Lord Dundonald has conducted a reconnaisance as far as Honger’s Port, north of the Tugela. He was not molested. ...
Article : 22 wordsDefinite statements have reached Durban to the effect that General Buller has again crossed the Tugela. It is stated by some that the latest forward ...
Article : 86 wordsA QUANTITY of reading matter will be found on the fourth page. HELD OVER.—A report of the recent “Patriotic Concert ” at Dongarra. The ...
Article : 818 wordsThe farmers in the Thebus district of Cape Colony are joining the colonial troops. ...
Article : 32 wordsGeneral French’s force now encloses 7000 Boers in the bids around Colesberg. Lack of naval guns is severely felt by the officers commanding, who, ...
Article : 39 wordsThe number of British soldiers missing in connection with the Spion Kop affair is now reported to be 215. The missing men. were chiefly from the ...
Article : 36 wordsA corporal of irregulars was shot by the British during the engagement at Spion Kop. He was found shaking hands with an acquaintance within ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Queen has been greatly touched and gratified by the receipt of a loyal message from the Mayor of Mafeking. The message is dated 27th ult, the ...
Article : 58 wordsFive companies of the Australian Infantry under Colonel Road, at Modder River, have been converted into mounted infantry. They are described ...
Article : 36 wordsMf Bennett Burleigh reports that the Boers were in the act of abandoning Spion Kop when the British retirement induced them to return. He ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Daily News correspondent at Chieveley is responsible for the statement that large reinforcements for General Buller have been detrained at ...
Article : 29 wordsThe strength of the Boer force between Modder River and Kimberley is estimated at 20,000. ...
Article : 20 wordsThere are indications that the 6th, 7th, and 8th divisions of Lord Roberts’ army will reinforce Lord Methuen at. Modder River. On these troops ...
Article : 56 wordsForty soldiers, reported as killed at Magersfontein, are prisoners. ...
Article : 13 wordsGeneral Kelly Kenny has re-built the railway bridge over the Orange River. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe London Daily Mail is responsible for the statement that the Government intend to raise 15 new battalions of infantry. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Standard’s correspondent at Durban states that in November last Armstrong and Whit worth, Ltd, offered to lend the Natal Government a ...
Article : 40 wordsThe injury sustained by Major General Woodgate at Spion Kop consists of a wound over the eye. It was caused by some fragments from a Boer ...
Article : 29 wordsThe report from Cape Town which credited Buller with having, in an address to the troops on Monday last, expressed a Hope that he would be in ...
Article : 42 wordsFive hind red British subjects at Barkly East have been commandeered by the Boers. ...
Article : 19 wordsLord Roberts, the Commander-in-Chief, is actively organising the forces in Capetown. Addressing the first London Volunteers, who have just ...
Article : 47 wordsA Boer commando, one thousand strong, with three guns, is reported to be in the vicinity of Viyheid. Vryheid is in the Transvaal, and lies ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Daily Telegraph is responsible for the statement that had Ladysmith fallen when assaulted by the Boers on the 6th ult. Kruger would visit ...
Article : 42 wordsOwing to foreign powers contracting largely for Welsh steam coal, the Times expects famine prices to rule until March. ...
Article : 48 wordsUnder date January 8, Colonel Baden Powell reports he has forced the Boers to remove several of their big guns to ineffective petitions. ...
Article : 26 wordsBritish troops, with artillery, have occupied the village of Prieska. ...
Article : 16 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Goschen made a powerful reassuring speech. He claimed for the entire cabinet the full collective ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Boers are busily engaged in making forts at Stormberg. ...
Article : 16 wordsMessrs Pharagyn and Tomlin New Zealanders in Loudon have each contributed £100 to N. Z. Bushman’s Fund. ...
Article : 21 wordsA heliographic message has been received from, the Mayor of Kimberley. It states that the citizens of the beleaguered garrison are prepared to ...
Article : 39 wordsA cheering message has been received by heliograph from Ladysmith. It states that the garrison were elated on Saturday at hearing Buller’s guns ...
Article : 67 wordsThe garrison at Mafeking is reported to be all well. Colonel Baden Powell urges the military authorities not to relieve the ...
Article : 40 wordsClarke, the eminent counsel, continues to stoutly condemn the part played by Chamberlain and Milner in the negotiations with the Transvaal ...
Article : 63 wordsMr Wyndham, Parliamentary Secretary for War in the House of Commons, made a statement as to the strength of the British and Boer ...
Article : 280 wordsTrooper J. Harford, of the N.Z. contingent is seriously ill. ...
Article : 15 wordsSir Redvers Boiler Holds all the drifts across the Tugela River. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Mansion House Fund, promoted by the Lord Mayor of London, in aid of the widows and orphans of soldiers killed in South Africa, now ...
Article : 47 wordsAccording to the latest accounts from Ladysmith, there are very few Boers to the north-west of Ladysmith. Two civilians from the beleaguered ...
