It is officially announced that the enemy have withdrawn from the front of Thabanchu, and General Rundle now occupies their exceedingly strong positions. ...
Article : 48 wordsA meeting of ratepayers of the borough convened by the council, was held in the town hall last night to consider the question of erecting corporation sale-yards. ...
Article : 2,474 wordsColonel Plumer has communicated with Mafeking by pigeon post, and is endeavouring similarly to communicate with General Hunter's relief force. ...
Article : 87 wordsSir Leslie Rundle, who is in command of the eighth division at Thabanchu, is pursuing the Boer Commando which recently occupied the town, and which is now hastily retreating ...
Article : 42 wordsGeneral Brabant has joined General Bundle, who is pursuing the Boers in the direction of Brand Spruit. ...
Article : 28 wordsGeneral Hunter's division includes Colonel Paget's command and half of General Hart's. The Boers report that General Hunter's object is Vryburg, to the south-west of ...
Article : 36 wordsWhile at Smaldeel, Lord Roberts ascertained that the Boers had placed small packets of high explosives every few hundred yards along the branch railway line to Winburg. ...
Article : 39 wordsNews from the western front states that after crossing the Vaal River General Hunter sent General Barton to dislodge 3000 Boers from Windsorton and Klipdam. The Boers ...
Article : 122 wordsGenerals Hutton, Broadwood and Ian Hamilton have reconnoitred the country towards the Zand river, to the north-west of Smaldeel, and report that the enemy are in considerable ...
Article : 94 wordsNews from the western border states that Genera! Hunter expelled the Boers from Fourteen Streams. He eulogises the conduct of the Imperial Yeomanry in the recent fighting. ...
Article : 89 wordsFurther particulars regarding the reseat fighting at Brandfort show that General Hutton found that the enemy, with two long range and four other guns, were strongly ...
Article : 83 wordsHis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales yesterday reviewed the contingent from H.M.S. Powerful, which took part in the s[?]ege of Ladysmith. ...
Article : 48 wordsGeneral Ian Hamilton on Friday prevented a junction of two Boer forces, the Household Cavalry, the Twelfth Lancers and Kitchener's House charging in between them, inflicting ...
Article : 39 wordsGeneral Lukas Meyer commanded the Boers in the fighting at the Vet River, his losses being 40 killed. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe steamer Moravian left Capetown on the 5th inst. for Australia with 50 colonial invalids aboard. ...
Article : 25 wordsGeneral Buller's cavalry has discovered that the country in the vicinity of Acton Homes in the direction of Van Reenans Pass is clear of the enemy. ...
Article : 33 wordsLord Roberts has telegraphed details of the engagement fought by the troops under General Hamilton during their advance on Winburg. ...
Article : 212 wordsIn response to Lord Roberts's request many Imperial Colonial Officers are applying for district commissionerships in the Free state. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe splendid behaviour of General Hutton's Colonial Mounted Infantry is much commented upon. It is stated that the recent successes are largely attributable to ...
Article : 33 wordsGeneral French's whereabouts is a mystery. General Buller is rapidly completing his transport. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Government have received a wire from Sir Alfred Milner, stating that privates, S. W. Edwards, S. E. Gazzard, Stoney, and Geo. E. Bristow of the Victorian Mounted ...
Article : 47 wordsTwo members of the New South Wales contingent have had a remarkable experience which recalls the escape from Pretoria of Mr. Winston Churchill, the war correspondent of ...
Article : 104 wordsIntelligence from Pekin states that Chinese officials instigated the populace to attack the boundary commissioner's camps at Wei-hai-wei. The assailants were repulsed, losing ...
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Hamilton Spectator (Vic. : 1870 - 1918), Thu 10 May 1900, Page 3
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