As the Court of Petto Sessions held on Friday, before Messrs. Howarth, Reid and Smith, J's.P., Constable Casey proceeded against George Barker, John Gunning, John M Lean ...
Article : 286 wordsDespatches from Buller on Monday state that heavy firing was heard in the direction of Ladysmith. It is supposed that General White was endeavouring to create a diversion ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Prince of Wales inspected 600 men, being the first batch of the Imperial Yeomanry, before sailing. The last batch of the City Volunteers supped at the Mansion House ...
Article : 31 wordsGeneral Gatacre holds all the pauses in the district of Sterkstrom. ...
Article : 18 wordsSir Alfred Milner has issued a proclamation that he will not recognise the Validity of any forfeiture of property by the Transvaal or Free State Governments subsequent to the issue of ...
Article : 42 wordsLord Tweedmouth, speaking at Edinburgh, declared that the Liberals had agreed that the war must he carried to a derisive victory whatever be the cost. ...
Article : 48 wordsThree hundred and fifty picked Burmese have sailed for Durban. ...
Article : 15 wordsPretoria reports state that a party of Boers surrounded a squadron of Bethune's horse, and inflicted 20 casualties, while 15 troopers were made prisoners. ...
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Family Notices : 54 wordsThe British have occupied The bite, an important position near Steynsburg, greatly facilitating communication between Generals' Gatacre and Kelly-Kenny's columns. ...
Article : 25 wordsSixteen Australian prisoners have arrived at Pretoria. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe Boer account of the fighting at Spion Kop declares that four commandos, covered by Boer artillery of Krupp, Creuzots, and Maxims, stormed Spion Kop. The British ...
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Advertising : 2,635 wordsThe Boers report that a shell has wounded Dr. Jameson in the leg during the recent fighting at Ladysmith. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe latest news from Ladysmith states that the garrison is very buoyant, and that the town is impregnable, and there is a sufficiency of wholesome food. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Cabinet this evening derided that the Bushmen's Corps should be increased to 250, including Cameron's. company of bush scouts. The Fitzroy City Council have voted £100 ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Times in a leading article urges Lord Roberts to strain every nerve to reinforce Buller. It also says that the Government must prepare fresh reinforcements to the ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. Lyne has received word from Sir Alfred Milner that two transports for the conveyance of the Bushmen's Corps left Capetown on Thursday. Each vessel is capable of ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is officially announced that Sir Charles Warren's garrison on Wednesday abandoned Spion Kop. When the news reached London that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 wordsMr. Winston Churchill states that when the troops of Warren captured the first line of trenches at Spion Kop the bodies of 200 dead Boers were found. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Times states that it is imperative that at least another body of 50,000 men must be organised and we must contemplate the early need of an equal number. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe text of Buller's only despatch regarding the Spion Kop incident states:"I am sorry to say that I find this morning Warren's garrison had abandoned Spion Kop in the night." ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 238 wordsThe Times to-day says there is a strong probability that Ladysmith most fall. From a strategical point of view this would not entail a great disadvantage, but from a political ...
Article : 50 wordsVivid despatches received from various generals at the front have been gazetted. They declare that General white wished at the outset to concentrate at Ladysmith, but ...
Article : 84 wordsBuller describes the awkward position at the battle of Colenso. He states that all the visible defences were shelled without the enemy's positions being disclosed. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe enemy's troops at Tabuyama have been reinforced by the addition of several guns, and they are busily engaged entrenching their position. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe War Office has issued a notification that the casualties announced yesterday should have been to Lyttleton's division, not Warren's. It is not known if Lyttleton was engaged in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 213 wordsLatest advices from Natal leave it uncertain whether Warren really garrisoned Spion Kop after engaging the enemy. ...
Article : 24 wordsIt is reported from a Transvaal source that Mafeking was relieved on the 23rd inst. ...
Article : 23 wordsFurther despatches from Buller state that the reason why Warren abandoned Spion Kop was that it was too large to held, and that the water supply was deficient. ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Reeves, New Zealand Agent-General, has made an appeal to New Zealand botanists in London for subscriptions to equip 200 rough riders, and to send comforts to the New ...
Article : 42 wordsDr. Leyds who is visiting Paris, was a guest at President Loubet's diplomatic dinner, it being a noticeable fact that Sir Edmond Monson was absent. ...
Article : 20 wordsBuller is of opinion that to make a second attack on Spion Kop would be useless, as the enemy's right flank is too strong to fence. ...
Article : 29 wordsOwing to the heavy transport of regular soldiers to the Cape, volunteers are now acting aa the Queen's guards at Osborne. ...
Article : 24 wordsRe abandonment of Snioa Kop, General Buller has further cabled that Warren's position up till Thursday was perfectly tenable though the advance was very difficult, owing ...
Article : 359 wordsThe patrols of Generals French and Gatacre have junctioned at Steyasburg. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe first portion of the seventh division has arrived at Capetown. ...
Article : 11 wordsThe German Federal Council has sanctioned a bill providing for an increase of the navy by 19 battleships and large praisers and 15 small vessels, and the personnel of the navy has been ...
Article : 4 wordsThe latest news states that Harold Booth, a New Zealander, was killed in the fighting at Rendsburg on Thursday. ...
Article : 6 wordsGeneral Ricciotti Garibaldi, son of the fanioos Italian general, has offered Kugland the services of several thousand volunteers. ...
Article : 5 wordsThe Premiers [?] ...
Article : 5 wordsThe Paris journal La Siede [?] document signed by 100,000 Frenchmen, [?] 1871, thanking England for supplies of food and ambulance during the ...
Article : 11 wordsThe Boers are [?] and 200 shells daily. ...
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Hamilton Spectator (Vic. : 1870 - 1918), Tue 30 Jan 1900, Page 3
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