Prior to the retirement of the British forces under General sir Redvers Buller on Wednesday evening across the Tugela, Major-General the Hon. N. G. Lyttleton ...
Article : 188 wordsReassuring heliographic messages have been received from Ladysmith stating that the garrison is able to hold out for weeks. ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. J. E. Redmond, the chairman of the Nationalist section of the Irish party in the House of Commons, has issued a manifesto appealing for funds to conduct ...
Article : 71 wordsLieutenant F. G. Tait, of the Black Watch Regiment, a noted golfer, was killed in action at Koodoosberg. it is estimated that the Boers lost 100 ...
Article : 37 wordsThe bill providing for an increase in the strength of the German Navy has been referred to the Budget Committee ofthe Reichstag. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe British were in the act of siozing a Vickers-Maxim gun at Vaal Krantz when a team of horses from Commander Viljoen's troops effected a splendid rescue ...
Article : 50 wordsThe four squadrons comprising the Bushmen's Contingent are nearly complete, and already the names of A squadron have been made available for publication. Lieutenant-Colonel Airey is crowding ...
Article : 1,757 wordsThe Boors have been bombarding Kimberley with a six-inch gun since the 7th instant. The assailants are increasing in ...
Article : 51 wordsThe " Daily Mail's " correspondent telegraphs further particulars of the reconnaissance near Colesberg on Friday, in which 50 Tasmanian and Victorian ...
Article : 157 wordsAt a Continental held on the Exhibition Oval on Saturday night in and of the Bushmen's Fund 7000 people attended, and it is estimated that over £300 will be netted. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe British Government has purchased 5000 horses in Hungary. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe enrolment of the Bushmen's Corps commences to-night. The committee of bush experts appointed consists of Mr. Alexander Forrest, Mr. Everard Darlot, and Mr. A. Gillam. Captain Vials ...
Article : 103 wordsRoland Molineux, the son of General Molineux, of the United States Army, has again been tried in New York on a charge of attempting to poison, and was convicted ...
Article : 51 wordsSir Alfred Milner's proclamation stating that the British Government would refuse to recognise the forfeture of the property of the loyalists in the Transvaal after it ...
Article : 55 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts, the Commander-in-Chief, has been accorded an enthusiastic reception by the troops at Modder River. ...
Article : 28 wordsNothing definite has yet been decided in regard to the demonstration on the occasion of the departure of the Bushmen's Contingent on the 7th proximo. It is unlikely that there will be any military display. ...
Article : 232 wordsAt the Monte Carlo pigeon shooting competitions on Saturday last the Victorian sportsman, Mr. Donald M'Intosh, won the Myosotis Stakes of £80, killing all his ...
Article : 37 wordsLady Lamington has received advices from the front acknowledging the receipt of a sufficiency of comforts for the Queensland troops. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe disloyal Dutch who were taken prisoners at the recent engagement at Sunnyside, in which Canadian, Queensland, and British troops took part under ...
Article : 60 wordsBar silver is quoted at 2s 3 7-16d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 15 wordsFrance is feverishly completing and equipping new quick-firing guns. The factories are working day and night. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Boer forces have occupied a hill on Bray's farm, south of the Tugela, and within an hour's ride of Chieveley. The occupation of this position, ...
Article : 65 wordsFifty of the New South Wales mounted infantry, under Lieutenant W. Holmes and Lieutenant M. W. Logan, assisted a detachment of the Inniskilling Dragoons ...
Article : 65 wordsAn inquest was commenced to-day before Mr. J. A. Creagh, coroner, concerning the death of Cyrus M'Farlane, which took place at the north end of the city on Saturday. ...
Article : 479 wordsLord Roberts has sent a second telegram to Presidents Kruger and Steyn complaining of the Boers' wanton destruction of property in Natal. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Indian Famine Fund, inaugurated by the Lord Mayor of London (Alderman A. J. Nowton) amounts to £21,000. ...
Article : 24 wordsWhen men were being selected this afternoon for the Bushmen's Corps they were let into the Exhibition Building in batches of 12. The applicants were so eager to interview the selectors that they almost ...
Article : 48 wordsProfessor Foster, a Liberal Unionist, has been elected by a large majority as member of the House of Commons for the London University, replacing Sir John ...
