The Dutch farmers in the Clan William district, which is situated about 130 mile north of Capetown, refuse to aril any horses, to the British army, and dare the troops to come and ...
Article : 45 wordsCommandants De La Rey mid Steenkamp recently conducted a successful cattle raid near Krugersdorp. They were pursued by General Clements and General Paget, but ...
Article : 80 wordsOLD AGE PENSIONS.--We referred in our lost issue to the heavy additional burden imposed upon justices of the peace by the operation of the Old Age Pensions ...
Article : 4,783 wordsGeneral Clements, who has been for some time past operating in the Johannesburg district, has occupied Buffeispoort, in the Krugersdorp district, to the south-west of the ...
Article : 30 wordsDr. Leyds, Commandant Eloff and M. Henri Rochefort, are actively engaged recruiting men in Europe for service with the Boers in South Africa. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Afrikander members of the Cape House of Assembly are Rending Messrs. Merriman, Sauer and Holmeyer to England as a deputation to represent to the British House of ...
Article : 49 wordsAn influential Boer peace commission is being formed at Bloemfotein for the purpose of explaining to Commandant De Wet and Mr. Steyn the leniency of the terms offered by ...
Article : 46 wordsA deputation, representing 100,000 settlers who are natives of the western provinces of Cope Colony, waited on Sir Alfred Milner and assured him that the loyal colonists were ...
Article : 84 wordsOwing to the discovery of a plot to destroy the Capetown water works, the Table Mountain watershed is .being strongly guarded, and a guarded is now watching False Bay, which ...
Article : 45 wordsThe British press is [?]mous in its appreciation of the generous response made by the Australian Commonwealth in answer to the request for further troops fur South ...
Article : 32 wordsStrict precautions am being adopted to prevent the possibility of a rising of the Dutch in Cape Colony. Four hundred troops have arrived at Malmesbury, which is only 35 ...
Article : 65 wordsThe War Office has issued orders fur the formation of three now batteries of field artillery at Aldershot. ...
Article : 23 wordsFollowing immediately upon the death in South Africa of Lieutenant Skene, reported in our last issue, comes the announcement of the death of Mr. W. H. Skene, a well known ...
Article : 101 wordsA detachment of 129 men belonging to General Knox's force came into contact near Lindley with a Boer commando, which greatly outnumbered the British. ...
Article : 71 wordsGeneral Babington bus had an engagement with Boer commandos under Do La Rey and Steenkamp at Naanwpoort, defeating them heavily and forcing them to retire in a ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Solicitor-General, the Hon. Agar Wynne, M.L.C., will be a candidate for St. Kilda when Sir Geo. Turner retires. ...
Article : 33 wordsGeneral Babington has succeeded in expelling the enemy from Witwatersrand. ...
Article : 17 wordsAdvices from Capetown state that a Boer officer named Hagedoorn has been interviewed at Marseilles. He stated that the Boer invaders of Cape Colony have plenty of ...
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Advertising : 3,055 wordsReuter's correspondent abates that the invaders in the Calvinia district are freely receiving horses, food and good wishes from farmers. ...
Article : 26 wordsHie invaders profess that they themselves are only a big patrol preparatory to the appearance of De Wet. The correspondent further states that if De ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Times Capetown correspondent states that many Afrikanders are joining the defence force. They declare it is plain that it is their duty to repel the invaders. ...
Article : 35 wordsA central Peace committee has been formed at Kroonstad, which includes W. D. De Wet, late assistant chief Boer commandant, as well as three members of the late Volksra[?]d and ...
Article : 116 wordsIn conclusion it says:-- "We have done our best in fighting, but are beaten, and our duly now is to accept England's irrevocable terms of peace." ...
Article : 58 wordsIn concluding its round of Commonwealth celebrations, the New South Wales Government entertained the pressmen now in Sydney at a banquet in the town hall to-night. ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Kruger and the late Transvaal Government, the letter says, were twice willing to accept Britain's terms, but Mr. Stoyn refused and encouraged the burghers to hope for ...
Article : 45 wordsThe general commanding at Capetown reports that of the British army at present in South Africa ninety thousand unengaged m guarding lines of communication and in ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Prince of Wales will attend the banquet which will be given in London in honour of the inauguration of the Commonwealth on the 21st inst. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Vicana newspaper Fromdeublatt, dealing with the inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth, says it is a new force in the world's polities, and a factor ...
Article : 47 wordsA new mounted force, known as the Western Police, and the Mounted Ri[?] from Capetown, are concentrating at Piquentberg mad, 50 miles N. E. of Capetown, whence they will ...
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Hamilton Spectator (Vic. : 1870 - 1918), Thu 10 Jan 1901, Page 3
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