The greater part of Wednesday Ispent in watching the King's Royals [?]niping on the western ridges, and the lesson given by the Afridis has made some of our shots as adept in this art as ...
Article : 3,765 wordsThe aspect of affairs in Ashanti is still serious. The palavering which Sir F. M. Hodgson, the Governor, was carrying on with ...
Article : 51 wordsA special meeting of the City Council to-day formally approved of the agreement with Mr. W. G[?]ntry Bingham in connection with the purchase of the tramways of Adelaide and the substitution ...
Article : 210 wordsLord Roberts is entrenching Bloemfontein. This is interpreted to mean that a large British force will soon be liberated for the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe correspondence of Mr. Steyn, the exPresident, and of Mr. A. Fischer, a member of the late Executive of the Orange Free State, has been discovered at ...
Article : 65 wordsLieutenant-General Sir W. F. Gatnere, commanding the third division of the army corps, now stationed at Springfontein, is returning to England. ...
Article : 45 wordsSix seamen of the torpedo boat destroyer, Desperate, while sailing a boat at Brighton, capsized the craft, and all were drowne ...
Article : 30 wordsIn the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday M. Delcasse (the Premier) was asked a question whether Portugal was observing neutrality in allowing Great ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Companies' Death Duties Act of New South Wales is being criticised. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, states that the Act ...
Article : 66 wordsA new division of the Army Corps, to be called the Eleventh, has been formed. It will be commanded by Major-General Pole-Carew, who has been in command ...
Article : 41 wordsTenders were opened yesterday for the erection of a new Custom-house at Hobart. They range from £14,689 to £17,450. As the available vote is only £12,000 Ministers have not yet decided on ...
Article : 94 wordsAll the Boer prisoners now at Simonstown will be sent to St. Helena in batches. This step has been taken owing to the attempts many have made to escape, and ...
Article : 48 wordsColonel Inigo R. Jones, of the Scots Guards, has been appointed to the command of the Guards Brigade, vice MajorGeneral Pole-Carew, promoted. ...
Article : 71 wordsAt the sales of Australasian tallow 775 [?]asks were offered and 257 were sold. Mutton, fine, realised 30s; mutton, medium, realised 28s; beef, fine, realised ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Court of Marine Inquiry sat again yesterday, and took further evidence concerning the foundering of the Glenelg. Mr. Ebsworth, solicitor, attended, and informed the Court that he ...
Article : 85 wordsThe steamer Hyson, which left Newcastle on March 16, has arrived at Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Irish (5th) Brigade, under MajorGeneral Hart, recently in Natal, is now on its way to reinforce Lord Roberts. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe American visible supply of wheat and flour east of the Rockies is 77,113,000 bushels. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 54 wordsThe Australian Rifles are holding a regimen tal camp at the rifle range, Hornsby Junction. The four headquarter companies fall in last night at 8 o'clock at Chancery-square, and marched to Redfern ...
Article : 367 wordsLord Roberts has issued a proclamation in which he has warned the Dutch in northern Cape Colony that unless they remain quiescent they will be rigorously ...
Article : 40 wordsHeavy rains in the Orango Free State are impeding the movements of the forces under Lord Roberts. ...
Article : 24 wordsGood rains have fallen in parts of the St. George district. During the week St. George registered 115 points: Dirrenbandi, 105; Surat, 136; Mungindi, 12. The fall was much heavier ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Infantry were again put through the routine drills yesterday, ba[?]tulion in the morning and company drill in the afternoon. The [?] orderlies hit upon another novelty, which ...
Article : 126 wordsMajor-General Lord Kitcheuer commands 15,000 men, who guard the railway from Bloemfontein to Norval's Pont. Great precautions have been taken to ...
Article : 54 wordsSir William Gata[?]re is returning to England, and changes have also taken place in brigade commands. Whatever mistakes have been committed by the generals in South Africa, it will be ...
