Lord Beauchamp arrived from Rotorua this afternoon, and is tho guest of Lord Ranfurly at Government House. The Auekland Naval Brigade furnished a guard of honour at the railway ...
Article : 46 wordsThe, surrounded Boer force under General Cronje at the Modder is confined in the river bed. The dimensions of the confined area are-Length, 2 miles; ...
Article : 277 wordsLast Saturday General Buller's foroe was within two miles of Sir George White's outposts. All the hills along the line of advance were strongly forlified, and every foot of the country was ...
Article : 7,214 wordsGeneral Cronje, whose force is surrounded in the Modder River, is using rockets in order to attract assistance. He has burrowed into the river banks so as to ...
Article : 84 wordsWe have been taught, during the progess of the war, to accept with a large amount of reservation the reports of operations which como from Delagoa Bay; and the British authorities are ...
Article : 1,392 wordsThe Victorians' innings closed for 430, Ross making 46, M'Ilwraith 31. Wellington in the first innings only scored 65, and following on added 8 more without the loss of ...
Article : 92 wordsThe onemy's forces encountered by General Sir Redvers Buller have every hill they hold strongly entrenched. The country is splendidly adapted to Boer ...
Article : 149 wordsVery hot weather prevails. Mr. Dennis O'Flynn, a young man, received a sunstroke yesterday, and died to-day. Mrs. Paris, 70, died to-day from the effects of ...
Article : 31 wordsColonel Paterson, of Queensland, was the first man to enter Kimberley. ...
Article : 17 wordsIt is evident from the cables that the British cavalry horses are suffering terribly from the great heat that the British troops are experiencing in the Organe State. It is natural that they would ...
Article : 296 wordsIt is reported that in addition to the casualties already notified, 20 members of the Canadian Contingent, which is employed with the British Division at ...
Article : 36 wordsA "Gazette Extraordinary" was issued to-day further proroguing Parliament until May 3. A meeting of graziers and farmers who are sufferers by the fire that originated on the ...
Article : 99 wordsColenso is full of waggons containing supplies of necessaries and luxuries for Ladysmith. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Bushmen's Contingent, mounted, will leave Kensington racecourse nt 1 o'clock p.m. to-morrow, and will pass through the following streeks on its way to Cowper Wharf, where the men and horses will ...
Article : 2,088 wordsThe quantity of coal shipped at the Government hydraulio cranes at the dyke for interual, international, aud foreiga'consuption during the week ended this morning was 54,287 tons, as compared ...
Article : 187 wordsWhile the steamer Maori King, conveying the Queensland Second Contingent to South Africa, was off the coast of Madagascar, a lamp-trimmer was arrested ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Boers are tenaciously defending an extremely strong position at Grobler's Kloof, north-west of Colenso. After a tremendous cannonade the Fifth ...
Article : 55 wordsThe problem of what the Boers are going to do alter the war is over is one that constautly presents itself to those who are acquainted with the Dutchmen of the South African Republic. And then, too, ...
Article : 593 wordsThe Tasmanian Second Contingent has left Capetown for the front. ...
Article : 16 wordsMr. E, Martin, of Adelaide, has been granted a commission as lieutonant in the Manchester Regiment. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Mavor of Lambton and two other aldermen who were arrested by order of the Sheriff on Saturday morning for non-payment of fince of £10 each imposed by the Full Court for ...
Article : 336 wordsMr. W. J. Sauer, Ministor for Works in Cape Colony, has stopped the pay of railway employees who have gone to the front as volunteers. ...
Article : 32 wordsOn Friday the Irish (5th) Brigade, consisting of the first battalions of the Inniskilling Fusiliers, the Connaught Rangers, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and the Bor., ...
Article : 63 wordsPresident Kruger has re-opened Robinson's Bank at Pretoria, restoring a cash currency. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Boers claim that the Ermelo and Middleburg commandos repulsed Sir Redvers Buller on Thursday with heavy loss. ...
Article : 24 wordsLord Roborts offered General Cronje to grant a safe conduct for the women and children from the laager. General Cronje refused the offor. ...
