Lieutenant-General Sir H. M. Rundle, with the Eighth Division, advancing from Reddersburg to the relief of Wepener, fought an artillery duel with the enemy ...
Article : 224 wordsThe federal delegates (Mr. E. Barton, Mr. A. Deakin, Mr. C. C. Kingston, Mr. J. R. Dickson, and Sir P. 0. Fysh) are returning to London, and will meet on ...
Article : 295 wordsThe severe censorship on news from the front is believed to indioate that Lord Roberts's forward movement has commenced. ...
Article : 38 wordsMembers of the Village Settlement Commission of South Australia arrived in Melbourne to-day They will inspeot the village settlements of Vietonia, noting the methods of working and their ...
Article : 201 wordsOn Friday 2000 Boers attacked portions of Lord Methuen's force in the direction of Boshof. The British detachment was protecting a convoy six miles long. The Boers were repulsed with heavy ...
Article : 6,618 wordsPrince Morgapf, a Circassian nobleman, was killed at Boshof at the same time as M. Yillebois de Mareuil met his death. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe steamor Surrey, from Buenes Ayres, with herses for South Africa, has arrived at Capetown. ...
Article : 22 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roborts's criticisms of his general officers have caused a sensation in Natal, where, however, his conclusions are endorsed. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe men of the New South Wales Contingents greatly appreciate the presents forwarded by Mr. F. H. Dangar, Lady Duff, and Lady Hampden. ...
Article : 33 wordsLord Roberts has inspected the Redcross section of the army now at Bloemfontein. ...
Article : 27 wordsAt the instance of Lady Tennyson, wife of the Governor of South Australia, her sister-in-law has appealed for funds to purehase winter clothing and comforts ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Boers who are besieging Wepener have been reinforced from Thaba'nchu. ...
Article : 20 wordsAn explosion occurred on Saturday afternoon on the steam launch Young Charlic whilst lying at Messrs. Dangar, Gedye, and Co.'s wharf, Woolloomooloo Say, which resulted in the complete ...
Article : 690 wordsThe cables report that the Boers in Swaziland are preparing to make a final resistance in Swaziland, and that the Swazls are reluctant to alford the slightest help. There can be little wonder at the ...
Article : 367 wordsMajor Robin has assured Mr. W. P. Reeves, Agent-General for New Zealand, that the members of the New Zealand Contingent are greatly cheered by the ...
Article : 71 wordsSir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett has visited the Queen of Swaziland and has urged her not to permit the defeated Boers to occupy the caves in the mountain ...
Article : 46 wordsFighting is still proceeding at Karee, north of the Modder River. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe shelling of the British position at Elandslaagte by the Boers from north of Sundays River was continued on Saturday. ...
Article : 28 wordsLieutenantant-General Lord Methuen, who, advancing from Boshof two weeks ago, occupied Zwartkopjesfontein, on the road to Hoopstad, was on Friday ordered ...
Article : 117 wordsPlainly enough, the Boera are very desirous of retaining the country they hold in the eastern and south-castern districts of the Orange Free Stnte. Their object in returuing towards Cape Colony ...
Article : 1,370 wordsThe prolonged inactivity of the British has made the Boers very venturesome. Disguised in khaki, several of the enemy have explored the camp of the ...
Article : 40 wordsAs everyone thought, Mr. Schalk Burger has been appointed the new Vice-Presidedt of the Trnsvaal. By the death of General Joubert, the late Commander-in-Chief of the Boer forces, it was only a ...
Article : 470 wordsDeserters from the enemy's forces in Natal declare that the hope that the Great Powers will intervene in the war.lone keeps tho Boera at the frout. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. E. Barton was a guest of the Press Club last night. In the course of a speech he said that when common action was needed the ...
Article : 116 wordsMilitary critics in the United States approve of the censure made by Lord Roberts on Sir Redvers Buller and Sir Charles Warren. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Boers report that they have 8000 men, with 15 guns, attacking Wepener. April 21. Further particulars have been received ...
