In the House of Commons yesterday Sir Michael Hicks Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced his War Budget. ...
Article : 624 wordsM. Delcasse, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and M. Ribot, an ex-French Premier, have publicly deprecated the anti-British crusade in ...
Article : 78 wordsThe casualties among the rank and file of General Buller's relieving army from February 14th to February 27th were:— ...
Article : 232 wordsFive thousand Boers, lately serving with the Ladysmith and Colesberg commandos, have reached Abraham's Kraal. ...
Article : 113 wordsParliament has been further prorogued till April 24. SYDNEY, March 6. The commission for the sub-division of ...
Article : 67 wordsPresident Kruger, who is at present at Bloemfontein, has issued a fervid appeal to the burghers to have faith in God. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe shipments of gold from Melbourne by the R.M.S. Ophir to-day amounted to £10,000. The work of preparing plans and ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Boer entrenchments are said to extend from Bloemfontein to Pretoria. ...
Article : 123 wordsBy to-day's express from Perth the Minister of Mines (Mr. H. B. Lefroy) arrived in Coolgardie to commence a tour of the eastern goldfields. He was ...
Article : 475 wordsA Reuter's despatch from Capetown states that Stormberg was evacuated by the Boers on Sunday night. [Stormberg is situate about forty miles ...
Article : 137 wordsSome of the Boer prisoners who were taken at Koodoos Rand endeavoured to effect an escape while being transported to Capetown. ...
Article : 49 wordsGeneral Brabant has been victorious over the Boers at Dordrecht, and is now in pursuit of the enemy. General Gatacre has entered ...
Article : 35 wordsThere was another large audience at Ye Olde Englyshe Fayre variety show in Hay-street last night. During the entertainment the announcement was ...
Article : 223 wordsThe Mikado, Mutsuhito, of Japan, has congratulated Queen Victoria upon the successes lately achieved by the British arms in South Africa. ...
Article : 5,221 wordsThe fourth death which has taken place from the bubonic plague in Sydney occurred today, Robert Walker succumbing to the disease at the quarantine station. Five ...
Article : 165 wordsAdvices received from Mafeking bearing date of February 19th, state that the besiegers are using natives, Germans, and renegade British ...
Article : 40 wordsA strong British force, including the Kimberley Light Horse, has marched northwards from Kimberley. ...
Article : 229 wordsA few months ago Mr. Geo, Brookman gave £10,000 to the council of the School of Mines and Industries as the nucleus of a fund for the erection of a special ...
Article : 84 wordsIt is stated that the pursuit of the enemy by 2,000 cavalry from the Ladysmith garrison accelerated the starting of their last three trains from ...
Article : 98 wordsThe mobilisation in British waters of a powerful Reserve Fleet has been Commenced at Torbay. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe question of Methodist union was debated at a sitting of the Wesleyan Conference to-day on the motion of the Rev. W. W. Rutledge, re-affirming the resolution ...
Article : 97 wordsLord Paunceforte has, it is announced, been reappointed for one year as British Ambassador at Washington. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe strike of carpenters and joiners for a uniform wage of 10s. per day has now been in existence for five weeks, and the men show no disposition to surrender. ...
Article : 54 wordsA man named Thos. Gilday, a visitor to the town, attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself in front of the midnight train for Cockburn. The ...
Article : 69 wordsArrivals.—Johannesburg, s.s., 2,819 tons, from Melbourne, December 30; Gulf of Martaban, s.s., 1,726 tons, from Brisbane, December 9; Josefa, ...
Article : 72 wordsNews has been received of the evacuation by the Boers on the 25th ult. of the station known as Crocodile Pools, and of its occupation by Colonel ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 7 Mar 1900, Page 5
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