At Bloemfontein the proclamation by the Governor, Major-General Pretyman, calling on all burghers within a radius of 10 miles to submit and disarm is being ...
Article : 119 wordsSt. Patrick's Day was celebrated throughout the United Kingdom and the Empire with unparalleled enthusiasm. Roferences were everywhere made to ...
Article : 79 wordsA Boer commandant's note book found at the Tugela indicntes that the enemy's casualties between December 12 and January 24 numbered 1494. ...
Article : 38 wordsAt Edenburg 800 Free Staters surrendered. General Gatacre captured 40 waggons and two engines at Springfontein. Some Transvaalcrs ...
Article : 6,847 wordsThe Boers have quitted Windsorten, between Warrenton and Kimberley, and some distance west of the railway line. Their adjutant is Holloway, a prize ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. P. J. de Wet, M.L.A. for Wode-house, Cape Colony, and a member of the Afrikander Bund has been arrested at Burghersdorp on a charge of treason. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 wordsThe war news to-day indicales progress on all hands-useful icconnaissances in Natal, a strong advance in the direction of Mafeking, the capture of some ...
Article : 1,331 wordsLieutenant-Genernl Lord Methuen, Administrator of the Kimberley district, on Friday arrived at Warrenton, 43 miles north of Kimberley. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe occurrence of infectious cases of sickness has delayed the departure of the Boer prisoners for St. Helena. No Free Staters are going. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Government has decided to divide the fourth contingent into two sections. Lieutenant-Colonel Francis, with the rank of major, goes in command of one, and Captain Davies, now at the Cape ...
Article : 408 wordsThr ee-fourths of the Free Staters who were under arms have returned to their farms. ...
Article : 25 wordsH.M.S. Powerful has been ordered homeward from Table Bay, and will not go to China as previously announced. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn the siege of Mafeking desperate sapping has been done by the besiegers and desperate counter-sapping by the garrison, The Boers, who had advanced nearer ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Free State burghers are increasingly indignant with President Steyn's concealment of the number of casualties. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. Wyndham, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the War Office, states that since October 30,000 men have joined tho volunteers, and 20,000 men ...
Article : 36 wordsIn times of war and of peace there is always a good demand for horseflesh in the markets of the world, and it will be acknowledged that Australia is a great equine-producing country. Possibly there has ...
Article : 515 wordsRecriminations between tho Free Staters and the Transvaal Boers imprisoned at Simons. Town have compelled the authorities to take precautions to ...
Article : 35 wordsNearly 5,000,000 persons in the faminestricken districts of India are being fed by the Government. '. ...
Article : 24 wordsMany complaints have been made to Lord Roberts that bad boots have been issued to soldiers on service in South Africa. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Consolidated Gold Mines of West Australia is being floated with a capital of £150,000. Forty thousand shares are being issued at par, where of £30,000 ...
Article : 52 wordsIn the Orange River districts some Transvaal Boers have been taken prisoners and thousands of rebels have surrendered to the British authorities. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. Winston Churchill states that there are 14,000 Boers, with 20 guns, at Biggarsberg. ...
Article : 21 wordsColonel Plumer, with his relieving force, is nearer Mafeking. The railway is reported clear. March 19. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 149 wordsThe announcement contained in the "Herald" yesterday that the Hon. Henry Copeland had been selected by the Government to fill the important post of Agent-General led to a considerable amount of ...
Article : 1,079 wordsA British warship has lauded a number of men and guns at Walfish Bay as a precaution against acts of aggression by the Damaraland Boers. ...
Article : 33 wordsDeserters from the ranks of the Boers have brought a Maxim and a 9-pounder to the British camp at Belmont; another 9-pounder has been brought to the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Khedive of Egypt, Abbas II., will visit England'in the summer, and will be entertained at Windsor Castle. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. W. P. Schreiner, Premier of Cape Colony, has prohibited the holding of jubilant colobrations to mark the British successes unless specially authorised. ...
Article : 31 wordsA. portion of the stores that were being carried by the British convoy, lost at the Riet River, was recovered at Bloemfoutein. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe death is announced of General Sir William Lockhart, G.C.B., K.C.S.I., Commander-in-Chief in India, aged 59 years. ...
Article : 97 wordsThe rebels at Wesburg threaten the British position at Victoria West, 75 miles south-west of De Aar. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 71 wordsFor days and days the officers and men stationed at the Kensington Camp have been patiently waiting for some definite information regarding their future movements. Everything was vague and ...
Article : 955 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3 ll-16d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 17 wordsDespite the statements made by British Ministers and the rebuff which President Kruger received from Germany, the Transvaal Boers still cling to the delusion ...
