The R.M.S. Ophir arrived at Adelaide from London shortly before 6 a.m. yesterday, and the mails for the eastern colonies were sent on by the Melbourne express. ...
Article : 3,241 wordsFurther details of the reconnaissance in which Captain Cameron's detachment of 50 Australian and Tasmanian Mounted Infantry were engaged on Friday near ...
Article : 278 wordsReinforcements continue to reach South Africa almost daily, and it is estimated by the War Office that by the end of the present month there will be on the fighting ...
Article : 86 wordsThe fate of the two war correspondents who went out with Captain Cameron's half, company of 50 on the reconnaissance near Colesberg which drew forth so strong and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,109 wordsFurther explanation has now been given of the circumstances which induced Sir Redvers Buller to withdraw his forces from the position he had won on the north side ...
Article : 197 wordsThe attitude assumed by Sir Edward Clarke, Q.C., Conservative M.P. for Plymouth and ex-Solicitor General, and by Dr. Gavin Brown Clark, Liberal M.P. for ...
Article : 159 wordsMajor-General the Hon. N. G. Lyttelton, commanding the Fourth Brigade, two of whose battalions, the 1st Rifle Brigade and the 1st Durham Light Infantry, had carried ...
Article : 173 wordsPresident Kruger, who closed Robinson's South African Bank, at Johannesburg, has now seized the premises and books, and transferred all the customers accounts to ...
Article : 93 wordsWhenever a "no confidence" motion is tabled a certain amount of doubt prevails as to how the voting is likely to go. Both sides are usually confident of success when ...
Article : 945 wordsA party of New South Wales mounted infantry, assisted by a squadron of Inniskilling Dragoons and some artillery, have been successfully engaged in clearing troops ...
Article : 70 wordsMajor-General Hutton, formerly military commandant of New South Wales, and now commandant of the Canada militia, has been recalled from that post by the War ...
Article : 44 wordsThe New South Wales battery of artillery, which recently arrived at Capetown in the steamer Warrigal, started on Sunday for the front. ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, special correspondent of the "Morning Post," reports that Sir Redvers Buller is apparently preparing for a fresh advance. The troops have ...
Article : 61 wordsLord Roberts, in further reply to the insolent joint message from Presidents Steyn and Kruger, characterising the British troops as "white brigands," has sent a ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Boers have followed up their success in repulsing General Buller's attempt to advance on Ladysmith via Potgieter's Drift, and have now crossed the Tugela to the ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Capetown correspondent of the "Times" declares that the more colonial troops are in the field in South Africa the better it will be for the Empire, as the ...
Article : 72 wordsMajor-General Lyttelton, who commands the Fourth Brigade, which seems to have advanced the furthest towards the Boer Position, after having carried the ...
Article : 991 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Rensburg reports that in the fight on Friday Captain Cameron's Tasmanians repelled the attacks which the Boers made ...
Article : 62 wordsA suggestion which shows how strongly the British people appreciate the patriotic loyalty of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and India in rallying to the military aid of ...
Article : 88 wordsDuring the course of the fighting which ended on Wednesday last Prince Christian Victor, eldest son of the Princess Helena, and a grandson of the Queen, had an ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Victorian Mounted Rifles, who supported the Tasmanians, were, the "Daily Mail" states, hotly engaged and retired on the British outposts under severe fire: but ...
Article : 47 wordsAnother desperate fight, in which a handful of Australian mounted men were attacked by a large body of Boers, has occurred near Slingersfontein, the British ...
Article : 305 wordsThe 40 Dutch Afrikander farmers who were taken prisoners in the Sunnyside larger by the Canadian and Queensland Mounted Rifles, under Colonel Pitcher, on ...
Article : 45 wordsA big Boer gun, of 6 inch calibre, and throwing a 100-lb. shell, has been bombarding Kimberley incessantly since the 7th inst. The Boers are increasing and advancing ...
Article : 108 wordsThe situation at Colesberg, where it was a week ago reported that General French had hemmed in 7000 Boers, cutting off their retreat to the Orange River by way of ...
Article : 115 wordsOne of the most disastrous fires that has ever occurred in Hong Kong took place last month. The particulars to hand by the E. and A. liner Airlie to-day show that the ...
Article : 68 wordsLord Roberts, who has arrived at the Modder-bridge position, where Lord Methuen is in command, accompanied by Lord Kitchener, after a visit of inspection ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Vickers-Maxim gun which the Boers had placed in position at Cole's Kop, near Colesberg, with which the New South Wales mounted infantry were recently ...
Article : 141 wordsThe wool sales were resumed to-day, after a lapse of several weeks. Of 8199 bales catalogued, only 4599 were sold at auction, but a quantity was quitted privately, so that the total sales were 7231 ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 13 Feb 1900, Page 5
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