Advices from General French state that the Boers, having received considerable reinforcements, disputed his entry into Colesberg. When his despatches left, however, he was ...
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Advertising : 2,729 wordsAdvices from Kimberley state that lightning exploded two defensive mines. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe British authorities at Aden have detained the German steamer The General, bound for East Africa. The cargo was discharged and overhauled. ...
Article : 28 wordsColonel "Montmorency has evacuated Dorr drecht and occupied Bird's siding at Indive. ...
Article : 14 wordsNews from Chieveley states that General Buller destructively shelled the trenches on a plain adjoining Inbiawe Hill. The enemy shifted and their horses stampeded. ...
Article : 30 wordsLord Lovat has sailed for South Africa, taking with him 160 gilies from his Scotch estate. All are experienced deer-stalkers, and good shots. He also takes Highland ponies to ...
Article : 44 wordsFive thousand troops of the 7th Division have sailed for the Cape. ...
Article : 19 wordsMr. Steyn, President of the Orange Free State, has issued a proclamation that every white man who is a burgher in the Free State henceforth will be liable to service in defence ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Choate, the American Ambassador, has been instructed to obtain redress from England for the seizur by a British [?] at Delagoa. Bay of a of carg, American floor and ...
Article : 49 wordsPrivates Victor Jones and M'Leod, Queenslanders, were killed at Sunnyside. Private Rose, another colonial, was wounded. [In a recent cablegram it was stated that ...
Article : 57 wordsForty thousand of the latest make of German rifles have reached Pretoria packed as pianos. It has transpired that the rifles were shipped via Vienna and Delagna Bay. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Earl of Albemale, the colonel commanding the Civil Service volunteers, commands the Lord Mayor, contingent, as Howard Vincent is medically unfit for active ...
Article : 43 wordsAn act of treachery has been reported in connection with General French's recent movements. Some traitor in the ranks released the brakes of a train laden with food ...
Article : 99 wordsIt has been arranged that excursion trains are to run from the country for the departure of the contingent. Mr. Waddell, M.P., of Sydney, who is ...
Article : 134 wordsSir Redvers Buller is s[?]l in want of men for the medical department; and has issued an appeal to the citizens of Duran for 200 volunteers to act as stretcher-bea[?] ...
Article : 42 wordsThe fund to defray the cost of the force of yeomanry cavalry that is being raised for service in South Africa is increasing daily. The town of Newcastle onl'yne and the ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Boers at Colesberg Junction re-entered the town on Monday night. General French, in a report dated Tuesday, states that if smalt re-inforcements are sent he will be able to ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Government intend to ask for £35,000 for the expenses of the second contingent. Some opposition is expected, but a prominent member of the late Government to-day ...
Article : 52 wordsThe consequence of the victory won by the colonial troops at Sunnyside, west of the Modder River, on New Year's Day, is that the Boers have been driven back in the direction of ...
Article : 75 wordsIt is believed that attempts have been mads by Dr. W. J. Leyds, the Transv[?] envoy at Brussels, to enrol spies in the force of Yeomanry Cavalry that is being [?]ised by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 72 wordsThe military authorities are delighted that the colonials have struck the first blow since the battle at Magersfontein. Lord Methuen's cavalry operated northwards of Colonel ...
Article : 51 wordsAnother German vessel has been seiz[?] by the British in Delagoa Bay. The vessel in question is the Hans Wa[?]an iron barque, of 928 tons, of Hamborg[?] ...
Article : 50 wordsLater news from South Africa states that the occupants of the Sunnyside laager were mostly colonial Dutch. During the advance four Queenslanders, patrolling under ...
Article : 134 wordsDr. Fraser laughs at hie wife's proposition to go to South Africa, though he is willing to see the last of her. He says her statements about Tasmania are imaginary. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe great ship-building and gun-make [?]firm of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitwor[?] and Co. Limited, of Elswick, Newcastle[?] Tyne, recently offered to equip the secon[?] ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 wordsAccording to the Daily Mail, the Government, recognising the necessity of reorganising the artillery, decided upon an expenditure for this purpose of £5,000,000. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Boers are attempting to maintain their position at Colesberg, and a conflict is taking place with General French's outposts,of which the New Zealand contingent formes part. ...
Article : 63 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has expressed sympathy with the family of Midshipman Huddart, of H.M.S. Doris, who was killed at the battle of Graspan on the 25th November. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe presence of a detachment of the Ninth and Twelfth Lancers at Sunnyside prevents the Boer advance eastwards. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Boers refuse to recognise as prisoners of war any persons who were formerly residents of the Transvaal, and should they be captured they will be treated as convicts. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe colonial contingent under Colonel Pilcher having accomplished their object in clearing the Boers from the vicinity of the Vaal River, withdrew from Douglas and ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Boos recently occupied Molteno and Cyphergat, but Geneal Gatacrs's forces succeeded in dislodging them from the latter position, and they fied in the direction of ...
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Advertising : 113 wordsGreat enthusiasm continues to prevail in England in regard to the enrolment of the yeomanry cavalry for service in South Africa, and the enrolement is proceeding rapidly ...
Article : 43 wordsNews from South Africa states that the New South Wales Lancers were sent to prevent the looting of the wrecked commissariat train at Rendsburg. The Lancers were exposed to a ...
Article : 82 wordsThe traction engines into South Africa at the suggestion of Colonel Temple for the use of the army transport corps, are fulfilling their purpose admirably. ...
Article : 48 wordsLieut-Cob Pileher has brought to Belmont H a list of Douglas disloyalists, whose sons were fighting at Sunnyside. General Buller complimented Pilcher on his action. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe infantry force which is being raised by the Lord Mayor of London will include a battery of four viceroy's guns, which will be manned by volunteers from the Honorable ...
Article : 29 wordsNews from Colesberg states that 25 New Zealanders in an exposed position on a [?] towards Colesberg, drew the sadden fire of many Boers, concealed. in the hills across a ...
Article : 74 wordsA number of Austrians have offered [?] services for the contingent about to proceed to South Africa. These men have had a military training. The premier has communicated ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Secretary for Agriculture is busy arranging for the necessary fodder in connection with the transport of the Queensland contingent. ...
Article : 8 wordsThe British newspapers comment favourably on the recent interview between the Czar and Sir Charles Scott, British ambassador at St. Petersburg, at which His Majesty [?] Sir ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Lieutenant Governor has received a cablegram from Mr. Chamberlain, congratulating Queensland in the gallant behaviour of the colony's troops at Sunnyside. ...
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Hamilton Spectator (Vic. : 1870 - 1918), Sat 6 Jan 1900, Page 3
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