The Water Bill of the late Government did not settle the water supply question it did not even attempt to settle it. Although Parliament has relieved the various ...
Article : 1,808 wordsDuring the visit of the federal delegates and their lady friends to Windsor Castle on Tuesday her Majesty was most gracious in her manner. ...
Article : 138 wordsThe death is announced of General Joubert the Boer commander in chief. This event took place quite unexpectedly on the night of Tuesday last. It was due to ...
Article : 191 wordsThere are neither traces nor tidings as yet of any of the missing passengers or crew of the wrecked steamer Glenelg. The steamer Charlotte Fenwick put out at 4 a.m. to-day ...
Article : 1,445 wordsThe appointment of the staff officers for the Victorian Battalion of the Imperial Brigade has not yet been made. The staff will consist of lieutenant-colonel, major, ...
Article : 194 wordsIn spite of all precautions against the escape of Boer prisoners confined near Simon's Town, two more have succeeded in eluding the guards and making good their escape. ...
Article : 39 wordsCaptain T. M. M'Inerney is reported as having completely recovered from, his wound. [Captain M'Inerney was wounded and ...
Article : 36 wordsIn General Joubert's case the term "slim" had not the evil sense with which the word has become associated in British ears. "Slim Piet" was the name by which ...
Article : 432 wordsIt is still extremely difficult to determine how many persons in all were on board the Glenelg. Several fresh names have been mentioned as those of passengers, and it is ...
Article : 519 wordsAn unwarranted hardship has been imposed upon some of the candidates for controlment in the Australian Imperial Contingent by the decision that no one will be ...
Article : 553 wordsMr. Michael Davitt, a prominent Irish home ruler and M.P. for South Mayo till last year, when he resigned, has arrived at Delagoa Bay. ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has replied to the memorandum drafted by the Australian federal delegates, in which they replied to the criticisms ...
Article : 237 wordsLieutenant M. E. Lindsay, of the New Zealand, defence force, has been gazetted "a second lieutenant in the 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards, one of the ...
Article : 45 wordsA body of Boors, 400 strong, is reported to be threatening the railway line near Jacobsdal. [There are two Jacobsdal, one 10 miles ...
Article : 69 wordsThe reply sent by the Czar to the request of Presidents Kruger and Steyn to Russia to intervene on behalf of the Boer Republics is published. ...
Article : 209 wordsThe rebels in the Prieska district, who were incited to rebel by the support of the Boers and rebels, from Griqualand, West, have been dispersed. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe rebels from the Kenhardt and Gordonia districts, on either side of the Orange, are reported to have assembled in the neighborhood of Upington the chief town ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. Seddon, the Premier of New Zealand, has notified Mr. Chamberlain that Mr. W. P. Reeves has been appointed delegate to represent that colony in ...
Article : 152 wordsNews from Pretoria announces that President Kruger has decided to take the field in person, and will assume the command in chief of the Boer forces. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 456 wordsIn order to discredit the British the Transvaalers are looking the Free State farms wherever possible, and are attributing this to the British. This proceeding is to ...
Article : 60 wordsPresident Kruger is taking steps to make good his threat to blow up Johannesburg and the Rand mines rather than they should fall uninjured into the hands of the British. ...
Article : 81 wordsIt has been decided to shift the military camp from the Kensington racecourse on Saturday next, but the new site has not yet been definitely decided upon. It will ...
Article : 188 wordsUnder pressure from Great Britain, the Portuguese authorities at Delagoa Bay are awakening to a sense of their responsibilities as a neutral. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph," which had stated, that there were 20,000 Boers along the line of the Drakensberg mountains in readiness to defend the passes ...
Article : 74 wordsThe correspondence between the United States and the various powers, with the view of coming to an agreement to maintain the "open door" in China, has been ...
Article : 139 wordsMr. Barton, of Ocean-grove, has made a thorough search of the beach 6 miles west towards Port Albert, and has also traversed the same distance east. He found no trace ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Transvaalers in the north of Natal are continuing to wantonly destroy valuable property. The small township of Pomeroy, in front of the Biggarsberg position, was ...
Article : 88 wordsGeneral Pietrus Jacobus Joubert, vice President of the South African Republic, and Commander in Chief of the Boer army, was born in 1831. The more notable ...
Article : 665 wordsAt Dronfield, to the north of Kimberley, 73 cases of dynamite have been found concealed in a grave Major-General Clements has found a 9-pounder gun and a Maxim in ...
Article : 65 wordsThe death is announced of Count Benedetti, who was French ambassador to the Court of Berlin in 1870, and whose famous interview with King William of Prussia, at ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Customs department considers that all that can be done in the way of searching for traces of the missing boat or crew of the Glenelg can be accomplished by the ...
Article : 112 wordsThe South Australian Government has announced a now loan of £1,000,000, bearing interest at 3 per cent. The minimum has been fixed at £94 10. The list will close ...
Article : 351 wordsNews has been received from Colonel Baden-Powell as late as, 20th March. On that date Mafeking was still safe. ...
Article : 36 wordsSir Alfred Milner, Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner for South Africa, Who recently went from Capetown to Bloemfontein, to discuss with Lord Roberts ...
Article : 75 wordsThere is much doubt concerning the movements of the Boers known to be in the eastern central district of the Free State along the Basuto border. ...
Article : 162 wordsSir,--After the noble response of your readers to the many appeals made to them this year, one is reluctant to make still one more. But the tragic event abovemcntioned ...
Article : 239 wordsThe Queen's Bench Division has fined the Birmingham "Argus" £100 for publishing an article in abuse of Mr. Justice Darling for having, from the bench, issued a general ...
Article : 55 wordsThe provisional selection of candidates for inclusion in the Victorian, section of the Australian Imperial Contingent was practically concluded yesterday with the ...
Article : 191 wordsOwing to the renewed activity of the Griqualand West rebels, a strong column, composed of Imperial Yeomanry, has started for Griquatown, 92 miles east from ...
Article : 88 wordsIn accordance with her Majesty's decision that after a certain length of service colonial politicians may be allowed to retain for life the title of "Honorable," to be recognised ...
Article : 94 wordsAt the meeting of the North Melbourne branch of the A.N.A. last evening, a letter was received from the secretary of the metropolitan committee stating that Mr. W. A. Watt's seat as a ...
Article : 180 wordsA railway accident, unfortunately attended with loss of life, has taken place at Glasgow. A workman's train, following another, collided with it in a tunnel, the ...
Article : 49 wordsCommandant Prinsloo, who commanded in chief the Free State forces in the earlier part of the present war, has been arrested by the Transvaalers. The offence alleged ...
Article : 86 wordsLady Brassey, who left the yacht Sunbeam at Colombo to join the mail steamer, has arrived in London. ...
Article : 26 wordsMajor-General Clements, who is marching through the south-west Free State from Norval's Pont to Bloemfontein, via Philippolis ...
Article : 74 wordsColonel Bingham mentioned yesterday that the Government would probably be asked to allow the 200 men who will be rejected from those provisionally selected for ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 30 Mar 1900, Page 5
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