Details of the engagement in which a commando, comprised chiefly of French and German mercenaries, under Colonel Villebois de Mareuil, the French strategist, was ...
Article : 192 wordsAn official despatch from Lord Roberts, published by the War Office, reports that his main column, after crossing the Vaal River on Sunday at Vereeniging, marched ...
Article : 298 wordsAt Newcastle, General Buffer's head quarters in northern Natal, 40 Dutch Afrikander colonists who joined the Boers when the latter invaded Natal, surrendered ...
Article : 70 wordsThe relentless pursuit of Lord Roberts has shaken the morale of the Boors. Their attitude and tone are very different now from what they were in early October of ...
Article : 853 wordsTelegrams from the expeditions sent to America, Algiers, Spain and Portugal by the British Astronomical Society to observe the total solar eclipse, partial only in ...
Article : 816 wordsMr. W. A. Holman, M.L.A. for Grenfell, has been falling foul of his constituents in consequence of his pro-Boer utterances, and last night he faced them with an ...
Article : 132 wordsMajor General Hildyard, whose infantry brigade was the first to enter Newcastle, which the Boers had held from almost the commencement of the war, anticipating ...
Article : 72 wordsSeventeen invalided soldiers arrived this morning by the steamer Moravian, and received a most enthusiastic welcome. A company of the Third Contingent was ...
Article : 622 wordsTelegrams from Natal state that, though the Free State commandoes at Harrismith and Vrede were reported to have disbanded and gone home, the Boers stiff hold Moller's ...
Article : 82 wordsGeneral Sir Leslie Rundle, who captured Clocolan, on the Basuto land frontier, north of Ladybrand, two days ago, has been able to avenge an act of cowardly treachery ...
Article : 208 wordsThe pluck and endurance shown by General Ian Hamilton's division of Lord Roberts's army in the invasion of the Transvaal are declared by the war correspondents to ...
Article : 104 wordsGenera Buller reports that the Boer forces holding a semicircular line of entrenched mounted positions, extending from Laing s Nek eastward to Vryheid, have ...
Article : 100 wordsReports from Pretoria state that Lord Roberts, after crossing the Vaal River at Vereeniging, despatched a column northeastwards to seize the railway which ...
Article : 60 wordsThe bazaar organised at Kensington in aid of the families of the soldiers wounded in South Africa, the stallholders of which included members of the royal and many ...
Article : 46 wordsMajor-General Powell's general report on the siege of Mafeking, which commenced 14th October, 1899, and was terminated by Colonel Mahon's relief column on 18th May, ...
Article : 182 wordsIt will he remembered that one of the first Australians to fall in the present war was the late Midshipman Huddart, of the Doris, who was killed at the battle of ...
Article : 473 wordsThe Western Australians missed the Boers at Klip River station, just a mile south of where the Klip crosses the line. The station is 21 miles from Viljoen's Drift. Generals French and Ian Hamilton have moved along the road leading from Lindique's Drift to the Klip Rivers Berg, and, judging from the sound of firing, were engaged at a point a little west of the road, and between the hill on the north and the place where a branch road runs towards Vereeniging. The south end of the Gatsrand is 14 miles ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 131 wordsLieutenant M'Kellar, of the New South Wales military forces, has been transferred to the 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards, now on service in South Africa, but ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Boer position about Laing's Nek is said to extend in a curve from Majuba to Pogwani Hill, and on to Vryheid, a distance of nearly 60 miles. Pogwani Hill was occupied to deny the valley of the Bulfalo to General Buller, who would naturally move up it to turn the defence of Laing's Nek. What the Boens here will do next depends on ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 108 wordsWhen the official news of the relief of Mafeking reached Melbourne his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor sent a message of congratulation to Lord Roberts, ...
Article : 315 wordsThe four South Australian invalids from South Africa, Privates Parsons, Nixon, Collins and Bothe, who landed in Melbourne on Friday last from the Moravian, reached ...
Article : 414 wordsMr. Russell, the Government Astronomer of New South Wales, makes the following remarks on the solar eclipse news cabled from London:--"The corona is the brightly ...
Article : 236 wordsIt is reported at Pretoria, where the Transvaal leaders were lately said to be undecided whether to flee to Lydenburg, in the north eastern mountains, or to ...
Article : 107 wordsAlthough it is reported in this morning's cables that the Boers intend at all risks to stand on the line of the Gatsrand, near Potchefstroom, it looks very doubtful if ...
Article : 1,137 wordsUpon the declaration of peace in South Africa festivities of various kinds will be indulged in here. At a meeting in the mechanics' hall a committee was formed to ...
Article : 57 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day. Mr. Moorhead moved that Mr. Robson be heard in explanation of the statements reflecting on the character of the House reported to ...
Article : 347 wordsA state of panic prevails in Pretoria, where Lord Roberts's rapid and increasing advance and overwhelming success have paralysed the Boer officials and leaders. ...
Article : 253 wordsThe Orange Free State having been now practically subdued, the British Government has given practical effect to its announced policy by proclaiming yesterday ...
Article : 235 wordsAn experiment was yesterday made by the order of the Admiralty, off Selsey Bill, on the coast of Sussex, near Chichester, to test a once the destructive force of the ...
Article : 220 wordsThe transport steamer Armenian, which left Sydney on 24th April with the New South Wales section of the Imperial Australian contingent, has arrived at Beira, ...
Article : 45 wordsArrived.--Castleholme, barque, from Kingston (S. A.), 8th January; Old Kensington, ship, from Sydney, 19th January; Rangatiri, steamer, from Wellington, 5th ...
Article : 78 wordsThis evening about 200 members of the 5th Batthlion paraded in the orderly room for the purpose of holding a memorial service in connection with the death of Private ...
Article : 189 wordsField Marshal Lord Roberts, in a despatch referring to the relief of Mafeking, warmly praises the splendid marching qualities of the contingent of Queensland ...
Article : 64 wordsPeninsular left Colombo for Australia 27th. Gera arrived Colombo from Australia 28th, a.m. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe magistrates of St. Heliers, in the island of Jersey, while sending to gaol without the option of a fine the ringleaders of the rioters who on Mafeking day wrecked ...
Article : 127 wordsReceived by Messrs. John Sanderson and Co.:-- London, 25th May:--The sales have closed weak and irregular. As compared with opening rates we quote crossbred greasy (best sorts) and good ...
Article : 137 wordsThe postal facilities in South Africa are evidently capable of improvement. Private Owen Cambridge, of the First Victorian Contingent, writing from Bloemfontein on ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 30 May 1900, Page 7
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