Article : 45 wordsGreat pleasure is expressed at the release of Lieutenant Dowling at Bloemfontein. Advices received state that he has been appointed to Lord Roberts' staff. ...
Article : 35 wordsA daring highway robbery of a similiar kind to that which happend at Boulder-road last year occurred shortly after noon to day, opposite the Government school, Cassidy-street, ...
Article : 333 wordsCaptain Hunter-Weston, R.E., and 10 Engineers, who traversed the Boer ' lines on Sunday night, cut the telegraph line to the north of the town, and wrecked with ...
Article : 59 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Raphael Tuck, of the firm of Raphael Tuck and Son, art publishers. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 220 wordsPresident Kruger and Mr. Steyn pay accounts of £300 and upwards in bar gold. ...
Article : 21 wordsThomas William Mattinson, a single man, aged 40, died at Port Adelaide yesterday from the effects of taking spirits of salts on Saturday. Two inmates of the Parkside Lunatio Asylum ...
Article : 68 wordsMajor-General Pole-Carew, in charge of the Guards Brigade, has returned from Norval's Pont to Bloemfontein. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe British officers prisoners at Pretoria have had their quarters transferred from the centre of the town to Daspoortridge on the outskirts. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe British cavalry have advanced eastwards from Bloemfontein and hold Thaba'nchu, midway to Ladybrand, which is situated near tho Basutoland ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Treasurer has decided, in response to an appeal from the Northern Tasmanian manufacturers to be placed on the same footing as those on the mainland, to include the following articles ...
Article : 104 wordsCaptain R. W. Salmon, adjutant of the Victorian Mounted Rifles, has died of enteric fever at the Orange River station. ...
Article : 27 wordsGreat interest is being shown in the concert to be given by the Amatour Orchestral Society at the Town Hall to-morrow night, as the function will be one of the most important yet arranged in aid of the ...
Article : 262 wordsLord Roberts has entrusted the army hospital at Bloemfontein, containing 500 beds, to Major Fiasehi, of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps, and to the ...
Article : 42 wordsA large squad of men areo busily engaged in the construction of the Boulder Perseverance sulphide plant. Most of the crushing aud gold-saving machinery has been crected, or is in course ...
Article : 246 wordsColonel T. Price, commandant of the Victorian Mounted Infantry fell in a sluit (a dry ditch) and broke a rib. He has now recovered. ...
Article : 35 wordsNews has been received by the police that a man has died from thirst at Hamilton Downs, near Kyuna. ...
Article : 26 wordsLieutenant-General Sir W. F. Gataere, who a few days ago occupied Springfontein in the Free State, 100 miles south of Bloemfontein, captured in the town 40 ...
Article : 47 wordsMajor Robins and the New Zealand Mounted Infantry, during the battle of Driefontein, repolled an attack on a convoy. ...
Article : 29 wordsTo-day the Victorian Hardware Association gave a complimentary banquet to the chairman, Mr. Edward Keep, on the occasion of his departure for an extended trip to Europe by the ...
Article : 36 wordsA sad fatality occurred this evening near the Huon-road, resulting in the death of one person and injuries to others A bruke conveying six excursionists and a driver was coming down ...
Article : 106 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts, Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, has officially censured Lieutenant-General Sir W. F. Gatacre for his conduct of ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Transvaal Boers have quitted Taungs and Vryburg, on the line between Kimberley and Mafeking. Some rebels who were aiding them in holding these ...
Article : 71 wordsA fivel was discovered early this moringing in a workshop in Belmore-Street. St Peters, occupied by Mr. H. E. Smith, gasfitte[?]. The workshop and its contents were burnt out, the further spread of the fire ...
Article : 148 wordsThese present at the sports on the Brisbane Cricket Ground to-day were asked to attend a mass meeting announced for the purpose of carrying a resolution expressing gratification at the approaching visit of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 120 wordsThe enemy is in strength at Van Reenan's Pass. A skirmish has taken place at De Beer's Pass, a few miles further north, between the Boer and the ...
Article : 45 wordsThere is cabled an important matter, and that is the line is open from Capetown to Bloemfontein. This will be an immense advantage to the British. Even on an express train, and without the slightest ...
Article : 519 wordsADLLAIDE.—Arrivals March. 10, Kalgoorlie, s., from Melbourne Dovedale s., from Newcustle. Departure: March 20, Buninyong. s., for Melbourne. PORT [?]IE.—Arrival March l8, Moonta, s., from ...
Article : 37 wordsA meeting of the selection committee of the Imperial Bushmen's Contingent was held yesterday under the presidency of his Excellency the Governor. There were also present Major-General ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 20 Mar 1900, Page 5
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