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Article : 319 wordsMrs. F, W. Vasey, of Stanhope, Lornestreet. Readimg, has received a long lettar from her brother, the Rev. J. G. Locke a Wesleyan minister, who was born, and has ...
Article : 836 wordsThe Right Hon. W. St. John Brodrjck, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, ap Baking at Portemouth yesterday, declared that ISO war bad ever been conducted with ao ...
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Article : 117 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has bestowed the Victoria Crow upon Major Edmund John Phipps-Hornby for distinguished valour in defending the guns in the ambuscade of & ...
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Article : 72 wordsGeneral Lord Methuen has, at his own expense, erected a tomb for the remains of the late Colonel de Ville[?] Mareuil, the French strategist, who was slain whilst ...
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Article : 142 wordsMr. J. F. Waycott the son of a Haddington vestryman, who held a responsible position at one of the Johannesburg gold mines and 011 the outbreak of the war ...
Article : 387 wordsIt is stated that on Saturday last General Hamilton's column surrounded at Thabanchu a considerable force of the Boers, and were just on the point of effecting their ...
Article : 129 wordsLieutenant George J. Waiter, Junior Lieutenant of the South Australian Mounted Rifles (Second Contingent), in a letter to an Adelaide friend, writes from Prieska, ...
Article : 988 wordsThe latest despatch fom Alafeking is dated April 20, and states that the garrison were then keeping "well." The Boers had removed their big gun, which ...
Article : 166 wordsThe War Office reports the following casualties to Australians attached to General Ian Hamilton's column, which is operating against the Boers east of ...
Article : 111 wordsAn interesting letter has been sent by a Royal Marine on II.M.S. Powerful, which has arrived in F.ngland, to his parents at Rochdale. Writing on February 28 he ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 5 May 1900, Page 26
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