There is doubt whether the Bushmen's Contingent will embark on Saturday next or the following Wednesday. It would be quite possible for the transports to leave on Saturday, but to do so would ...
Article : 1,362 wordsThe steamer Persie, winch arrived yesterday, brings mails from Capetown. Writiug from Slingersfontein on January 20 Mr.A.B. Patersou,our special war correspondent, ...
Article : 440 wordsThe order which was lately issued by the Admiralty for the cruise of the British Channel Squadron has been varied. The squadron will remain in British waters ...
Article : 56 wordsThe movement planned by FieldMarshal Lord Roberts, leading to the relief of Kimberley, and causing the Boers to retreat from their strongholds ...
Article : 405 wordsAfter the capture of Cingolo Hill on Sunday General Buller, after a hard fight, drove the Boers from a strong position at Monte Cristo, and across the Tugela River. ...
Article : 72 wordsThere is a considerable movement of Boers northward of Ladysmith, supposed to be the result of Lord Roberta's invasion of the Orange Free State. ...
Article : 32 wordsLadysmith reports that there are indications that the Boers are abandoning their laagers in the vicinity of the town, ...
Article : 28 wordsBoland Molineux, son of General Molineux, of the United States Army, who was recently sentenced to death in New York for poisoning Mrs. K. G. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Boers abandoned Magersfontein in a panic. Cooked dinners were fonnd untouched and great quantities of stores were captured. ...
Article : 47 wordsGeneral Buller is threatening the Boer position at Inhlawe Mouut, east of Colenso, where the enemy is very strongly entrenched. ...
Article : 29 wordsOwing to their oxen being overworked, the mobility of the Boera has vanished, ...
Article : 21 wordsPresident M'Kinley, of the United States, believing the war in the Philippines to be ended, will shortly withdraw half the troops oporating there. A civil ...
Article : 54 wordsA telegram which Commandant Cronje intended to have sent to the Boer headquarters was found in an abandoned laager, confessing that he was completely ...
Article : 42 wordsLieutenant-General Kelly Kenny has captured 150 waggons. The loot inoludes thousands of stock. Biscuit boxes were found filled with ...
Article : 35 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller has captured the Boer position at Hussar Hill south of Inhlawe Mount, and has established his headquarters there. He also ...
Article : 72 wordsThe British casualties in the relief of Kimberley numbered 50. The position was marvellously fortified and rendered impregnable. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe British Guards are encamped on the position at Magersfontein recently occupied by Commandant Cronje. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, M.A. (ex-President of the English Wesleyan Conference and superintendent of the West London Mission), will visit ...
Article : 42 wordsThe " Spectator " urges the "permanent inclusion in the British army of 20,000 Canadian troops, 10,000 Australians, and a foreign legion of ...
Article : 42 wordsThe residents of Jacobsdal were amazed that the British troops, instead of looting tho town as they expected, distributed army stores to the inhabitants. ...
Article : 34 wordsCommandant Delarey disobeyed an order from the Boer headquarters to retreat from Northern Cape Colony, and attacked Jacobsdal on the 15th instant, ...
Article : 56 wordsOur New Yark correspondent, writing on January 20 respecting the State of public feeling in the United States towards England in her struggle with the Transvaal and Orange Free ...
Article : 888 wordsThe personalty of the late Dulce of Westminster has been sworn at £594,229. ...
Article : 22 wordsIt is reported from London that the colonials made a brilliant bayonet charge at Dordrecht on Friday night, and that the enemy considered that discretion was the better part of valour, and ran ...
Article : 227 wordsLord Roberts has issued a proclamation stating that President Steyn, and not the burghers of the Orange Free State, will be held responsible for the invasion, and ...
Article : 49 wordsThe movement by which Lord Roberts invaded the Orange Free State and brought about the relief of Kimberley is pronounced in England to be " unsurpassed." In very trying climatic ...