Article : 42 wordsBy the end of February the British forces at the front in South Africa will number 194,000 men, including 20,000 militia. ...
Article : 38 wordsA balloon reconnaissance has revealed to General Sir Redvers Buller a dozen cunningly-masked guns at Doorn Kloof, commanding the Ladysmith road. It was the ...
Article : 53 wordsOn Monday Lancers were given a hard day's work in the Parramatta Park, going through various evolutions and exercises, and in the afternoon MajorGeneral French paid a visit of inspection. He was ...
Article : 551 wordsTwenty Western Australian troops, under the command of Captain H. G. Moor, discovered the Boers in the [?]et of placing a gun near Slingersfontein, eight ...
Article : 175 wordsEarly this morning a fire occurred on premises occupied by a market gardener named Will Why Ray, in M'Lelland-street, Willoughby. The M.F.B., assisted by the Chatswood Volunteers, ...
Article : 79 wordsPresident Kruger has seized Robinson's Bank at Johannesburg and transferred the customers accounts to the National Bank of the South African Republic. ...
Article : 28 wordsFurther details of the reconnaissance on Friday by 50 Australian and Tasmanian troops under the command of Captain C. St. Clair Cameron, commanding the ...
Article : 182 wordsIt is understood that pressure is being brought to bear upon Mr. Higgins, M.L.A., to withdraw his no-confidence motion. It has been represented to him that the motion will not receive the united ...
Article : 62 wordsFive thousand additional troops embarked yesterday for South Africa, including the first troop of Lord Loch's Contingent of Veterans. ...
Article : 29 wordsSir Edward Clarke, Q.C., M.P. for Plymouth, having been censured by his constituents for his attitudo with regard to the Boer war, as indicated by his recent ...
Article : 84 wordsThe officer in charge at Coen wired to the Post and Telegraph Department at Brisbane to-day, with reference to a new gold find near there, that there is now a population of 70 with about ...
Article : 126 wordsThe arrival of the mail steamers Himalaya and Konigi[?] Luise to-day had considerable interest, owing to there having been a supposed trial of speed on the run between Sydney and Melbourne. The steamers ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Capetown correspondent of the "Times " says that the more colonial troops sent to South Africa the better. The continual stream of colonials, he ...
Article : 51 wordsThe various non-Anglican Evangelical Churches are inaugurating a fund so that their army chaplain with the Bush Contingent, Rev. James Green, may be well equipped to carry on his work amongst the ...
Article : 114 wordsTwo more deaths in the Walke family, the victims of the Jondaryan poisoning mystery, occurred in the hospital to-day. The rest of the family are in the same condition, but there is not ...
Article : 154 wordsThe " Spectator " proposes the erection in the heart of London of a conspicuous monument to the colonies, with the view of commemorating the devotedness of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 wordsIt has been ascertained that the Boers are not surrounded near Colesberg, as was reported to be the case. They hold the whole of the northern semi-circle ...
Article : 59 wordsThe New South Wales "A" Battery started from Capetown for' the front on Sunday. The Mayor of Capetown attended to witness the departure. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Surry Hills working party organised for the purpose of making comforts for the sick and wounded soldiers in South Africa met in St. David's Hall on Thursday, February S, Mrs. G. Brown, ...
Article : 169 wordsThe supplementary information which has been received in regard to the abandonment of Va[?]l Krantz by the British abows that a tactical manoœuvre, caused by a fuller knowledge of the ...
Article : 1,277 wordsIn the yuchting accident which occurred on Saturday at Wellington four youths were drowned, namely, Henry Thane, aged 14, John Thane, 8, Herbert Whittem, 29, and Montague Whittem, ...
Article : 72 wordsLydditehas silenced the Vickers-Maxim gun which was annoying the British and Colonial troops near Cole's Kop, in the viciuity of Colesberg. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 99 wordsOur cables this morning convey the melancholy news of the doath of Mr. W. J. Lambie, the war correspondent of the Molbourne ' Agu." It will be remembered that in ...
Article : 396 wordsMajor-General E. T. H. Hutton, C.B., A.D.C., commanding the [?]ilitia of the Dominion of Canada, and formerly commanding the New South Wales forces, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 13 Feb 1900, Page 7
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