LONDON, Wednesday. Noon.--A battle is raging between the Boer forces at Magersfontein and Lord Methuen's advance column. The battle started with a hot artillery duel ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 316 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.--On the motion for the adjournment of the Assembly to-night the Premier, replying to a question, said that he heard with regret of the serious British reverses in ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Further accounts of the Stormberg episode on Sunday come slowly to hand. The Boer losses are reported to have been ...
Article : 157 wordsThe receipt of news of the reverse to Lord Methuen's force in Cape colony caused a sensation last night in Parliament House. A consultation of Ministers was at once held, but the ...
Article : 243 wordsThe receipt of the cablegram giving the comments of "The Times" on recent developments in the Transvaal, occasioned some excitement in military circles last evening, and all sorts of ...
Article : 284 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The debentureholders of the Union Mortgage and Agency Company of Australia have approved of the scheme for amalgamation with the Australian Estate and ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The latest information from Natal is to the effect that a general advance of the British column which is marching to the relief of Ladysmith, has ...
Article : 106 wordsSergeant Parkinson, of No. 5 Police Division speaking on Thursday night at the Dacey presentation in the Redfern Town-hall, said the police force were not lacking in valor, and if they ...
Article : 185 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Sir Charles Bigham, Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, has granted to Lloyds' Bank £10,826 as damages against Mr. Horatio Bottomley ...
Article : 99 wordsDuring the debate on the Military Estimates, Mr. Lyne said: I will take this opportunity of saying a few words on what has taken place tonight. Cables which we have seen to-night ...
Article : 306 wordsBy the steamer Nineveh, which sails for the Cape to-day, Major Thompson, the Imperial officer who has been engaged in selecting remounts for the troops on service, will leave for the Cape, ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Colonel James Foord Hilton has been appointed commandant of the Queensland Defence Forces. Colonel Hilton served with the Hazara ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Military experts in South Africa advise that the Australian troops would have proved more useful if they had been all mounted men. ...
Article : 32 wordsMARITZBURG, November 18.--The "Times of Natal" publishes news from Ladysmith received per Kaffir runner from its own correspondent, dated Wednesday, 15th inst., and authenticated. ...
Article : 1,176 wordsHoulder Brothers and Co., Limited, received a cable yesterday, informing them that the s.s. Langton Grange arrived at Durban on the 13th instant, having only lost six horses, two ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The war transport Denton Grange has gone ashore at Las Palmas. The Denton Grange has on board for the ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--In the appeal case, Falkingham v. the Victorian Railway Department, the Privy Council has concluded the taking of evidence, and has reserved judgment. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe disaster at Nicholson's Nek, where six companies of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, four and a half companies of the Gloucesters, and the 10th Mountain Battery, the whole under the command ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 417 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--A Boer report states that Lady Sarah Wilson, the special war correspondent of the "Daily Mail," who was a prisoner in the hands of the Boors at ...
Article : 46 wordsSoon after the news was circulated in the Legislative Assembly, the Military Estimates came up for consideration. A suggestion was made that the vote should be ...
Article : 835 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Lieut-Colonel C. E. Umphelby, of the Victorian contingent, has been attached to the Howitzer Division, and left Capetown for the front on Monday last. ...
Article : 28 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--There have been enrolled at Durban 700 men for ambulance work. ...
Article : 17 wordsUnless a very great change comes over the position of affairs within a few days, the Christmas will not be a merry one in South Africa. A week ago it was possible to look on the ...
Article : 729 wordsMany people, if not all that have seen and heard Wagner's "Rhinegold," have wondered about the inner workings of the dragon, thirty feet long, that plays a conspicuous part in that ...
Article : 400 wordsLONDON, Thursday--The "Times," in commenting upon the result of the British attack upon the Boers at Magersfontein, states that Lord Methuen's repulse is the ...
Article : 192 wordsWOLLONGONG, Thursday.--A well-attended and representative meeting was held in the council-chambers last night, presided over by Alderman W. J. Wiseman, at which it was ...
Article : 85 wordsThe second case of bedwraps, old linen, and gauze lint for the use of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps in South Africa was dispatched from Parramatta by Mrs. F. J. Waller ...
Article : 785 wordsThe Queen's farewell to the Highlanders ordered to the Cape from Balmoral, reminds me (writes T. P. O'Connor) of a story I have been told of how her Majesty saw the Guards off 45 years ago, ...
Article : 176 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Particulars relating to the battle at Magersfontein go to show that it was a desperate contest, in which both sides suffered heavily. ...
Article : 1,391 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--General Gatacre has definitely abandoned Molteno in favor of the positions at Bushman's Hock and Cyphergat. ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Fri 15 Dec 1899, Page 5
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