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Detailed lists, results, guides : 98 wordsThe 6th division oa the Army Corps, commanded by Lieutenant-General KellyKenny, and a cavalry force under Lieutenant-Colonel R. G. Broadwood fonght a ...
Article : 387 wordsPresidente Kruger and Steyn, in making overtures for peace, represent that British territory was only occupied for strategical and defence purposes. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe British defeated 6000 Boers at Driefontein on Saturday. They abandoned 102 of their dead. The British took 40 prisoners. Lord Roberts has advanced to Aas Vogel. ...
Article : 6,713 wordsIt is evident that Lieuteuant-Goueral Sir George White has had a very serious attack of malarial fever, and thnt his going over to the Stortuberg districk will give him the bencfit of the bracing ...
Article : 241 wordsThe " Daily News " reports that the Transvaal Government has taken preliminary steps for the removal of the women and children from Johannesburg. ...
Article : 47 wordsNo men were ourolled yesterday at Kensiugton. Major Boam, D.A.A.G., the officer in charge, was absent from camp suffering from a severe atlack of bronchitis, but he is getting better. Jajor ...
Article : 398 wordsLord Roberts has resumed his advance, and is now. at Aasvogel, about 20 miles west-north-west of Bloemfontein. ...
Article : 29 wordsLieutenant-General Sir. G. S. White, the commander of the garrison during the siege of Ladysmith, is feeble from attacks of fever contracted during the siege. ...
Article : 123 wordsIn reference to the proposal to ercet a tablet to the memory of the late Corporal Kilpatrick, we are informed by Mr. Hawthorne, M.L.A. chairman of the memorial committee, ...
Article : 330 wordsIn his despatch from Driefontein on Sunday Lord Roberts stated:— " I have telegraphed to Presidents Kruger and Steyn as follows:—'Another ...
Article : 209 wordsThe British ran short of ammunition during the engagement at Driefontein on Saturday, owing to the infantry being relieved of as much weight as possible to ...
Article : 40 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts is now within 20 miles of Bloemfontein, the capital of the Orange Free State. ...
Article : 25 wordsA letter from President Kruger was found in a commandant's bag among the stores captured by the British on the Tugela. ...
Article : 74 wordsIt is reported that the Boers have remounted a large Oreuzot gun at Johannesburg. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe " Daily Chronicle " states that the Czar has ordered the rapid mobilisation of the military and naval reserves of Russia. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe members of the third contingeat. it seems are most desirous of going to the ront with the Imperial Bushmen's Continent. A number of the men who wera tried last week and rejected through their ...
Article : 564 wordsYesterday afternoon a large and representative deputation, consisting of over 80 gentlement, waited upon the Hou. John See, M.L.A. (Minister for Defence), to arge on the Government the necessity of ...
Article : 1,425 wordsThe War Office has arranged that the remainder of the militia shall be embodied in May. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Eoreign Relations Committee of the United States' Senate, yielding to popular clamour, has 'amended the Nicaragua Canal Convention so as to ...
Article : 40 wordsDuring the battle of Driefentein, in order to escape the artillery fire while crossing the open veldt and while a squadron of cavalry was moving on its ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Mounted Infantry, commanded by Major Bethune, the Umvoti Mounted Rifles, and the Natal Mounted Police with three Maxims were heavily engaged with ...
Article : 84 wordsIn the operations at Osfontoin and at Poplar Grove the Queensland Mounted Infantry were conspicuous. Their scouting is described ns excellent. ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. E. W. Mills, the well-known Wellington merchant, died to-day. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Postmaster-General has received a communication from Mr. Crick, Postmaster-General of Now South Wales, embodying in legal phraseology the terms on which the two ...
Article : 331 wordsBeer prisoners who were taken at the battle of Driefentoin have afflrmed that the siege of Mafeking has been raised. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe overtures for peace made by Presidents Kruger and Steynto Lord Salisbury on the basis of the independence of the Republics being secured have met with a ...
