In the House of Commons, yesterday, Mr. G. J. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, deprecated anything like an alarmist naval budget. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe siege of Koodoos Rand continues. Cronje is using rockets in the hope of attracting assistance. ...
Article : 115 wordsYesterday, in the new ballroom of Government House, His Excellency the Governor Sir Gerard Smith, K.C.M.G., Past Grand Warden of England, was solemnly ...
Article : 5,842 wordsThe Boer forces that are being drawn from Natal are being concentrated about thirty miles outside the Free State capital. ...
Article : 76 wordsOn Sunday last Major-General Clements, with detachments of the Inniskilling Dragoons, Artillery, and Australians, the latter being under ...
Article : 77 wordsGreat indignation has been aroused by the Duke of Orleans' denial of a statement to the effect that he wrote congratulating M. Willette, the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Shah of Persia, Muzaffer-ed-Din Mirza, has accepted an invitation to visit England. His Imperial Highness will arrive in London in the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Landrost, or local Government set up by the Boers at Lady Grey, in the Aliwal North district of Cape Colony, is apparently tired of the war. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe large wine cellars which are built into the chalk cliffs at Epernay, the headquarters of the wine of Champagne, have collapsed. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe second Tasmanian contingent has left Capetown for the front. ...
Article : 21 wordsAn official despatch was received this morning at the War Office announcing that Cronje, the Boer ...
Article : 40 wordsWhile the Australian troopship, Maori King, with the Queensland contingent on board, was off Madagascar, a lamp trimmer was arrested on a ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Grand Theatre at Islington, a suburb of London, was destroyed by fire yesterday. ...
Article : 25 wordsLord Lamington, the Governor of Queensland, and Lady Lamington have booked their passage to Australia by the R.M.S. Omrah. ...
Article : 30 wordsPresident Kruger has reopened the Johannesburg branch of the Robinson's Banking Company, and has restored all the cash and securities ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Indian Famine Fund, inaugurated by the Lord Mayor of London at the Mansion House now amounts to £100,000. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Royal Engineers, forming part of Lord Roberts' army, are now engaged in sapping towards the Boer laager at Koodoos Rand. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe railway yard at Colenso is said to be full of waggons loaded with necessaries and luxuries for the beleaguered garrison at Ladysmith. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. W. J. Sauer, Commissioner for Railways in Cape Colony, has, it is announced, stopped the pay of those railway employees who are serving as ...
Article : 41 wordsA man named Alex. Barton has been committed for trial at the next Quarter Sessions here, by the Bridgeton Bench, on a charge of indecently assaulting Mrs. ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Canadian contingent, forming part of Lord Roberts' army at Koodoos Rand, has sustained further heavy casualties. ...
Article : 127 wordsHeavy fighting took place around Grobbler's Kloof on Thursday, Friday and Saturday last. Eight British officers were killed, and thirty-four ...
Article : 131 wordsMr. E. Martin, of Adelaide, has received a lieutenant's commission in the Manchester Regiment. ...
Article : 2,567 wordsAmong the cases set down for hearing at the Criminal Court to-day was that of William King, who was committed for trial on the 12th inst. by a coroner's jury on a ...
Article : 88 wordsGreat interest is being taken by the ladies of Kalgoorlie in the movement for separation. The outlying parts of the district are being vigorously canvassed ...
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Advertising : 115 wordsLord Roberts has allowed the German Ambulance Corps from Jacobsdal to go to the assistance of Cronje's wounded. ...
Article : 32 wordsIt is estimated that up to Friday ast 5,000 Boers had withdrawn from Natal. In all directions, the Boer commandos are said to be hastening to Bloemfontein. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 28 Feb 1900, Page 5
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