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  2. DEBATES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

    When the division on Lord Fitzmaurice'a motion of censure on the Government was taken thirty-eighlt Government supporters were absent from the House of Commons. ...

    Article : 288 words
  3. COLONEL EAGAE.

    President Steyn has promised to release Lieutenant-Colonel H. A. Eager, of the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish. Rifles, as soon as he is able to travel Colonial Eagar was ...

    Article : 58 words
  4. A PATRIOTIC VICTORIAN.

    Mr. P. L. Russels, of Carngham, Victoria, has accepted a commission in the South Staffordshire Militia, and proceeds to South Africa on active service. ...

    Article : 33 words
  5. INVITATION TO WAVERERS.

    Field Marshal Lord Boberbs as of opinion that a considerable number of Boers, especially of the Free State, would be glad to lay down their arms if they could safely ...

    Article : 98 words
  6. SUPPLEMENTARY WAR ESTIMATES.

    In the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. George Wyndham, Under Secretary for War, introduced Supplementary War Estimates for £13,000,000 to provide for 120,000 ...

    Article : 70 words
  7. THE COLONIES' LOYALTY.

    The London "Spectator," in an article upon the spontaneous outburst of practical loyalty in Australia and Canada which hailed the intimation that Great Britain ...

    Article : 79 words
  8. THE COMMANDEERING OF KAFFIRS.

    The "Daily Chronicle" this morning comments on the fact that the. Boers have started to ann the blacks, and to require them to fight in their eritrencliments. It ...

    Article : 63 words
  9. AN AUSTRALIAN WAE CORRESPONDENT KILLED.

    Reuter s correspondent at Colesberg reports that in the fighting between Captain Cameron's reconnoitring party and the Boers in the vicinity of Cole's Kop, on ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 659 words
  10. LEGISLATORS CENSURED.

    The constituents of Sir Edward Clarke, Q.C., Conservative member in the House of Commons for Plymouth, have at public meetings severely censured him for ...

    Article : 88 words
  11. RELIEF FUNDS.

    The British Empire League last night gave a concert in the Albert Hall, the proceeds of which are to assist the widows and orphans of colonial troops killed in the war. ...

    Article : 97 words
  12. MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S INFLUENCE.

    One of the causes of rejoicing in France at recent reverses to British arms was due to the belief tbat they sounded the death knell to Mr. Chamberlain as a statesman. ...

    Article : 65 words
  13. SEIZURE OF A BANK.

    President Kruger has seized the properties in the Transvaal of the Robinson South African Banking Company, and has transferred all the customers' accounts to the ...

    Article : 55 words
  14. MR. REDMOND'S MOTION.

    The only members of the House of Commons who, along with the Irish Nationalists, supported Sir. John Redmond's motion condemning Great Britain for ...

    Article : 84 words
  15. THE TRANSPORT SERVICE.

    Complaints are being made that owing to scarcity of transports the Imperial Yeomanry volunteers are not being dispatched to South Africa so soon as the men had ...

    Article : 42 words
  16. REBEL DUTCHMEN ON TRIAL.

    The thirty-five rebellious Dutchmen who were recently captured in a Boer laager at bunuyside by a force of mounted Queenslanders and Canadians, have been charged ...

    Article : 48 words
  17. A NOTABLE DEMONSTRATION.

    Evidence is accumulating to show that the nation is sot only determined that the war shall be carried to a successful condusion, but will not tolerate any political ...

    Article : 130 words
  18. DESTRUCTION OF BRITISH PROPERTY.

    Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, in a second telegram to Presidents Kruger and Steyn, complains that the Boers, in their raids in Natal, have wantonly destroyed a large ...

    Article : 42 words
  19. CAPE YEOMANRY.

    Lord Roberts, as Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, has authorized the enrolment of aimed yeomanry throughout Cape Colony to provide protection for loyal ...

    Article : 31 words
  20. MESSAGE FROM SIR J. G. SPRIGG.

    Sir James Gordon Sprigg, Leader of the Opposition in the Cape Assembly, has sent a telegram to Mr. Chamberlain com pigmenting him on the overwhelming patriotic ...

    Article : 79 words
  21. LORD ROBERTS AT THE MODDER RIVER.

