The troopships will be well prepared for departure on Wednesday. The Surrey is at present in dock, but all three vessels will go alongside at Woolloomooloo Bay early on the day of departure, if not ...
Article : 874 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller advanced upon Springfield (18 miles west of Colenso and 25 miles south-west of Ladysmith), on the Little Tugela ...
Article : 186 wordsMr. J. F. Hoffmon, member of the Cape Assembly for De Aar, will probably be tried by Court-martial for acting on the medical staff of the Boers. ...
Article : 45 wordsSignor Ruggieri, the well-known African traveller, declares that tho Boer army numbers 80,000 men. ...
Article : 21 wordsThere will be a final selection of men for the Army Medical Corps and the Mounted Bearer Section to-day. On Saturday there were steady drilling and general fixing-up of kit and ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Rand goldfields have been laid with mines to provide against attack by the British forces. ...
Article : 24 wordsA special series of divine services took place yesterday for the membere of the contingent about to leave for South Africa. About 600 rank and file moved from the camps early in the afternoon, and in ...
Article : 545 wordsThe resent disaster sustained by four companies of the 1st battalion of the Suffolk Regiment when advancing upon a strong Boers position on a hill some ...
Article : 66 wordsEnglishmen in the Orange Free State are being commandeered by the authorities, and in consequence many of them have fied to Basutoland. ...
Article : 30 wordsMore volunteers for the Australian Bush Contingent were freely offering on Saturday at the recruiting office, 6 Spring-street Mr. J. M. Atkinson, the hon. secretary of the organisation, also ...
Article : 620 wordsThe intelligence comes through that Johannesburg is mined, and as there is a great supply of dynamite in the hands of the enemy the famous gold city no doubt has been well looked after in the way of ...
Article : 220 wordsThe German Government has requested Herr Krupp to cease supplying the belligerents with cannon from his works at Essen. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe "Spectator " urges the doubling of the shifts at, every arsenal and shipyard, the placing of contracts with private firms at home and abroad, the ...
Article : 75 wordsFive hundred of the Lord Mayores London Volunteers have received the freedom of the City at the Guild Hall. They attended a service at St. Paul's Cathedral, ...
Article : 157 wordsThe young people connected with St. Luke's Presbyterian Church, Redforn, on Wednesday evening last gave a farewell social to Corporal Sam C. Fuller, 1st Australian Horse, prior to his departure ...
Article : 720 wordsA great pro—British demonstration has taken place in the Greek Chambor of Deputies. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe offer made by Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner for Canada, to equip a corps of 400 roughriders from the north-west of Canada for service in South ...
Article : 47 wordsThe offer of the Ceylon Government to provide a corps of mounted rifles numbering 125 men for service in South Africa has been accepted. ...
Article : 32 wordsAn exceedingly large crowd gathered in College-street and Hyde Park, in the neighbourhood of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral, yesterday afternoon to view the arrival on church ...
Article : 1,011 wordsIt is officially announced by the War Office that at the recent battle at Ladysmith the British casualties were as follows:- ...
Article : 140 wordsA wing of Hopetoun House, Queensberry, Linlithgowshire, the country residence of the Earl of Hopetoun, has been devoted to the use of wounded Scottish ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Earl of Donoughmore has raised a force of 250 mounted gentlemen, who are providing themselves with all equipment. ...
Article : 26 wordsTasmania's available military resources are necessarily limited, but the patriotism of her citizens is not. The idea of sending Australian bushmen to the front seized on the people of the island colony ...
Article : 316 wordsGreat Britain's decision, that food stuffs on neutral ships destined for neutral ports are not liable to be seized as contraband of war, does not apply to tinned meats ...
Article : 49 wordsAll the Unionist newspapers continue to assail the Government with regard to its war policy in South Africa. The "Morning Post " demands the dismissal ...
Article : 103 wordsOn Saturday the Australian Horse were taken out for a couple of hours manoeuvring about Centennial Park. They had mounted and dismounted drill of all kinds, they charged up hills and into miniature ...