Article : 134 wordsThere are instances of the Boers in Natal arming natives and compelling them to assist the commandos. ...
Article : 24 wordsMajor W. Babtie, M.B., C.M.G., of the Army Medical Service, has been awarded the Victoria Cross for having brought in the lste Lieutenant Roberts, V.O., son of ...
Article : 51 wordsDoctors report that many of the Boer killed proved to be women disguised as men. Several Boer women so disguised have ...
Article : 51 wordsA shocking fatality occurred at about 6a.m.on Saturday at the premires of the Freah Food and Ice Company, Limited, Darling Harbour, the victim being a young policeman named Frank Evana, aged ...
Article : 424 wordsThe Prince and the Princesa of Wales on their return journey from Copenhagen to England did not stay at Brussols. The Queen, in thanking the ...
Article : 102 wordsThe 14 men who were arrested at Johannesburg by Herr Epler and his police on a charge of conspiracy to destroy with dynamite the mines and machinery ...
Article : 124 wordsTho Porte has raised the Customs tariff of Turkey from 8 per cent, to 11 percent. The Porte believes that the Powers will yield in this matter. ...
Article : 86 wordsThis afternoon at about 2 o'clock the New South Wales Imperial Bushmen's Contingent, numbering 750 officers and men, for South Africa, wil proceed to embark on board the transport Armenian, lying at ...
Article : 1,634 wordsMr. Steyn, the ex-President of the Free State, is urging the Boers to prevent, at all costs, the British securing the rich grain distriota of Wepener, Ladybrand, ...
Article : 45 wordsAlthough the Victorian Amateur Athletic Association had only three days in which to work up a complimentary sports meeting to Stanley Rowley, the champion-sprinter of Australasia, the ...
Article : 418 wordsThree hundred troops from Nigeria have undertaken a long overland march to Ashanti in order to aid in quelling the rising of the tribes now investing Kumasi. ...
Article : 37 wordsNews from the front is scanty and contradictory. It is believed, however, that important operations are proceeding. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe relief force despatched from the coast, and consisting of 250 blue jackets and Haussas, has reached Kumasi, which was reported yesterday to be closely ...
Article : 52 wordsThe annual celebration of the eizht-hours movement in Victoria was held yesterday. It was dull but pleasant weather, and the eveut proved most successful. The time-honoured procession through ...
Article : 482 wordsGeneral Schalk Burger has been appointed Vice-President of the Transvaal, in succession to the late General Joubert. [At the last Presidential election General ...
Article : 46 wordsA local option poll on the question that no new licenses be granted was taken in Ipswich on Thursday to apply to The whole municipality. The reselution was carried by 225 votes to 62.No ...
Article : 69 wordsThe annual report of the Orient Steam Navigation Company Shows a profit for last year of £92,438. Of this sum £76,669 is carried to the reserve fund. A ...
Article : 52 wordsThe kindly impulse of the Emperor William in unexpea[?]ly journeying from. Berlin to Altoaa, in Schleswig Holstein, where he greeted the Prince ...
Article : 151 wordsThe natives are taking great interest in the technical schools, and three have already been established. About 40 buildings in Wellington have been ...
Article : 33 wordsThough the weather is now fine in the Orange Free State, the drifts ou account of flood waters are still impassable. It is this which is delaying the advance of ...
Article : 40 wordsInnocence, while engaged in a preliminary gallop for the last race at Tattersall's Cino Meeting at Victoria Park on Saturday, became unmanageable, collided with a post, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 110 wordsSeveral tramway aceidenta occurred in the city on Saturday night. Jumen Callan, a stoker, employed on Garden Island, slipped while getting off a car in George-street, and the wheen ...
Article : 94 wordsMajor-General G. T. Pretyman, who on the occupation of Bloemfontein was appointed Governor of the city, has now been appointed Governor of the whole of ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 23 Apr 1900, Page 7
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