Article : 63 wordsIn response to enquiries Infantry Brigade, recently offered to transform his five companies into a mounted force. The offer was accepted. The Australian ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Hotchkiss battery, lately presented to the New Zealand Government by Armstrong, Whit[?]orth and Co., has been shipped to Cape Town. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Cape Mounted Police have captured 1000 head of cattle in the Dordrecht district. ...
Article : 19 wordsA British flying column has reached North Zululand. The column consists of experienced colonial scouts, and its probable object is to harass the ...
Article : 40 wordsNative deserters from the enemy report that five field cornets of the Boer army were killed during the recent fight on the Tugela. They say that ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Times announces that supplementary War Estimates are being prepared demanding from parliament the appropriation of £20,000,000. This ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Boer bombardment of Kimberley is proceeding with great vigor. In the space of three days no less than 1000 shells were dropped into the town. ...
Article : 38 wordsThornycroft, who succeeded in the command of the storming party at Spion Kop when Wood ate fell wounded, has made an interesting ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Queen has been pleased to confer the Victoria Crosses upon late Lieutenant Hon. Frederick Roberts, Captain Walter H. Congreve, Captain ...
Article : 64 wordsThe employees of the Canadian and Pacific Railway Company have each given half a day’s pay to the Lord Majors Widows and Orphans Fund. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Fourth Cavalry Brigade are about to embark for South Africa. It consists of 2,528 men. The brigade will be accompanied by six field guns, ...
Article : 33 wordsAdvices hare been received from Cape Town urging the Government to despatch immediately substantial reinforcements to South Africa. ...
Article : 22 wordsA British force composed of detachments of New Zealand mounted Remington’s Scouts, and a squadron of Life Guards is reported to ...
Article : 61 wordsOwing to British pressure the Portuguese authorities are imposing more stringent regulations for controlling the landing of foreigners at Lorenzo ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Times correspondent at Sterkstroom reports that the Boers are distributing pamphlets in the Basutos language. The pamphlets promise ...
Article : 62 wordsThornycroft declares that the roads leading to Ladysmith are covered with a succession of trenches along the line of route. ...
Article : 24 wordsGeneral French, who is commanding the Naanpoort column in the north of Cape Colony, is on a visit to Cape Town. The object of General French’s ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Boer force from Vryheid has captured a British magistrate at Ngtu, in Zululand, with, 1[?] white and 34 colored police, together with a number ...
Article : 41 wordsThe debate on the Address-in-Reply would, it is stated, have collapsed only that the whips had arranged that a division should take place on Tuesday ...
Article : 34 wordsColonel Williams, of the New South Wales Army Medical Carps, has been appointed principal medical officer to the Australian troops. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Shilling Fund promoted by the London Daily Telegraph, in the interests of the widows and orphans of soldiers who fall in the South African ...
Article : 34 wordsGeneral Buller’s army in Natal has been supplied with double rations . ...
Article : 18 wordsAt a meeting of the Cape Town branch of the Africander Bond Hofmeyer presided. Resolutions were carried condemning the action of the ...
Article : 65 wordsLord Roberts recently wrote to Joubert, the Boer Commandant-General. promising the release of the Boer prisoner Pretorius, who has had ...
Article : 66 wordsThe British Government have ordered 100,000 khaki woolen suits for the troops during the winter season. Orders for several motor cycles have ...
Article : 36 wordsIn reply to a question asked in the House of Commons, Mr. Broderick stated that Great Britain had in no way surrendered the right to search for ...
Article : 29 wordsBy her latest convention with Russia, Persia has, it is believed, allowed her bands to be virtually tied for 70 years. Russia, moreover, by guaranteeing the ...
Article : 61 wordsGeneral Joubert is at present on the Upper Tugela. It is supposed that the presence of the Boer Commandant General in the neighbourhood is an ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Winston Churchill declares that everything can be staked on the coming battle. He adds that the spirits of the troops were never higher. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe volunteer officers of England are profoundly disgusted with the War Of lice because of obstacles placed in the way of volunteers going to the ...
Article : 50 wordsThree squadrons of Kitchener’s light horse, and a regiment of irregulars are being formed at Cape Town and are now ready to take the ...
Article : 34 wordsEight hundred rebels from Barkly East, in the north of Cape Colony have reinforced the Boer position at Dordrecht, where the enemy is now 2200 ...
Article : 48 wordsA remarkable scene was witnessed in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Nimes, in France. The occasion was a memorial service for French soldiers. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Times correspondent at Ladysmith reports that the garrison is resigned to any fate. At the same time it is determined to second to the ...
Article : 43 wordsMr Jourdaan, private secretary to Mr Cecil Rhodes’ bas been captured by the Boers. When taken prisoner, Jourdaan was engaged in carrying ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Morning Leader, on the authority of a correspondent at the front, affirms that General Buller has begun a fresh movement. The object ...
Article : 45 wordsA colonel on the staff of Col. de Villebois Marcuil, the French strategist who is assisting the Boers, declares that in the Boer Army there are ...
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