Native eye-witnesses of Thursday's battle at Tatham's Farm report that the Boers, having been caught in the open, raised the white flag, and afterwards fired at close ...
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Advertising : 137 wordsThere is excellence in thieving, as in every, other line of business. The blundering shop-breaker just "hooks" what first comes within sight and reach, and decamps. The ...
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Article : 592 wordsThe British forces are holding Estcourt, 145 miles distant from Durban, in strength. This town is the market town and centre of Weenen County. Its buildings are strong ...
Article : 655 wordsThe heights of Maritzburg, the capital of Natal, have been strongly fortified. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe "Dally Mail" states that the Boers in their bombardment of Mafeking threw 300 shells into the town. With all this display, however, only four of the defenders were ...
Article : 89 wordsThat the city had put on its gayest garb for the celebration of the anniversary of the Prince of Wales' Birthday. Was evident at an early. hour this morning by the displays of ...
Article : 386 wordsAt yesterday s meeting of the committee of the Newcastle Benevolent Society, the motion furnished a report concerning the recent lire in the men's dining room, referring to the ...
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Advertising : 258 wordsThe local Marine Board yesterday afternoon gave the reserved decision concerning the loss of the steamer Mermaid, which was wrecked near Seal Rocks on the 11th ...
Article : 102 wordsA magisterial inquiry will to-day be opened in the case of the terribly sudden death which last night befel a piankman named Henry Stevens. A little before midnight. ...
Article : 116 wordsAn armoured train, conveying a body of Dublin Fusiliers, has left Estcourt for Colenso, and Pleter's Station, seven miles nearer Ladysmith, with a view to repairing those ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Boers in the vicinity of Kimberley set fire to the veldt, with the result that 35 tons of dynamite at the De Beers mine was exploded. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe conference of intercolonial Chambers of Manufactures on the Federal tariff question met to-day, and was largely attended, Mr. J. L. Dangerfield (Vic.), moved, ...
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Article : 57 wordsThe "Dally Mail" states that the Second and Third Army Corps have received orders to mobilise, and 10,000 additional troops are to be despatched to South Africa. ...
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Article : 137 wordsLady Randolph Churchill, who undertook to provide an American hospital ship for the treatment of the wounded, will, with other American ladies, accompany the vessel. ...
Article : 33 wordsIt has transpired that a Transvaal artillery officer, disguised as an ambulance driver, conveyed a number of wounded British soldiers into Ladysmith during the temporary ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Federation debate was continued in the Assembly last night, Mr. Harper, who opposed, moving un amendment to the effect .that the Comomnwealth Bill be not submitted ...
Article : 200 wordsHut scant news has been received from Ladysmith during the past week, but latest advices are of a most reassuring character. The town is reported to be well fortified, and ...
Article : 611 wordsThe Wollongong Municipal Council has been granted a lease of the foreshore of the Wollongong harbour, between Stuart, Park and Brighton Beach for a term of three years, with ...
Article : 240 wordsAfter the engagement at Elandslaagte, between Glencoe and Ladysmith, on October 21, in which the Boers suffered a serious reverse, all the men of the Johannesburg garrison ...
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The Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 - 1909), Thu 9 Nov 1899, Page 5
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