Article : 1,521 wordsThe Rev. Mr. Sehroder, a rebel, and a member of the Cape Assembly, have been arrested and brought into Upington. Thirty leading rebels of the Aliwal ...
Article : 58 wordsValentine Pfingst, who was found guilty of manslaughter yesterday at the Toowoomba Circuit Court, in connection with the Goondiwindi tragedy, was sentenced to 14 years' penal ...
Article : 88 wordsThrough his Excellency the Governor a cablegram was yesterday received by the Premier from Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner for South Africa, as follows:— ``Regret to report No. 10, Corpora[?] ...
Article : 49 wordsAt Wepener, which is being defended by Lieutenant-Colonel Dalgetty with the Cape Rifles, 11 British were killed in the engagement with the Boers on Monday, ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. Newbigin, a smallpox patient from the steamer India, and nurses were released from quarantine yesterday. In connection with the rabbit invasion the ...
Article : 74 wordsOne of the largest demonstrations held here took place last night in aid of the Patriotic Fund. The procession left Jubiles Bridge, headed by the town [?] and followed by the fire b[?]gatle, the ...
Article : 282 wordsLord Roberts has arrested at Bloemfontein many influential residents who are disaffected. They have been sent to Capetown. ...
Article : 27 wordsIt has been decided that the [?]aval forces will also take part in the general inspection to be held in the Centennial Park on Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock The Naval Brigade and Naval Artillery Volunteer[?] ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Boers north of Elandslaagte in shelling the camp of Lieutenant-General Sir C. F. Clery unmasked six of their guns, one of which was a 100-pounder. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 634 wordsIn the engagement at Wepener on Monday the Boe[?]s wavered, and then made an assault on Lieutenant-Colonel Dal getty's weakest point, but they were ...
Article : 64 wordsThe returns for the month from the Anckland goldfields are £46,873, an increase of £1166, compared with the corresponding month of last year. A private cable states that the American ...
Article : 76 wordsSeveral questions affecting the administration of the Tyson Estate came before the Chief Justice yesterday in chambers. The Queensland Trustees, Limited, applied for leave ...
Article : 201 wordsH.M.S. Powerful has arrived at Portsmouth from the Cape. The detachment of her bluejackets who took part in the defence of Ladysmith ...
Article : 59 wordsOn Tuesday Lieutenant-Colonel Dalgetty overturned the big gun with which the enemy was bombarding the town. The gun had been making a great deal ...
Article : 75 wordsCaptain R. E. Roth, Army Medical Corps, writing to the St. John Ambulance Association, New South Wales Centre, under date February 2, says: ``Today is the first apportunity we have bad of writing ...
Article : 572 wordsOn the 19th instant the leave of the volunteers who hold positions in the Cape railway workshops, and who are now serving at the front, will expire. ...
Article : 91 wordsAmong the troops at Aliwal North are 260 New Zealanders. A Boer commando is just to the northward of the town. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe R.M.S. Areadia, A. C. Loggin commander, arrived from Colombo at 7 a.m. to-day. The asloon passengers are:— For Albany: Mr. Ingle, Misses Ingle, ...
Article : 139 wordsThe second annual conference of the Australian Socialist League was opened last night at the rooms, 251 Castlereaghstreet, Mr. S. C. Clarke [?]conpying the chair, Delegates were present from Sydney and suburbun branches, as also from ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Cape Colony border, for which some anxiety was felt on account of Commandant Olivier's force is secure. Commandant Olivier's horses are much ...
Article : 32 wordsIn the course of the interview at Naples Mr. A. Fischer, of the Orange Free State, declared that Sir Alfred Milner, the High Commissioner, went to the Cape entrusted ...
Article : 76 wordsMajor-General Sir H. C. Chermside, lately commanding the 14th Brigade, succeeds Licutenant-General Sir W. F. Gatacre in the command of the Third ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 13 Apr 1900, Page 7
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