I olosed my last letter with details of the lose of Lientenant Dowling's troop of New South Wales Lauce[?]s and Australian Horse Mutters were so burried that I had not time to got very ...
Article : 1,199 wordsThe naval estimates have been laid on the table of the House of Commons. The estimates amount to £27,500,000. They provide for the building of two ...
Article : 87 wordsReceiving a second message which suggested surrender, Major-General Lord Kitchener (Lord Roberts's Chief of Staff) invited General Cronje to the British camp ...
Article : 360 wordsThe persistency of General Cronje in holding his position, though surrounded by the British, is attributed to a preconcerted plan to occupy the attention of the ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Heaith Department has been more than ordinatily active for some time past. And this activity was greatly increased on both Saturday and Sunday. Sunday is supposed to be a " dies non," but that is a, ...
Article : 2,386 wordsCorporal R. S. M'Alpine, Private A. E. Coulson, and Private H. J. Colley, of the Victorian Mounted Rifles Contingent, are seriously ill. ...
Article : 28 wordsLater reports state that Major-General Hector MacDonald, commanding officer of the Highland Brigade, who was reported to have been severely wounded, was ...
Article : 38 wordsThe steamer Maori King, with the second Queensland contingent aboard, has arrived at Table Bay. Feb. 25. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe recognition by Lord Roberts of the necessity of rapid movements by his forces has altered the whole campaign. Prisoners who have been captured ...
Article : 108 wordsTwo thousand Afridi hillmen on the Indian north-west frontier have offered their help to Lord Roberts. ...
Article : 25 wordsAt Ladysmith two armed German spies have been captured. They wore the red cross. The spies when captured were asking ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is stated that the Navy is ready for immediate mobilisation if it should become necessary. ...
Article : 27 wordsLast night the largest crowd that has ever gathered on any Saturday night during the war assembled outside the War Office. No news, however, was ...
Article : 32 wordsThe steamer Admiral has landed at Delagoa Bay 100 German recruits for the Transvaal. The steamer Germonde has landed at ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. G. J. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, has announced in the House of Commons that he awaits the establishment of a central authority by the ...
Article : 50 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts notifies that owing to the frequent violation which the enemy has made of the proper practice in the use of the white flag the British ...
Article : 59 wordsThe steamer Moresby, from the Islands, has anchored in quarantine. She will remain there until tomorrow or Wednesday next. This action is owing to the New Hebrides having been proclaimed ...
Article : 51 wordsThe following extracts are from a letter received in North Sydney on Saturday. It is written by a lady in close counectiou with military mattera:— " Martizburg, Natal, January 23, 1900. ...
Article : 587 wordsLieutenant G. Wall, of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, New South Wales, has been granted a lieutenancy in the Imperial Yeomanry, which is about to ...
Article : 34 wordsThe French steamer Maroc upon her arrival from Noumea to-day was at once ordered by Dr. Russell, health officer of the port, Into strict quarantine in conrequence of the prevalence of bubonic plague in New ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Boers claim that the Ermelo and Middleburg commandos repulsed Sir Redvers Buller on Thursday with heavy loss. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe " Daily Telegraph " states that Lieutenant-General Kouropatkine, Minister for War, had prepared a plan whereby Russia could seize Herat in ...
Article : 87 wordsAdvices which have been received from Pretoria state that fighting is proceeding near Kimberley and around Petrusberg, east of Paarde Berg, but that the result is ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Medical Staff Corps sent from New South Wales under Lieutenant-Colonel Yandeleur Kelly in the steamer Moravian has arrived at East London, Cape Colony, ...
Article : 67 wordsAmong the prisoners captured by the force under Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, is Count Sternberg, an Austrian. General Sir Redvers Buller has captured ...
Article : 46 wordsIt transpires that the horses recently shipped by the Folmina from Queensland for South Africa are intended for the Imperial Yeomanry, having been purchased by Baron Rothschild. ...
Article : 173 wordsLieutenant-General Lord Methuon, who recently moved forward to Kimberley, has been appointed Administrator of Kimberley district. ...
Article : 24 wordsA letter which was found in the deserted trenches of the enemy at Hlangwane Hill stated that the Boer losses at Spion Kop, when attacked by ...
Article : 49 wordsOwing to the deficiency of silver coins, one, two, and three shilling notes have been issued at Mafeking. ...
Article : 25 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller states that in the fighting across the Tugela on Tuesday and Wednesday his losses were— Killed. Wonuded. ...
Article : 168 wordsReuter's correspondent at Calcutta hints that owing to the presence of a large Russian force at Kushk the Indian Government has propared certain military ...
Article : 47 wordsA large proportion of the Transvaal population has for many years looked upon General Cronje as the proper person to exercise supreme military authority in the ...
Article : 1,175 wordsThe barque Edinburgh, 1405 tons, which arrived in Hobson's Bay on Saturday afternoon from London, had an eventful passage. She sailed on October 25, and the ...
