Information has reached the War Office that on April 29 some 10,000 rebellious Ashantees at Kumasi Fort, at the capital of Ashanti, surrounded ...
Article : 132 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts, in a cable to the War Office, states that the Canadian, New South Wales, and New Zealand Rifles, and the Queensland Mounted ...
Article : 153 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts wired to the War Office on Saturday from the Vet River that after shelling the enemy for three hours, Major-General Hutton's ...
Article : 103 wordsIt is understood at Bloomfontein that General Hamilton has occupied Winburg. Lord Roberts accompanied Lieutenant-General Pole Carew's division to the Vet River. The Boers were ...
Article : 7,317 wordsThe War Office has decided to form a volunteer reserve. ...
Article : 19 wordsTowards sunset 26 Western Australians crept towards the bed of the Vet River at the rear of the kopjes occupied by the Boers. The Colonial men fired a few ...
Article : 50 wordsThere is a strong impression in official circles in Capetown that Lord Roborts will advance rapidly on Pretoria. So far he cortainly is going straight to that capital. The force ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,468 wordsEield-Marshal Lord Roberts succeeded at Smaldeel in capturing a large amount of forage and railway material. The Boers are in full retreat to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 53 wordsThe rumour from Bloemfontein that Winburg had been captured has received confirmation. Information has now been received that Lieutenant-General I[?]n ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 wordsMr. John Murray, Minister for Railways, hopes to leave Brisbane to-morrow for the purpose of visiting the Nerang district. Possibly he will go on to Murwillumbah and Lismore. The ...
Article : 155 wordsLieutenant-General Sir Archibald Hunter, after crossing the Vaal River, sent Major-General Barton to dislodge 3000 Boers at the Klip Dam, Windsorton. ...
Article : 155 wordsInformation has reached the War Office that when Lieutenant-General Ian Hamilton succeeded in driving the Boers out of Winburg, he captured a Boer gun and a ...
Article : 35 wordsMrs. Drummond, of Miller-street, North Sydney, informs us that she has received a letter from the hospital at Kimberley to the following effort:— "The parcel you mentioned did reach the British ...
Article : 74 wordsThere is a strong impression in official circles at Capetown that Field-Marshal Lord Roberts will advance rapidly on Pretoria. ...
Article : 60 wordsWhen the British examined the railway line after the flight of the Boers they fouud stacks of packages containing high explosives placed every hundred yards ...
Article : 42 wordsFurther details of the Moreton Bay accident show that the boat, which has since been found, was a 10ft. dingy. Boucher helped Hinslewood into the boat after it capsized, lashing him to the ...
Article : 185 wordsOwing to the transport steamer by which the Queensland volunteers are goiug to South Africa, being detained in dock in Sydney, the northern volunteers will come by train to this port. Last ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Prince of Wales reviewed the contingent of bluejackets and marines from H.M.S. Powerful (who took such a prominent part in the defence of ...
Article : 54 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts, from a kopje at Karee heliographed instructions to his generals so as to co-ordinate their movements on the enemy. Four ...
Article : 232 wordsA cable message was received to-day by the Lieutenant-Governor from Sir Alfred Milner, giving the following particulars of further casualties which had befallen members of the first and second Victorian ...
Article : 198 wordsLieutenant- General Sir Archibald Hunter, who crossed the Vaal River at Windsorton, has 10,000 men under his command. The force includes many of ...
Article : 35 wordsLieutenant-General Sir H. M. Kundle is pursuing towards Brandspruit the Boers who were at Thaba'nchu. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Railway Department is removing the sheep and cattle from the drought-stricken districts as quickly as possible. Last week on the Central railway no less than 25,000 head were removed. ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Ceylon "Times" states that the Imperial War Office has chosen a healthy site in Ceylon, with a view to the imprisonment of Boer prisoners there. ...
Article : 40 wordsLieutenant Lilley, of the Victorian Mounted Infantry, who was wounded at Houtnek on April 30 and taken prisoner, was carefully tended by the Netherlands ...
Article : 48 wordsThe postal authorities intimate, in connection with the transmission of telegrams to colonial troops in South Africa, that in order to facilitate "packing" and avoid confusion, the addresses of messages must ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Boers are fortifying and provisioning Lydenburg, 144 miles east north-east of Pretoria, as a new capital. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Boers are rapidly leaving Natal. It is estimated that about 5000 will confront General Sir Redvers Buller. ...
Article : 25 wordsAt an auction sale to-day of gas shares, part of the property in the estate of the late Hon. James Gibbon, 560 Brisbane gas shares averaged about £10 10s, while 1005 Warwick gas shares sold at ...
Article : 120 wordsA Cape trooper named Smythe was intercepted and disarmed by Boers at Donkerpoort. His captors told him to go, and when he did so shot him through the ...
Article : 66 wordsCorporal S. C. Fuller, serving with the Australian Horse, writes from Bloemfoutein to his brothen, Mr. W. R. Fuller, of Kadma, in the Parkes district, uuder date March 17, as follows:—"We are now camped ...
Article : 857 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3½d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 15 wordsA wharf labourer named Cottrell, living at Port Adelaide, who had been working on the steamer Wilcannia, which arrived from Sydney last Monday, was taken ill on Wednesday. Thisevenniga doctor who was ...
Article : 86 wordsTrooper G. Whittington, of the N.S.W. Lancers, and Milverton J. Ford, shoeing smith of the New South Wales First Australian Horse, who were ...
Article : 91 wordsLast week, on arrival at Melbourne, the captain of the barque Benares reported receiving a signal from the barque Oakhurst that he had had trouble with her ...
Article : 426 wordsMajor-General Hutton found the enemy with two long range and four other guns strongly holding the passage across the Vet River. The 84th and 85th batteries ...
Article : 188 wordsThe South Australian "Register's" Patriotic Shilling Fund was practically closed on Friday, when the sum of £10,000 was slightly exceeded, the actual figures in shillings being 200,626. ...
Article : 33 wordsA man named Orange, 60 years of age, left his farm (in an isolated place 30 miles from Beverley) in December last with two horses and a dray loaded with wheat for Beverley flour mills, 40 ...
Article : 93 wordsThe wound sustained by Lieutenant Lilley, of the Victorian Mounted Infantry, who was with Lieutenant-General Hamilton's forces at Houtnek on April ...
Article : 51 wordsIt is said that the Boers are proposing to make a new capital in the Transvaul, and it is to be at Lydenburg, in the district of Lydouburg, to the north-east of Pretotia, and about 20 miles away from ...
Article : 449 wordsNominations for the Hobart seat in the House of Assembly, rendered vacant by the retirement of Captain E. T. Miles, were received to-day. They were Mr. Davenport Hoggins, former ...
Article : 117 wordsPrivate Fahey, of the New Zealand Mounted Infautry, was dangerously wounded on Monday at Thaba'nchu. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 107 wordsMr. W. T. Stead accompanied the Boor delegates, Messrs. Fischer, Wolmarans, and Wessels, on the journey through the Channel for Boulogne. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 8 May 1900, Page 5
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