Article : 817 wordsA Reuter's message from Calcutta states that the Indian Government is likely to take measures against the Maharajah Holkar of Indore, who is at variance with ...
Article : 38 wordsAdvices from Ladysmith state that bread and meat of good quality are in plentiful supply. ...
Article : 22 wordsIn the course of an address at Sherbrooke, Quebec, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian Premier, said that the movement for the despatch of volunteers to South ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Emporor of Germany is taking measures with a view to the assembling of an international conference in favour of the drawing up of a convention on ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. H. D. L. Woods, captain of the Manly Cricket Club, lance-corporal in the Australian Horse, bound for the war on Weduesdsy, was tendered a farewell in the form of a supper, at the schoolroom, ...
Article : 510 wordsMajor-General French is strongly encamped on the enemy's eastern flank near Colesberg. The enemy attempted to eject the British from their position, but ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Mr. See) has been making further inquiries with regard to the feeding of the men in camp. No complaints have reached him from the men, and from his own observation he ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Imperial Parliament has been summoned to meet for the despatch of business on the 30th instant. ...
Article : 25 wordsA "Gazette" proclaiming that the Government offices will be closed at noon on Wednesday was issued on Saturday. It is notified that the Government offices will be ...
Article : 54 wordsFurther particulars have been received about the betrayal of General Sir William Gatacre's force at Stormberg last month. It is stated that the guide who had led ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Channel Squadron has been ordered to be ready for sea on tho 31st instant. It will be sent to Gibraltar to relieve the Particular Service Squadron, which ...
Article : 40 wordsIn then annual review Messrs. Woddel and Co., meat importers, anticipate a fair demand for frozen meat during the present year, at about last year's values, ...
Article : 66 wordsOur Parramatta correspondent writes:—A Parramatta lady has just received a communication from a relative who went to South Africa with the Medical Corps, and in it he expresses ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Tugela River is just now in flood. One heavy rainfall is often sufficient to produce a dangerous fresh in this remarkable stream. Its waters, however, are known to subside as quickly ...
Article : 1,613 wordsMrs. F. J.Waller, of Parramatta, has been very busy superintending the receiving and packing of a large number of hospital garments to go with the Medical Corps on Wednesday. Ladies from all parts of the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe death is announced of the Rev. James Martineau, DD. LL.D., the eminent divine, at the age of 94. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe South Brisbane Fire Brigade received a call from Geddes and Birt's wharf last evening to a fire that had broken out on the steamer Maori King, which vessel leaves with the Queensland ...
Article : 378 wordsThe upper pontoon bridge, which is being thrown across the Modder River to facilitate the advance of the British division under Lieutenant-General Lord ...
Article : 65 wordsAt the Plumpton January Steeplechase Heeting yesterday, the Australian crosscountry horse Ebor was successful, as undor:- ...
Article : 66 wordsAt yesterday's evening service of the Australian Church, in the I.O.O.F. Temple, the Rev. George Walters took for his subject, "Where are the Angels?" After a laudatory reference to the work of Miss ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Mayoress, Lady Harris, is of opinion that in the farewell demonstrations one section of the volunteers proceeding to the Cape has been overlooked, namely, the nurses. Want of ...
Article : 88 wordsVery impressive were the services held at Centenary Hall, York-street, yesterday afternoon, which were attended by members of the Mounted Infantry. They were escorted to the rendezvous ...
Article : 962 wordsThe Mayoress of North Sydney (Mrs. J. M. Purves) has determined to undertakes the making of nightingale jackets for the use and comfort of the troops in the Transvaal. She has secured the hearty ...
Article : 60 wordsIn the recent sortie from Mafeking Captain Vernon (Rifle Brigade) and Lieutenant Paton(South Wales Borderers) were killed. They died in the act of ...
Article : 44 wordsAn animated scene was presented on the Randwick-road on Saturday when a large section of the second contingent marched with their horses from their late camp to their new quarters. Each trooper ...
Article : 215 wordsThe encampment at Randwick was shorn of most of its attraction on Saturday, when, following on the heels of the Australian Horse, the Mounted Infantry moved away to the euclosure of the Royal ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 15 Jan 1900, Page 7
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