Article : 1,420 wordsfhe death is announced of Mr. Joseph Cowen, the well-known coal-owner of Neweastle-on-Tyne, and proprietor of the Newcastle " Chronicle," at the age of 69, ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Queen has congratulated Field Marshal Lord Roberts upon the success which has attended the movements of the British forces. Her Majesty also ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Cecil Rhodes is paying the expeuses of the conveyance of women and children from Kimberley to the seaside. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Landa Department is receiving a cumber of applications for sngar lands, but there is very little that can be thrown open to selection. Soon, however, some 28 portions in the parish of ...
Article : 201 wordsAfter all it has been decided that a tenner shall not occupy the position of honour of accompanying the Bush Contingent that will probably sail from Sidney on Saturday next. Mr. F. Montague ...
Article : 383 wordsThe British Government has, woing To his disloyalty, omitted the name of the Lord Mayor of Dublin from the list of other Mayors apppointed as Assize Court ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Governor yesterday cabled to Lord Roberts conveying the hearty congratulations of the people of New Zealand on the selief of Kimberley. Today his Excelleney received the following ...
Article : 150 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent, who was present at the fighting which look place at the Riet River between a large Boer force from Rensburg, with 10 ...
Article : 72 wordsThe fighting at Rensburg on Monday last was fierce and determined. Four thousand Boers attacked a hill defended by troops of the Worcester Regiment, ...
Article : 98 wordsLord Gormanston was still too unwell to attend the Executive meeting. Mr. Ritz has been appointed Instructor of Modern Languages in the Tasmanian University. ...
Article : 38 wordsAnother burning fatality is reported from Geelong, making the third fatality of this kind within the past three weeks. The victim, Miss Kate Fox, aged 23, was the daughter of a well-known ...
Article : 233 wordsAccording to the cablea the mobility of the Boor bas been Badly interfered with, and when his oxen failed be fauud himself in a sad predicament. The bullock is all very well in a way, but he cannot be ...
Article : 393 wordsThe Highland Brigade, under the command of Major-General Hector MacDonald, has reinforced LieutenantGeneral Kelly-Kenny's division, which ...
Article : 48 wordsA meeting of the Roman Catholic clergy and laity was held in the vestry at St. Patrick's Cathedral today, to make preliminary arrangements in connection with the proposed Roman Catholic Congress, which ...
Article : 409 wordsAt the invitation of Mr.James Inglis, of Messrs. James Inglis and Co, Limited, a number of gentlemen assembled yesterday at his office to witnoss the presentation by him of 525 " billies " ...
Article : 1,246 wordsThe colonial troops made a brilliant bayonet charge on Friday night at Dordrecht, which was lately occupied by the enemy. The Boers fled. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe " Times " correspondent at Modder River says that a day's unavoidable delay in the transport arrangements at Do Kiet's Drift prevented the British surrounding ...
Article : 63 wordsAccording to an official correction, Private M'Cance, one of the Victorians who was reported to have been killed in the fighting near Rensburg on the 10th ...
Article : 40 wordsDr. Ramsay Smith has submitted the following to the press for publication:—Dr. Gerald Hayward, who attended the alleged bubonie plague patient M'Cann at the quarantine station, ...
Article : 75 wordsThe bulk of Commandant Cronje's forces orossed the Modder River, and proceeded towards Bloemfontein, in order to avoid starvation. ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Premier states that the Government is not losing sight of the necessity of having everything roady for the defeucs of New South Wales, should any uuforcseeu political complication arise. ...
Article : 116 wordsThe 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, with four guns, the 6th Dragoon Guards, a detachmeat of Lancers, and two companies of Australian troops under Captain J. G. ...
Article : 88 wordsMr.Lyne forwarded a telegram to Victoria expressing sympathy on behalf of the people of this colouy with the relatives of thoso Victorians who were killed and in[?] during the recent engagement ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 20 Feb 1900, Page 7
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