Private E. C. Mills, writing to his mother, under date 1st March, says:—"We started for the front yesterday at 2 p.m. from Capetown Railway Station. It was very hot and dusty, ...
Article : 583 wordsThere are indications that the vanguard of the force which was despatched by Lieutenant general Lord Methuen, under Coloned Drummond, from Kimberley, for the relief ...
Article : 711 wordsThe casualties suffered by the British army in South Africa up to April 7 reach a total of 17,701 killed, wounded, and missing, but not including the loss in the disaster at ...
Article : 116 wordsNews received via Delagoa Bay reports that the Boers to the number of 35,000, with 90 guns, occupy impregnable entrenched positions between Kroonstad and Winburg, a distance ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Marquis Viscounti Vinosti) has assured the Transvaal delegates (Messrs Fischer, Wolmarans, and Wessels) that Italy will not ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Transvaal and the Orange Free State have both protested strongly against Portugal's action in permitting the debarkation of the troops at Biera, which they assert is ...
Article : 86 wordsCommandant Botha attempted to isolate General Clery and his force at Sunday's River. The Boer positions cover fifteen miles of country. ...
Article : 38 wordsDaring attempts have been made by the Boers to creep towards the British line of communication, but in each instance the attempts have been successfully checked. ...
Article : 32 wordsGeneral Buller's prospective movements in Natal consist of containing the attention of the Boer force there, and busying them in order that the forces at present there may be ...
Article : 55 wordsGeneral Hunter is now embarking at Natal with a large force, including the Dublin's, Connaughts, and Somersets. Their destination is unknown, but it is believed to be ...
Article : 39 wordsAt the instance of Britain, passports have been withheld from 25 out of 75 foreigners who landed at Delagoa Bay. The twenty-five stopped carried ammunition. ...
Article : 34 wordsSir Alfred Milner, Governor of Cape Colony, in acknowledging an address of confidence from 46 clergymen of the Evangelical churches, said that a recurrence of the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Boer prisoners taken at Bishoff go to St. Helena direct. ...
Article : 16 wordsLord Roberts has received new boots and khaki serge uniforms for the troops at the front, but the concentration of stores delays his immediate march forward. ...
Article : 55 wordsFather De Lacy, an ardent Johannesburg priest has been expelled by the Boers for showing sympathy with the British prisoners by providing them with Xmas dinners. ...
Article : 32 wordsIt is understood that Mr Chamberlain is willing, if appeals are unrestricted, to pass the remainder of the Bill without alteration, and also simultaneously to introduce a scheme for ...
Article : 49 wordsTwo lifeboats at Padston (Cornwall, Eng.) capsized, and eight lifeboat men and three shipwrecked fishermen were drowned. ...
Article : 21 wordsWe have two children who are subject to attacks of croup. Whenever an attack is coming on my wife given them Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and it always prevents the ...
Article : 142 wordsVALENTINE PFINGST, found guilty the previous day of manslaughter, was brought up for sentence. Mr Lukin called witnesses as to character. ...
Article : 426 wordsWILLIAM CONNOLLY was charged with having stolon at Tenthill, on the 8th March, a mare, the properly of August Tillick. He was also charged with receiving the same, ...
Article : 144 wordsTHOMAS GALLAGAN was charged with having in his possession a hundred forged bank notes, purporting to be bank notes of the Bank of North Queensland. ...
Article : 137 wordsDAVID SISSMAN was charged with having murdered Michael Doyle at Sandy Camp, Clifton, on the 24th January last. Mr J. W. Blair, instructed by Mr Geo. ...
Article : 2,703 wordsThe hearing of the charge of the murder of Michael Doyle preferred against David Sissman was continued, the witness Michael Doyle being still under examination. ...
Article : 5,221 wordsMadame Melba's (the eminent vocalist) husband has obtained a divorce in Texas on the ground of her desertion of him. ...
Article : 31 wordsA woman was round near Mallewa Junction with her legs bound and nearly strangled. She was unconseioun when found, but on recovering stated that shortly after 3 o'clock on ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. J. Stodart, M.L.A., has protested to the the Premier the resolution passed at a meeting of about 200 German residents held at Beenleigh on 21st March The resolution reads:— ...
Article : 205 wordsMessrs. G. Castner and Bowden, the delegates sent by the Oakey congregation of the above-named mission, presented to the quarterly meeting of the Methodist Church, Toowoomba, ...
Article : 534 wordsA special meeting of the Municipal Council was held on Wednesday at 10 a.m. for the purpose of accepting enders, fixing salaries, and the discussion of a probable further loan to ...
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Darling Downs Gazette (Qld. : 1881 - 1922), Sat 14 Apr 1900, Page 7
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