Article : 87 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3 [?] per ounce standard. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Premier is in receipt of a [?]raudum from the Conference of Government Statisticians, stating the populaton of the five federating colones, and the number of members each colony is entittd to in ...
Article : 191 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Tasmanian [?] mining Company was held to-night, when £100 was voted to the Patriotie Fund. Mr. Wm. Hart said that if they were without another break ...
Article : 181 wordsAt Ladysmith two armed German spies have been oaptured. They wore the red cross. The spies when captured were asking ...
Article : 34 wordsThe ceremony of laying the four memorial-stones in connection with the new School of Arts building might break through; and presently the lock was at Tighe's Hill, now in cource of construction, was ...
Article : 135 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 : 48 wordsThe Premier (Mr.W.J. Lyne) was spoken to after the receipt of the telegrams from the seat of war last night, and was asked whether, in view of the more favourable outlook of events, it was still the ...
Article : 173 wordsDeserters from the enemy's laager deolare that General Cronjo is willing to surrender, but that he is overborne in his desire by the young Transvaal Boers. ...
Article : 34 wordsAt the City Court to-day Norman Phillips, 17, and George Fiedler, 19, were charged with having, in company, stolen a cet of haruess valued at 60s, the property of Charlas M'Lenuau. The former ...
Article : 97 wordsMiss Ada Crossley, the Australian contralto, has been selected as a soloist at the approaching Handel festival. ...
Article : 24 wordsColonel Baden-Powell reported Mafeking " well " on the 15th instant. ...
Article : 17 wordsBoer prisoners describe General Cronje's resistance as murder. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 537 wordsThe ordinary meeting of the City Council was held at the council-chambers this evening. The Mayor (Alderman David Miller) presided. The municipal iospector reported that during the past fortnight ...
Article : 115 wordsAt the meoting of the Southern Monare and Federal Capital Railway Leagues the secretary Mr. C. Murphy reported on a trip to Baunsdale as delegate to a conference. He said that a league including ...
Article : 75 wordsWhile reconnoitring near Stormberg, in North-enstern Cape Colony, Captain the Hon. R. H. L. J. do Montmoreney, in command of a corps of scouts, and ...
Article : 46 wordsLord Roberts, in his cabled despatoh on Saturday, complains that the Boers are using expansive and explosive bullets of the worst type. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Premier has received the following reply to his cable to Lord Roberts:—Please tender my grateful thanks to the Queensland Government for the kind and encouraging message. I rejoice to hear ...
Article : 71 wordsOn Saturday night Mr. It. Basche, one of the caudidates for Hastngs and Macleav, addressed a large meeting of the electors at the Theatre Royal, Kempsey. He was accorded a good hearing. Mr. ...
Article : 71 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 : 80 wordsAu association of santary inspeotors, embracing the whole of the Hunter River district, has been formed, with the following objects:—(1) To cultivate and foster more active interest in matters ...
Article : 124 wordsAmong the prisoners captured by the force under Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, is Couut Sternberg, an Austrian. General Sir Redvers Buller has captured ...
Article : 44 wordsThe sad news of the death of Lieutenant Gideon James Grieve, one of the New South Wales special service officers sent to South Africa, came as a shock to his many friends in Sydney, both military and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 wordsThe contention of the miners' representatives that some of the colliery propristors of the northera districk are violating the agreement arrived at some time ago between the ...
Article : 156 wordsSir Alfred Milnor, tho High Commissioner for South Africa, has welcomed the members of the New Zoaland second contingent and the members of the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe correspondent of the " Times " at Delagoa Bay states that he has obtained ...
Article : 139 wordsGreat consternation, according to the Delagoa Bay correspondent of the London "Times," pravails in the city of Mr. Krauger, and the state of that dorp can well be imagined, for it can hardly to ...
Article : 476 wordsSweet is pleasure after pain, And sweet the sunshine after rain; But swector still whom life seems misty Is Brown's Famous FOUR CROWN ...
Article : 29 wordsThe stoamer Admiral has landed at ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 27 Feb 1900, Page 5
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