At Abraham's Kraal, the point selected for the Boer concentration on the Modder, 34 miles west of Bloemfontein, there are now in position some 5000 men, partly from ...
Article : 159 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced the financial proposals of the Government for providing for the ...
Article : 173 wordsAmong the captures made by the British at Bulwana, when the heavy and accurate fire of the naval guns prevented the Boers from being able to retire one of their ...
Article : 80 wordsThe 10 nurses selected to proceed to South Africa with the Bushmen's Corps on Saturday are to be entertained on Friday by Janet Lady Clarke at Cliveden. After ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Commissioner of Police has arranged to send back to Sydney two men, Arthur Stevens and William O'Shea, who were found on board the troopship Atlantian, in ...
Article : 74 wordsThe complaint of an alleged scarcity in the colony of horses suitable for military purposes in South Africa is held here to be unjustified, the prevailing opinion being ...
Article : 547 wordsStawell is likely to be strongly represented in the Australian Imperial Contingent. A number of civilians have already sent in applications, and at the parade of the local ...
Article : 100 wordsA return has now been made by General Sir Redvers Buller of the losses the force under his command sustained during the operations, lasting from 14th February to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 644 wordsThe sailing of the steamer Gymeric, with a portion of the fourth contingent, has been deferred until about the 24th inst. She will sail from Dunedin, and take about 250 men ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 74 wordsSir Michael Hicks-Beach, after stating his financial proposals, declared that the Government adhered to the statement made in October last year with respect to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 134 wordsRensburg, Tuesday, 6th February.--It was expected that the Australians would smell powder as soon as they moved about this locality. The New South Wales Company ...
Article : 1,041 wordsBrigadier-General Brabant, in command of the Colonial (Cape) Brigade, has been completely successful in his attack on the Boer positions near Dordrecht, having ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Transvaal Boers, who were lately besieging Ladysmith, and then retired so hurriedly as to leave a vast quantity of nition and stores behind when General Sir ...
Article : 62 wordsLord Roberts is about Osfontein, 6 miles eastwards from Paardeberg; He lias surrounded the Boers, who are estimated at 4000 strong, and has completely isolated them from their friends, on the north side of the river.,The.country on both hanks of the Modder is very suitable for operations of regulars. On the north bank General French, with a cavalry brigade and an infantry division, is holding a Boer commando from 2000 to 3000 strong, and the country is so suitable for cavalry work that the enemy can hardly escape. . ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 167 wordsSir Alfred Milner, the High Commissioner for South Africa and Governor of Cape Colony, has issued a notification proclaiming the following Dutch districts of Cape ...
Article : 70 wordsPresident Kruger has left Pretoria for Bloemfontein in order to be nearer the front, so as to encourage, by his presence, the Republican forces. He has issued a fervent ...
Article : 62 wordsA strong British column has left Kimberley, proceeding northwards, towards the Vaal. It is expedited that the enemy will be found at Fourteen Streams, on the north ...
Article : 90 wordsIn order to anticipate the extra duties which it was supposed the Government intends to impose in order to meet the war expenditure many merchants made ...
Article : 57 wordsMessrs. Arnall and Jackson, of 478 Collins-street, have sent us a copy of a political map of Cape Colony, compiled by Mr. W. J. Clutterbuck, late of the Cape ...
Article : 131 wordsLord Roberts, with Kelly-Kenny's 6th and Tucker's 7th divisions, and the Mounted Infantry, is now in position on the south side of the Modder River. ...
Article : 56 wordsAlthough it is unlikely that Sir Michael Hicks-Beach's war budget proposals will be seriously opposed, they are criticised by several leading London papers. ...
Article : 59 wordsSir,--I am raising a corps of gentleman scouts, and am anxious for it to be known that those anxious to serve their Queen may have the opportunity. To make the ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Boer force which was opposing Lieutenant-Colonel Plumer's attempts to advance from Gaberones, 90 miles to the north, towards Mafeking, evacuated Crocodile Pools, ...
Article : 108 wordsLieutenant-General French, who, with his cavalry, is holding a body of Boers estimated to be about 7000 strong till Lord Roberts decides upon the best time to ...
Article : 146 wordsThe mobilisation has been ordered and begun of a powerful reserve fleet. The place selected for concentration is Torbay. [The Reserve Squadron is composed of ...
Article : 93 wordsOn Saturday night the miners made a great demonstration, in celebration of the British military successes. The Union Jack was carried at the head of a procession. ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Government has decided that the whole of the commissioned officers for the Bushmen's Corps shall receive the same rate of pay and field allowance, and the pay is ...
Article : 61 wordsAdvices from, Mafeking have been received to date 19th February. Colonel Baden-Powell states that the Boers besieging the town are using natives, Germans ...
Article : 100 wordsHis Imperial Majesty the Mikado of Japan has telegraphed his congratulations to Queen Victoria on the victories won in South Africa by her Majesty's army. ...
Article : 31 wordsLord (formerly Sir Julian) Pauncefote, who has been so long at Washington, both as envoy and as ambassador, and has done so much to promote a better feeling and ...
Article : 54 wordsThe force now present with Lord Roberts, or within immediate call, is estimated at nearly 60,000. In addition to this great number, Lord Roberts is constantly ...
Article : 97 wordsAt yesterday's meeting of the Wesleyan Conference the secretary (Mr. J. Robin) said the following reply had been received to the conference's request that the Rev. ...
Article : 307 wordsLord Roberts has another little job before him which, 1 fully expect, will end as auspiciously as that at Paardeberg and Koodoosrand. He reports having ...
Article : 524 wordsM. Delcasse, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and M. Ribot, a former Foreign Minister, in speeches delivered at Paris, strongly deprecate the Anglophobia ...
Article : 97 wordsThe following motion was agreed to at this morning's special meeting of the Presbyterian general assembly:--This assembly desires to express its gratitude to ...
Article : 110 wordsSir George White, though his garrison was much enfeebled by privation and short rations, did not allow the besiegers of Ladysmith to take their departure unmolested. ...
Article : 177 wordsSome of the Boers who were taken prisoners upon General Cronje's surrender have given a good deal of trouble on the railway journey to Capetown. A good ...
Article : 63 wordsThe troopship Maplemore did not arrive at Port Adelaide wharf till 3.30 p.m. to-day. She was expected much earlier, and it had been arranged that the South ...
Article : 347 wordsThe cablegram published on Monday in reference to the request of the Imperial Government for the despatch of 2000 bushmen mentioned the rates of pay if the men ...
Article : 368 wordsArrived.--Johannesburg, steamer, from Melbourne 30th December; Gulf of Martaban, steamer, from Brisbane 9th December; Josefa, barque, from Fremantle 17th ...
Article : 54 wordsFurther British successes in the north of Cape Colony are reported. Reuter's correspondent with Lieutenant-General Sir W. F. Gataere telegraphs that the body of ...
Article : 76 wordsThe expert board appointed to examine the equipment supplied to the Bushmen's Corps found fault with the first batch of saddles manufactured by Mr. Oaten, on the ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 7 Mar 1900, Page 7
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