Article : 79 wordsThe total British losses to date are 2418 killed, 8747 wounded, 3483 missing, 1029 died of disease. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Royal Irish Regiment and the South Australian Mounted Infantry, who form the vanguard of Major-Goneral Clements's force at Norval's Pont, report ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. Alfred Deacon (Victoria) and Mr. A. G. Kingston (South Australia), delegates to the Imperial Parliamant on the subject of Australian federation, have ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Premier has received a letter from Mr. Lyne communicating the telegram he has received from the Imperial Governmnt regarding the rates of pay of the Bushmen's Contingent. ...
Article : 114 wordsSir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, consulted the British and colonial bankers respecting the issue of the war loan. ...
Article : 29 wordsIt has been cabled that 20,000 natives have bean commandeered to entrench the alrendy well-defended Pretoria, so it would seem that the Boera mean to wake the final stand here, or at least the present ...
Article : 607 wordsDuring the reconnaissance near Colesberg on February 9 by a force of Tasmanians and Victorians, under Captain Cameron, the Australians killed a ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Russian newspapers have opened a subscription for the purpose of presenting a loving cup to General Cronje. ...
Article : 26 wordsTho Boers engaged at Driefontoin numbered 6000, and had nearly all newly arrived from the south, principally from Colesberg and Stormberg. ...
Article : 170 wordsColin Philp, son of the Queensland Premier, and two comrrades, John Hilder and George Mitchell, were tendered a public banquet here on the eve of their departure for South Africa with the Fourth ...
Article : 215 wordsLieutenant-Colonol H, Finn, of the 21st Lancers, the new commandant of the Queensland Defence Forces, is a passenger by the R.M.S. Cuzco. ...
Article : 30 wordsMajor-General Sir H. M. L. Rundle, the commander of tho 8th division of the Army Corps, and his staff left Southampton for South Africa yesterday. ...
Article : 35 wordsLieutenant Dowling, of the Australian Horse, who was taken prisoner while patrolling with a Lancer detachment near Slingersfontein after boing wounded in ...
Article : 46 wordsThe transport Maplemore with the New South Wales Bushman aboard was sighted passing the Leawin this afternoon. She is expected to arrive at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning. ...
Article : 33 wordsAlderman A. J. Newton, Lord Mayor of Lenden, has been created a "baronet. ...
Article : 22 wordsPresident Kruger has arrived at Pretoria from the rout at Osfontein. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe following February relurns are reported:— Paddington Consols crushed 2600 tans of are for 850oz 0dwt. gold; cyanide, 3090 tons of tilings, yielding 047oz. Total yield, 1497cz. 9dwt. ...
Article : 279 wordsMajor-General Lord Kitchener is at Victoria Road. He is organising measures to subduethe districts in Cape Colony now in rebellion, or in a disaffected state. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Commander-in-Chief is advancing towards Bloemfontein by easy stages On Sunday he was at Driefontein, south of the point at which it was repeatedly reported a concentration of tim Boers ...
Article : 1,276 wordsThe importers of Hamburg and Bremen are indignant at the action of the Reichstag in widening the scope of the Inspection of Meat Bill introduced by the ...
Article : 77 wordsA telegram has been received from Major Runbridge, commanding the third contingent, dated Sunday, stating that the Duke of Portland arrived at Albany after a very rough passage, about 18 ...
Article : 121 wordsThe rebels in the Ladygrey district, 30 milos east of Aliwal North, are surrendering wholesale. ...
Article : 21 wordsIt is stated that 75 per cent of those who have gone to the front from New Zealand have instructed the authorities to pay the greater portion of their pay to their parents and relatives. ...
Article : 152 wordsThe rebels in the Barkly East and Aliwal North districts, north-eastem Cape Colony, are submitting to the British authorities. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe death is announoed of Mr. E. J. Phelps, formerly United States Minister in London. ...
Article : 25 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts telegraphs from Driefontoin:— " Sunday.-The enemy opposed us throughout yesterday's march, and owing ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 103 wordsAt the Presbyterian Church yesterday the Rev. J. strung preached an in memoriam service in connection with the death of the heroes lu South Africa. The church wui draped in mourning, and the ...
Article : 65 wordsThe death is announced of Edmund Peate, the Yorkshire oricketer, aged 44 years. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 13 Mar 1900, Page 7
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