    Field Marshal Lord Roberts was accorded a most eutnusiastic reception on his arrival in Lord Methuen's camp on the northern bank of the Modder River. ...

    Article : 35 words
  22. LORD ROBERTS'S PROGRAMME.

    Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, who is at the Modder River, yesterday reviewed the Highland Brigade, which had returned from an arduous expedition to Koppies Dam, ...

    Article : 134 words
  23. AUSTRALIANS TO THE FORE.

    From the Australian Regiment at Enslin, under Colonel Hoad, 600 men have been provided with horses, and are reported to he shaping well as mounted infantry. They ...

    Article : 1,295 words
  24. FRENCH HATRED OF ENGLAND.

    Articles which have appeared in leading French newspapers during the last few days indicate that the prevalence of Anglophobia in France is largely traceable to ...

    Article : 145 words
  25. CASUALTIES TO AUSTRALIANS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 253 words
  26. PURCHASE OF HORSES.

    In order to keep pace with the mortality amongst the horses of the British forces in South Africa, the War Office has purchased in Hungary 5,000 horses of a stamp suitable ...

    Article : 41 words
  27. AUSTRALIAN LANCERS FOR AFRICA.

    The squadron of forty lancers and officers, new fully equipped men, who have been thoroughly tested at the Parramatta Camp, will fome to Sydney on Tuesday ...

    Article : 46 words
  28. MILITARY PREPARATIONS.

    At the Woolwich Arsenal 20,000 persons are engaged day and night in manufacturing munitions of war for dispatch to South Africa. ...

    Article : 74 words
  29. GENERAL CLERY INVALIDED.

    Major-General Sir Francis Clery, K.C.B., Professor of Tactics at Sandhurst, is returning to England invalided. He has been for several weeks in Natal discharging ...

    Article : 39 words
  30. AUSTRALIAN BUSHMEN'S FUND.

    The Anglo-Australian Bushmen's Fund, which was opened in London, now totals over £11,000. The more recent contributors are as follow:—Mr. James Dick, £500; ...

    Article : 88 words
  31. THE PROJECTED ADVANCE INTO THE FREE STATE.

    Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, after visiting General Gataere's headquarters at Sterkstroom, returned to De Aar, and proceeded northwards to the Modder River, where he ...

    Article : 91 words
  32. WHERE THE SHOE PINCHES.

    A proclamation issued by Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner in South Africa, intimating that the forfeiture of property, following upon heavy taxation levied by the ...

    Article : 53 words
  33. THE ENEMY'S GUNS.

    A secret memorandum, which has emanated from the Volksraad at Pretoria, contains the intelligence that prior to the outbreak of war the Boers were armed with ...

    Article : 65 words
  34. A PLUCKY VICTORIAN PICKET.

    A despatch from Colesberg states that a picket of five Victorian Mounted Rifles had a sharp tussle with the enemy a day or two ago. They defended a post at Rensburg ...

    Article : 101 words
  35. THE TASMANIAN CASUALTIES.

    His Excellency the Governor, Viscount Gornianston, has received the following cable message, dated February 11, from Sir Alfred Milner:—"I regret to report the ...

    Article : 97 words
  36. BOER RAID IN ZULULAND.

    A large commando of Boers have captured the Magistrate's Court and residence in the Nkandhla district of Zululand. Mr. J. L. Knight, the Magistrate, previoudy ...

    Article : 58 words
  37. THE BRITISH ARCHES.

    The British forces in South Africa are growing in strength almost daily. By the end of the current mouth the total number of the British and colonial soldiers at ...

    Article : 192 words
  38. TRAITORS AT MAFEKTNG.

    Lieutenant-Colonel Baden-Powell has mentioned in letters sent to England that during the siege of MaMdng be had taken no fewer than forty Fenians as prisoners on ...

    Article : 137 words
  39. THE ENEMY'S HORSES.

    A burgher, who has been taken prisoner by the British, states that so many of the Boers' horses have been killed that the authorities in the Republics have been ...

    Article : 46 words
  40. MR. LAMBIE'S DEATH.

    A cable message lias been received in Melbourne from South Africa confirming Reuter's announcement that Mr. W. J. Lambie, the war correspondent of the ...

    Article : 932 words
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