Article : 107 wordsA sum of £500,000 in gold has been received in London from Russia to enable Persia to discharge her iudobtednoss to British creditors, thus freeing the customs ...
Article : 72 wordsEdward Gillam, a well-known farmer in the Hagley district, and a son were driving home from Westbury on Thursday evening, when they were thrown out of a buggy Gillam, senior, ...
Article : 119 wordsDr. Leyds, the Transvaal Plenipotentiary to Europe, affirms that General Cronje has broken through the British force. ...
Article : 29 wordsOn Friday night, at the invitation of the Mayor of Leichhardt (Alderman J P Treadgold), an influential meeting of citizens was hold in the Leichhardt Town Hall for the purpose of considering the ...
Article : 221 wordsA fatal accident took place at the M'Evoy mine, Eldorado, on Saturday. Two shift captains, James Trainer and Thomas K. Dunston, were on duty at the top level when the water started to ...
Article : 191 wordsA party of British explorers, accompanied by an escort of 75 Ghoorkas, were attacked by 500 Chinese between the Irrawadi and the Salwen rivers, in ...
Article : 57 wordsLieutenant-General French with his cavalry and artillery is scouring the oountry towards Bloemfontein. Ho has destroyed, piecemeal, reinforcements which ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Commercial Hotel, Ashhurst, was destroyed by fire yesterday. Miss O'Callaghan, the landlord's siotor-in-law, was burned to death. ...
Article : 28 wordsDespite the fact that huge numbers of Boers' waggons, whose line extends for many miles, are trekking north along the road from Ladysmith to Dundee, there ...
Article : 50 wordsIhe Medic, Ranson commander, ainved from London, via Capetown, at 10 p.m. yesterday. She has 160 third-class passengers for all ports, and sailed for Adelaide at noon. ...
Article : 33 wordsAn outbreak of the bubonic plague has occurred at Aden. ...
Article : 16 wordsTrooper Joseph Taylor, who leaves for South Africa with the Bushmen's Contingent, had a cordial and hearty send-off on Tuesday last at the Mosman Public School, ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Lenten pastorals of Archbishop Carr and other Roman Catholic prelates were read in the churches to-day Archbishop Carr's pastoral contains a referenco to the war in South Africa, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 55 wordsThere were some alterations in the betting quota tions for the Newmarket on Saturday evening Odds at 100 to 8 were offered on the field, Cornquist, Sequence, and Foret figuring at that price, whilo ...
Article : 284 wordsPresident Kruger claims that the line of communications of General Cronje's forces has not been severed. ...
Article : 21 wordsMr. Charles Gibson Millar, the senior partner of Mossrs. C. and E. Millar, contractors, Western Australia, died at Madeira. ...
Article : 29 wordsIn the fighting in the Puarde Berg district on Sunday the British losses included 146 rank oud file killed. Among them were 35 of the Seaforth Highlanders. ...
Article : 40 wordsIt has been decided by the Miuistor of Defenca that the pay of tbose office aud men of the Victorian contingent who have fallen in bouth Africa shall bo continued, and handed to widows or ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Waterloo Cup meeting, after being postponed owing to the seventy of the frost, was run off during the wook at Altear, and on Friday in the final course ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Australian troops frustrated an attempt by the Boers to cut the railway line near Naauwpoort. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe funeral of Mr. J. C. Soundrett took place yesterday. The attondance was one of the largest seen at a goldfiolds funeral, and testified to the esteem in which Mr. Soandrett had ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Premier states that it ia very piobablo that it will be uccessary for the Government to take etops with the view of rendering monetary assistance to the relatives of those New ...
Article : 120 wordsIncluded in those killed in the Paarde Berg district was Lieutenant G. J. Grieve, formerly adjutant to the 6th Regiment of New South Wales infantry, and ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Inniskilling Dragoons and the Australians have occupied Mooifontein, oxpelling the Boers, who are retreating northwards. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe following officers have been selected for the Bushmen's Contingent:—Captaine: Captain Harry George Vialls and Captain Howard Edward Murst. Lieutenants: Captain Andrew, Fitzgerald, ...
Article : 222 wordsThe intercolonial tennis tournament was concluded on Saturday. Dunlop and Brookes (Victorians) beat Bowen and Baker (South Australians) in the cham pionship Binples, the secres being 5-7, 1-6, 6-2, 7-5, ...
Article : 45 wordsIn the fighting at Arundel on the 21st instant Private W. E. Smith, of the first South Australian contingent, was killed. ...
Article : 28 wordsA short time ago Mr. Georgo Howarth, M.L.A., reccived a promise from the fruitgrowers in the Willoughby and Pymble distrlets to forward n supply of fruit for the use of the Bushmen's ...
Article : 79 wordsSeventy-six men of the British forces were wounded in the fighting at Klip Kraal on the 16th instant. Inoluded amongst these was Private E. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 26 Feb 1900, Page 7
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