At a later stage the Boers made a determined attempt to retake the position, but they were repulsed. Brigadier-General Brabant now ...
Article : 37 wordsDr Leyds, the Transvaal representative in Europe, states that President Kruger wants peace, but he will never sacrifice the independence of the ...
Article : 63 wordsCaptains Hamilton and Jenkins, commanding 200 Victorians and Tasmanians with two guns, proceeded from Colesberg, in Cape Colony, and reconnoitred ...
Article : 114 wordsMr Bennett Burleigh, writing to the ‘Telegraph’ on January 5, says that the opinion of the man on the spot as to the question, ‘Shall we win ?’ in Buller’s ...
Article : 662 wordsThe engine attached to the Geraldton train become detached from the carriages near Arrino this morning, and the train receded a mile and a half before the ...
Article : 101 wordsMonsieur [?], a member of the local Parliament, died from bubonic plague. The deceased was an honorary member of the Sanitary Commission, ...
Article : 60 wordsOwing to pressure of state affairs, the Queen has abandoned her contemplated visit to Bordighers, in the Italian Riviera ...
Article : 34 wordsMajor Thompson is still purchasing horses on behalf of the Imperial Army for Africa. Up to date be has purchased 4,803 in this colony, 1,923 of ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Prince of Wales will not attend the opening of the Paris Exhibition. ...
Article : 29 wordsJohn Madden, who was removed to quarantine from the Hosier hirer Hotel, died from bubonic plague at noon today. His condition from the time of ...
Article : 74 wordsWhen Ladysmith was relieved by General Buller’s force, only four day’s full rations remained in the town. Lord Roberts wired to General White ...
Article : 81 wordsThe troopship Maplemore is expected to arrive about 6 o’clock to-morrow morning. The Bushmen’s Corps will be tendered a hearty send-off. To-morrow ...
Article : 215 wordsE. D. Gouly, the well-known advertising canvasser, was found sitting in a chair at his office quite dead this morning. A bottle of strychnine was found ...
Article : 105 wordsParliament has been farther prorogued until April 24. A scheme for dealing with the unemployed problem will be considered by ...
Article : 36 wordsTrooper E. E. M'Lellan, of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles (Second Contingent), was shot while pa rolling Arundel, Cape Colony, on February ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Brisbane Committee of the Chamber of Commerce unanimously carried a resolution affirming the position taken up by the Premier ...
Article : 31 wordsIn connection with the inauguration by the Methodist Conference of a Thanksgiving Fund of 40,000 guineas at a meeting to-night 1,250 guineas ...
Article : 32 wordsThe revenue received from lands in February was £11,118, as against £9,634 for the corresponding month last year. ...
Article : 22 wordsMajor-General Clements holds Achtertang, 12 mites to the east of Colesberg. The Boers are still in force at Norvals ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Second Contingent West Australian Mounted Infantry, under the command of Captain H. L. Pilkington, and the Second Contingent South ...
Article : 53 wordsThe coasting steamer Cambria, 79 tone, trading between Fremantle and Bunbury, was wreaked at Bookingham, 12 miles from Fremantle, yesternight. ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Public Works Department is calling for competitive designs for-new post and telegraph offices. The estimated cost is £250,000. ...
Article : 24 wordsJoseph Ford 25, while driving a lorry, was unseated through the breaking of a [?]rap. He fell from the vehicle and the wheels passed over his body. He was ...
Article : 51 wordsThere are indications that Lord Roberts’ pacificatory proclamation is having a good effect. The people of the lower portion of the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe gold yield for February is 74,947 oz, showing a comparative increase of 10,464oz. ...
Article : 21 wordsPresident Kruger has announced that General Oronje surrendered owing to a scarcity of ammunition and food. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Minister of Defence received telegrams to-day from men in all parte of the colony offering their services, and praying to be included in the second ...
Article : 139 wordsSpeaking at Auckland to-day, the Premier said as regards finance and the present position of the colony that, after meeting the extra charges for ...
Article : 41 wordsWhen Been to-night, the Premier expressed some dissatisfaction at the action of the Imperial Government in not introducing the Commonwealth Bill ...
Article : 53 wordsGeneral Joubert is collecting his forces at Abraham’s Kraal, on the south bank of the Modder River. Abraham’s Kraal is 30 miles east of ...
Article : 48 wordsMany of the Boers are withdrawing from Natal via Biggar’s Berg, in the direction of Glencoe and Vryheid. The British are accordingly sending ...
Article : 53 wordsAt the capturing of the Boer guns on the Little Uchelwan, Kajor Kane Davis was the most active of all on the hill, says the Ladysmith correspondent ...
Article : 243 wordsThere is the greatest dissatisfaction among the Volunteer officers (says the London correspondent of the ‘Manchester Courier’) at the extraordinary ...
Article : 298 wordsA big fire occurred at Toir[?], near B[?]tha, when [?]our children of James Christie lost their lives. ...
Article : 24 wordsGeneral Cronje and Mr T. G. H. Wolmerans, President of the. Volksraad, have thanked Lord Roberts for his considerate treatment of the Boer prisoners. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe R.M.S. India arrived at noon today and was placed in etrict quarantine. The passengers for Sydney, under an arrangement with the New South Wales ...
Article : 39 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has sent a .congratulatory message to the blue jackets Under General Buller. ...
Article : 29 wordsM’Lean Bros, whose interests in Kapito Island were taken over by the Government, were awarded £1,125 by the Compensation Court. They claimed ...
Article : 226 wordsAt dawn yesterday, Major C. Maxwell of the Royal Engineers, commanding a mixed force numbering 1,100, attacked the Boers’ rear, to the north of ...
Article : 134 wordsThe British Cotton and Wool Dyers’ Association, with a capital of £3,000,000, is being floated, The concern will represent 80 percent ...
Article : 176 wordsSo fax as the Victorian wheat yield is concerned, in some of the districts the thresbirgs are disappointing, and the final results, so far as can be gauged, ...
Article : 47 wordsRecently the Canadian Volunteers offered to garrison Halifax, Nova Scotia, and thus release the 1st Battalion Prince of Wales’ Leinster Regiment (Royal ...
Article : 46 wordsAt Yuille’s annual sale of yearlings nearly 100 lots were catalogued, for which there was considerable competition. The best price realised was for ...
Article : 96 words‘Rooineks,’ the term which the Boers have hitherto applied to our soldiers, is, it seems, now usually abbreviated to ‘rooies,’ while the Boers arrogate to ...
Article : 96 wordsThe newspapers-insist upon the Imperial Government making the cost of the South African war a first charge on the revenues of the Republics after ...
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Herald (Coolgardie, WA : 1899 - 1901), Tue 6 Mar 1900, Page 3
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