Generals Buller and French, after a rearguard action, expelled the Boers from the high hills, overlooking Helvetia, and most of the Boer guns retreated towards ...
Article : 144 wordsMade their escape during the journey and have rejoined the British lines. Lieutenant Rundle, an Australian, was among them. Lord Roberts has burnt the farms of 30 Same British officers who were being transferred to Barberton by the Boers ...
Article : 99 wordsThe barricades which were constructed by the foreign legations in Pekin are described as a wonderful sight on account of the novel and brilliant features. ...
Article : 231 wordsHer Majesty the Queen is now visiting Balmoral. ...
Article : 23 wordsI wrote last from Pretoria, where we were waiting for stores for the 4th Mountted Infantry Corps. When they came up we rejoined our companies, and have since ...
Article : 2,299 wordsAn elderly single man, Sydney Black, fell from a tram on which he was riding up Lonsdale-street on Saturday afternoon, and died four hours later. ...
Article : 120 wordsThe funeral of the late Sir Saul Samuel Bart., took place at Golder's Green Jewish Cemetery, Finchley, Middlesex, yesterday. The chief mourners were Captain H. ...
Article : 109 wordsNurse Watts, in a letter dated Bloemfontein, July 16, writes thus to Lady Brown:— "Nurse-O'Shanahan is much better, and ...
Article : 493 wordsProduce to the approximate value of £22,400 was exported last week through the Government cool storage depot to London. The principal shipments were 196 tons of ...
Article : 41 wordsBrigadier-General Charles A. Cunningham, the British resident at Aden, has entertained Count Von Waldersee, the German generalissimo of the allied forces in ...
Article : 189 wordsThe revenue from July 1 till August 31 was £1,188,484, or £42,530 more than for the first two months of the previous financial year. For August alone the Treasury ...
Article : 87 wordsPrince Ranjitsinhji, playing against Kent, scored 220 runs, this being his eleventh century for the season. This is a record. ...
Article : 26 wordsA daring-outrage was attempted in a railway train on Friday night. A girl aged 14. who had been visiting her grandmother, entered a train at Boxhill to return to ...
Article : 97 wordsIn the county match yesterday, Surrey versos Derbyshire, Robert Abel, the Surrey professional, scored 193. this being his eleventh century for the season. ...
Article : 31 wordsOne hundred and fifty professional muskdans in Melbourne have decided to form a union. They intend to try and establish branches in the other colonies. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe death is announced of the famous agricultural chemist, Sir John Bennett Lawes. ...
Article : 21 wordsIt is reported that a commando of 1,500 Boers, with two guns, are now occupying Maquatting's Nek, in the Ladybrand district, and the British garrison at Ficksburg ...
Article : 232 wordsThe revenue returns for August total £90,207, an increase as compared with the corresponding period of last year of £10,201. ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Bland Holt staged "How London Lives" at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night to a full house. "What Happened to Jones"' is having a successful run at the Palace, and Mr. Dampier's production. ...
Article : 120 wordsA letter written, by the Viceroy of Paoting-in, which has been intercepted, states that at the outset of the trouble in China, the Toatai of Thang-chau invited 2,000 ...
Article : 220 wordsIn view of the risk of infection from plague, the New York authorities have decided to impose a quarantine of 12 days on all vessels arriving from Glasgow, the ...
Article : 72 wordsA boating disaster happened in the harbor shortly after 5 o'clock this evening. An 18-footer sailing-boat, the Ruby, with 13 young men on board, capsized just inside ...
Article : 499 wordsTruth is indeed stranger than fiction, and Burnham, the celebrated scout, especially sent for from the Yukon, Canada, by Lord Roberts, has had more wonderful ...
Article : 1,528 wordsIt is announced that the total number of failures among the wool firms at Roubaix is 17, the total liabilities being upwards of 25,000,000 francs. The market has, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe baseball match between Victoria and New South Wales resulted in a win for the visitors by an innings and two runs, the scores being—Victoria 8 innings, 11 ...
Article : 39 wordsColonel Hoad, who returned from South Africa a week ago, invalided home, was entertained at a dinner on Saturday night by the officers of the Victorian Military ...
Article : 82 wordsA solemn and impressive ceremony was enacted at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon in connection with the assassination of King Humbert of Italy. In addition to ...
Article : 99 wordsThe New German-American cable, which has been laid between Emden, a seaport town in Prussia, and New York, was formally opened yesterday, when the ...
Article : 46 words"Enquirer."—Easter Sunday in 1901 wil fall on April 7. "Another Finders," Franklin Harbor, considers that both millers and shippers ...
Article : 68 wordsNews by the mail states that the following general order was issued on the occasion of the death of Major Moore, of West Australia:—"By Major Moore's death ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Russian Government have orally informed the United States Government that the relief of the Legations at Pekin terminates the mission of the allied forces, and ...
Article : 363 wordsThe first attempt having failed to recover the body of John Largan, lost on Mount Arrowsmith on Saturday, August 18, another party left Queenstown last Tuesday. ...
Article : 589 wordsMr. Foster Barham has been appointed engineer of the Brisbane waterworks. ...
Article : 17 wordsSir—In reference to the paragraph appearing in "The Advertise" of August 27, taken from the "Medical Gazette," stati[?] that the Australian N[?]tives' Association in ...
Article : 174 wordsColonel R. G. Kekewich's forces, according to latest advices from the front, are now hastening north words from Kimberley, and the Lancashire Regiment is ...
Article : 84 wordsThe revenue for August was £242,833, an increase of £6,560, as compared with the corresponding period of last year. The total amount of money sent out of ...
Article : 160 wordsSilver is now quoted at 2/4 7-16d. per oz. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 wordsLieutenant Colonel E. C. Bethune is reported to nave occupied Vrede, 200 miles north of Bloemfontein, and to have captured lares quantities of ammunition, together ...
Article : 163 wordsFrozen Meat.—Quotations for frozen meat are as follows:—New Zealand sheep —Crossbred wethers and maiden ewes (55 to 65 Ib.)—Canterbury, 3[?]d.; Dunedin ...
Article : 231 wordsThe inquest on the body of John McKay, who was fatally injured at Block 11 on Tuesday morning was concluded on Saturday. A verdict of accidental death was ...
Article : 76 wordsAs the outcome of a protracted secretlyconducted enquiry into alleged breaches of trust by employes, of the Telegraph Department at Kalgoorlie, it is announced ...
Article : 76 wordsSir—The letter of "The Advertiser's London correspondent with reference in first-aid instruction to railway employes should be considered by the St. Johan Am. ...
Article : 214 wordsThe gold yield for August is 131,485 oz. The total production for the eight expired months of this year is 1,003,390 oz. ...
Article : 25 wordsM. de Giers, the Russian Minister at Pekin, and General Lenevich, who is in command of the Russian troops in China, have been instructed by their Government, that, local circumstances permitting, all Russians in the Chinese capital should be withdrawn to Tientsin pending the appointment of plenipotentiaries. ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Mon 3 Sep 1900, Page 5
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