News has just reached London from the seat of war that General Cronje, the Boer Commander in the Free State, has been surrounded by the British forces ...
Article : 382 wordsThe appeal made by her Majesty the Queen for ex-soldiers to rejoin, the ranks has met with surprising success. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe authorities are investigating a suspected case of bubonic plague which has ended fatally, the victim being Captain T.R. Dudley, who died at his residence, Cambridge-road, Drummoyne, on ...
Article : 924 wordsThe Inniskilling Dragoons and the Australians have occupied Mooifontein, expelling the Boors, who are retreating northwards. ...
Article : 29 wordsLord Roberts, from Paarde Berg, made a reconnaissance of the enemy's position on Tuesday, and came to the conclusion that be co[?]ld not assault it without severe loss. He therefore ...
Article : 5,619 wordsLord Salisbury, the Premier, states that Great Britain has entered into no engagement with any Power respecting the treatment of the South African ...
Article : 47 wordsGeneral Cronje declared, in answer to Major-Genural Lord Kitchener, that he would fight until dead. Lord Kitchoner resumed the attack on ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Boers are making a determined stand in the Free State. They had the alternative of either surrendering or fighting on equal conditions, and they chose the latter. It is a novel ...
Article : 1,023 wordsIn the German Reichstag yesterday Prince Hohenlohe (Chancellor of the Empire) refused to repeal the Government's arbitrary powers in regard to ...
Article : 37 wordsInformation has been received of further developments at Modder River, where a Boer force under General Cronje is surrounded by the British. ...
Article : 126 wordsLord Roberts telegraphed from Paarde Berg on the 21st as follows:— "Yesterday I made a careful reconnaissance of the enemy's position, which satisfied me that ...
Article : 113 wordsMr.Rutter Clarke has contributed £100 to the Indian Famine Fund. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe "Times" expresses the hope, now that the New Zealand Government's legal position in regard to the Midland Railway Company has been vindicated, that the ...
Article : 92 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 wordsIt is feared the British losses, chiefly on Sunday, numbered 1100. The prisoners captured by Lord Roberts's force formed part of ...
Article : 70 wordsMr.John Beaumont, late of Christchurch, New Zealand, has succeeded Mr. Edward Martin as chairman of the board of directors of the New Zealand Loan and ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Australian troops frustrated an attempt by the Boers to cut the railway line near Naauwpoort. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe death is announced of Dr.Charles Piazzi Smyth, aged 81, LL.D., F.R.A.S., F.R.S.E., ex-Astronomer Royal for Scotland. ...
Article : 26 wordsLord Roberts pays a tribute to the heroism of the Canadians in charging the Boer laager. The "Times" correspondent at Ottawa ...
Article : 39 wordsOwing to the deficiency of silver coins, one, two, and three shilling notes have been issued at Mafeking. ...
Article : 27 wordsCorporal R.S. M'Alpine, Private A.E. Coulson, and Private H.J.Colley, o[?]he Victorian Mounted Rifles Contingent, are seriously ill. ...
Article : 28 wordsAt a meeting of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association at Christchurch to-day the report of the sub-committee was brought up with regard to the treatment of ...
Article : 117 wordsSixteen officers of Major-General Macdonald's Highland Brigade had been wounded and two killed up to Sunday last. ...
Article : 26 wordsDr.Ashburton Thompson, President of the Board of Health, was interviewed at a late hour last night by a representative of the "Herald," to whom be made the following statement:— ...
Article : 1,062 wordsThe members of the Railway Officials' Conference concluded their labours at Parliament House to-day. In all 75 different subjects were considered by the delegates, and a large number of ...
Article : 98 wordsCommander Du Toit, a Boer leader, acknowledges having retreated to Riverton, north of Kimberley, and further that the British cavalry captured all his guns. ...
Article : 34 wordsColonel Plumer, who is advancing to the relief of Mafeking, made a night attack upon the enemy at Crocodile Pools on the 12th instant. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe steamer Oceania arrived from Sydney this morning. She ships 8200 cases of apples, and leaves for Melbourne on Saturday. At the annual communication of the Grand ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Premier (Mr.Hollder), when questioned to-day in reference to a cable message from London regarding the inclusion of Western Australia in the Commonwealth, said that recently ...
Article : 277 wordsThe "Daily News" states that General Cronje marched 33 miles without outspanning. His force, numbering 8000 men, lined the banks of ...
Article : 225 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 88 wordsLieutenant-General Lord Methuen, who is at Kimberley, reports that there is enough coal in the town to start the De Beer's Mines and to keep them going for ...
Article : 49 wordsThe latest news from Natal in regard to the advance of General Sir Redvers Buller upon Ladysmith indicates that Buller's heavy guns are across the Tugela. The ...
Article : 83 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 95 wordsThe following cable was received to-day by the Lieutenant-Governor from Sir Alfred Milner: —"I regret to report the following casualties at Rensburg on February 12: V.M.R., No. 61, ...
Article : 270 wordsMajor Cardew, who has come from London at the request of the City Council to submit to them a schems for the electric lighting of Sydney, arrived yesterday afternoon. He was met by the Town Clerk ...
Article : 116 wordsQuartermaster-Sergeant Bishop, of the Western Australian contingent, has died from sunstroke at De Aar. ...
Article : 27 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 195 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 40 wordsPrivate S.C. Atchinson, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, was killed by a shell while holding horses at Arundel, in Northern Cape Colony. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe British, with 50 guns, bombarded General Cronje on Monday and Tuesday, adding to the enemy's previous losses. A 24-hours' armistice was asked for by ...
Article : 76 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 103 wordsThe Premier yesterday received a telegram from the High Commisoner for South Africa, dated February 22, as follows:—" I regret to report that No.17, Private E.C. At[?]hison, New South Wales Mounted ...
Article : 45 wordsThe "Neueste Nachrichten," a leading daily paper of Berlin, in an inspired paragraph, tenders President Krager hearty German hospitality. ...
Article : 30 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 19 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 24 Feb 1900, Page 9
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: