It has transpired that at the long interview on Thursday last between the federal delegates and Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Reeves, the New Zealand Agent-General, who, with ...
Article : 325 wordsThe troops in the Orange Free State are all in summer kit, but the cold season is now fairly commenced, and a number of pneumonia cases have occurred among the ...
Article : 265 wordsThe official despatch from Lord Methuen, who was about a fortnight ago recalled from an advance north-west of Kinberley in pursuance of the Mafeking relief ...
Article : 373 wordsThe new plan of campaign evolved by the Boers in the Free State--that of keeping their line of defence to the mountainous country in the east, and thence raiding the ...
Article : 301 wordsIn the south-east of the Free State, Brigadier-General Brabant, who, with 3000 colonial troops (chiefly Cape Colony men) crossed the Orange River at Bethulie, ...
Article : 111 wordsLord Roberts, who has delayed his advance north and east of Bloemfontein till his troops are equipped with woollen uniforms, very cold weather and heavy rain ...
Article : 407 wordsMr. Carruthers, the late Minister of Lands in New South Wales, and a member of the Federal Convention, has written a letter to the "Times," in which he states ...
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Article : 270 wordsColonel Powell reports that on 23rd March the Boers made an elaborate and carefully prepared attempt to lure him into a mined ambush. On the day mentioned the Boers ...
Article : 257 wordsIt is understood that Mr. Chamberlain is willing, if the right of appeal to the Privy Council is unrestricted, to pass the remainder of the bill unaltered. He will ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Boer force under Comandant Olivier, estimated at from 10,000 to 15,000, is now handicapped by the exhaustion of its horses, and the mobility which ...
Article : 136 wordsA conference of the Premiers of the federating colonies will be held in Melbourne on Thursday next, for the purpose of discussing the attitude taken up by the ...
Article : 147 wordsAmong the documents found in the Presidential offices at Bloemfontein after the town was captured by Lord Roberts, were a quantity of correspondence between ...
Article : 302 wordsMr. I. A. Isaacs, Q.C., Attorney-General of the late Turner Ministry, who is in England as counsel for the Melbourne Tramway Company in its rating case appeal to ...
Article : 241 wordsNews received from Wepener, where Colonel Dalgety, commanding the advance column of Brigadier-General Brabant's force of colonial (Cape) troops, has been ...
Article : 326 wordsNo exact information as to the movements of the column which General Methuen detached over a fortnight ago march to the relief of Mafeking has been ...
Article : 69 wordsColonel Plumer has reported, by way of Fort Salisbury, the engagement lough on 31st March south of Ramathlabama, accounts of which were some days ago ...
Article : 127 wordsLord Roberts, who, after investigating the disaster at Stormberg in December last, when Lieutenant-General Sir William Gatacre, by a rash night attack, lost 600 ...
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Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935), Sat 14 Apr 1900, Page 24
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