There is one corner of Ladysmith deforces which, escaping the general line of shell fire, occasionally receives special attention from the Boer gunners. The inner ring of hills comes ...
Article : 4,310 wordsThe Boera on Sunday's River, north-west of Elandslaagte, under General Louis Botha, the Commander-in-Chief, have tried to isolate Lieutenant-General ...
Article : 113 wordsIt is understood that Mr. Chamberlain is willing, if the present right of appeal to the Privy Council is left unrestricted, to advocate the passing of the remainder ...
Article : 112 wordsA report from Delagoa Bay states that there are 35,000 Boers, with 90 guns, impregnably entrenched between Kroonstad and Winburg. ...
Article : 30 wordsSeventy-five men recently landed at Delagoa Bay on their way to the Transvaal. At the instance of Great Britain 25 men ...
Article : 44 wordsMajor David Miller, the officer commanding the Aemy Service Corps, and who has been app[?]iated seting paymaster to the imperial Bushmen's Contingent, is a native of Sydney, and was born in 1857. ...
Article : 963 wordsForty-six clergymen of Evangelical churches in South Africa have presented Sir Alfred Milner, the High Commissioner, with an address of confidence in his ...
Article : 142 wordsMr. J. H. Carruthers, of New South Wales, in a letter to the "Times," says that the, rejeetion of the clause in the Commonwealth Bill providing for the ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Griffith, representative for the Western Australian Goldfields Separation League in London, has protested to Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Tenth Division, commanded by Lieutonant-Goneral Sir Archibald Hunter, and not the Brigade (5th) commanded by Major-General Hart, is leaving Natal. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Italian Government has assured the Boer delegates that it will not intervene in the present struggle unless both combatants desired mediation. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe North German Lloyl Steamship Company is equipping the vessels of its Seat with Signor Marconi's wireless telegraphic apparatus. ...
Article : 33 wordsHer Majesty the Queen and H.R.H. the Duchess of York have congratulated the officer commanding H.M.S. Powerful upon the splendid services rendered by her ...
Article : 43 wordsKeuler's special war corrspondent writing to the "Cape Times" from Kimberley on February 28 says: I had an interesting interview with Mr. Schmidt, the owner and prop[?]cter of a large store ...
Article : 942 wordsMr. Fitzgerald has secured Wyld and Freedman's Company and the Palace biograph war pictures tor Australia. Tho Company has sailed for Australia ...
Article : 34 wordsLord Roberts has now received at Bloemfontein new boots and new khaki serge uniforms for his army. The work of concentrating stores at the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe British casualties to April 7 total 17,701, without including those at Roddersburg on April 4. Following are the details:— ...
Article : 101 wordsA sad disaster has occurred near Padstow, on the north coast of Cornwall. Two lifeboats while returning from a wrack were capsized and were smashed. ...
Article : 52 wordsIt is now recognised that the tentative leniency of Lord Roberts in dealing with the surrendered Free Staters was prudent, pending the arrival of remounts. ...
Article : 35 wordsIt is officially announced that no fresh purchases of forage will be made before October. ...
Article : 22 wordsKing Leopold of Belgium has presented the nation with the Royal Palaces at Laeken, Ostend, and Curgnon. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Premier (Mr. W. J. Lyne, M.L.A.), who was on a visit to Wallsend to-day, was anxious to return to Sydney by to-night's steamer in order that he might be able to arrange for the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe following casualties among the New South Wales troops are reported to have occurred in a recounaissance near Glen Camp on the Modder on March ...
Article : 76 wordsWe are still waiting for a strategiu movement to be commenced by Lord Roberts in the Orange Free State. The equipment and provisioning of the British army is proceeding, and what looks ...
Article : 1,218 wordsThe "Daily Mail" states that Mr. Armstrong, the husband of Madame Melba, has obtained a divorce in Texas, United States, on the ground of desertion. ...
Article : 32 wordsSince the fine weather commenced the conditions of the camp of the fourth contingent at Lytton have become much more pleasant, though the nights are now somewhat cold. In the horse lines everything ...
Article : 254 wordsThe annual conference of the Commercial Travellers' United Association opened this afternoon in the Commercial Travellers' Club. There were 19 delegates present, representing ...
Article : 154 wordsThe prisoners who were taken by Lord Methuen at Boshof, comprising Russians, Germans, Frenchmen, and three Dutchmen, will all go to St. Helena. ...
Article : 32 wordsMajor-General French, in company with his chief staff officer, Colonel H. D. Mackenzie, inspected D. E. and F squadrons of the Imperial Bushmen's Contingent yesterday morning at Rookwood. The ...
Article : 624 wordsThe Boers have expelled from the Transvaal Father Delacy, an ardent Johannesburg priest, for showing sympathy with British prisoners and for providing ...
Article : 40 wordsThe list of officers and men of the Bushmen's Contingent is now completed. Colonel Cairneroes, controller of stores, is hurrying up the contracto[?] who are supplying the equipment, and he is hopeful ...
Article : 54 wordsSir Charles Todd, in an interview to-day, stated that, immediately on the acceptance of the Eastern Extension Companys offer, the cable rates would be reduced to 4s per word on ordinary ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Transvaal Government and the committee of the belligerent Free Staters have protested to Portugal against permitting the debarkation of British troops ...
Article : 50 wordsTrooper F. H. Mausfield, of B squsdron of Roberts's Horse, writing from Koodosr and Drift, Orange Fres Stare, under date of February 28, to [?] friend in New South Wales, says:—"I have had ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 63 wordsThere are indications that if Portuguese East Africa is sttacked by the Boera and asks assistance from Great Britain Sir Redvers Buller will send troops to ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 14 Apr 1900, Page 9
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