War Relief Fund. The total thus given amounts to 20,000 ...
Article : 46 wordsFrom July 1, 1899, to January 31 the revenue paid into the Treasury was £4,168,618, being £60,642 more than was paid into the Treasury during the corresponding period of the previous ...
Article : 339 wordsThe British Government has ordered 100,000 khaki-coloured woollen suits for the troops in South Africa. Several motor cycles have also been ordered. ...
Article : 30 wordsColonel W. D. C. Williams, of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps, has been appointed principal medical officer of the Australian troops in South Africa. ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. George Wyndham, Under-Secretary for War, has made an official statement in regard to the British forces serving or about to serve in South Africa. In the middle of February there ...
Article : 1,339 wordsThe following verses by the Poet Laureate are from the London "Daily Telegraph," December 23:— I. Now let the cry, "To Arms!" To Arms!" ...
Article : 327 wordsTrooper J. Hurford, one of the members of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles in South Africa, is seriously ill. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe British troops, with a force of artillery, have occupied without opposition Prieska, a position on the left bank of the Orange River, 145 miles to the south-west ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Mansion House War Fund, opened by the Lord Mayor of London (Alderman Alfred James Newton), amounts to £661,300. ...
Article : 27 wordsA meeting of residents of Newcastle favourable to the formation of a corps of light horse was held in the council chambers to-night to make preliminary arrangements with a view to securing the ...
Article : 590 wordsOne thousand shells have been fired into Kimberley by the enemy in three days. The population is living largely underground. ...
Article : 61 wordsIn replying to a question in the House of Commons last night Mr. George Wyndham, Under-Secretary for War, stated that by the middle of February ...
Article : 310 wordsMafeking reports all well. Colonel Baden-Powell considers his position safe, and urges that his garrison be left unrelieved, lest the besiegers should become ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 3 Feb 1900, Page 9
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