The latest news seems to indicate that General Joubort intends to oppose Lord Roberts's advance upon Bloemfontein. With this object the Boer commander is ...
Article : 4,836 wordsYesterday the Premier had an interview with Mr. Melville, the Minister of Defence; Major-General Downes, military commandant; and Captain Collins, secretary for ...
Article : 1,961 wordsln responding promptly and heartlly to the call for an additional force of 2,000 bushmen, the Governments of Austialla are in thorough accord with ...
Article : 5,366 wordsThe question of how the cost of the war is to be defrayed is being discussed in the London press. The newspapers agree in insisting that ...
Article : 67 wordsAnother extraordinary statement has been made by Dr. Leyds, the Transvaal envoy in Europe. Dr. Leyds declares that while President ...
Article : 71 wordsBoth General Cronje and Mr. J. M. A. Wolmerans, a member of the Transvaal Executive Council, have thanked Lord Roberts for the considerate manner in ...
Article : 46 wordsFrom the speech of the Under Secretary for War in the House of Commons on February 1 we make the following extract:— ...
Article : 607 wordsThe British troops and the Boers are again coming to very close quarters, so close in fact that a conflict is probable at a very early date, that is if the report with regard ...
Article : 1,183 wordsA fortnight ago Lord Roberts issued a proclamation to the people of the Orange Freo State, declaring that Great Britain had no quarrel with them, and retained no ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 126 wordsIt is announced that in consequence of the pressure of public affairs Her Majesty the Queen has abandoned her intention of visiting Bordighera, in the Italian ...
Article : 42 wordsAs was announced in the House of commons on Friday night by Mr. Balfour, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Budget will be introduced to-day. It is believed that ...
Article : 78 wordsAs yet there are no signs of the Boers retiring, from Stormberg, though every effort in being made by Sir W.F. Gataere to force them to do so. ...
Article : 146 wordsHis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has decided not to attend the opening of the Paris Exhibition next month. ...
Article : 37 wordsA British cotton and wool dyers' association, with a capital of £3,000,000, is being floated. It includes 80 per cent. of the entire ...
Article : 36 wordsFrom further particulars which have been published respecting General Cronje's surrender at the Koedoe's Rand, it appears that much discontent prevailed in ...
Article : 100 wordsWhile Major Maxwell was fighting north of Dordrecht, Sir W. F. Gaiacre directed Brigadier-General Brabant to operate in the direction of Labuschagne Nek, which ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 204 wordsIt is unlikely that a special autumn session of Parliament will be held to pass the bill dividing A Victoria into electorates for the election of members to the House of ...
Article : 409 wordsOne of the last acts of the Transvaal Volksraad prior to the outbreak of war was to pass a measure providing pensions for President Kruger and the Transvaal ...
Article : 77 wordsThe escape is announced of three British officers from Pretoria. It appears that a stoppage of the electric light occurred at the Model School, ...
Article : 58 wordsDr. T. P. M'lnerney has received the following letters from his brother, Captain M'Inerney:- "Enslin, South Africa, ...
Article : 414 wordsThe 2nd Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment, under Lieut.-Colonel H. R. Roberts, has arrived at Durban. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe mayor has received a letter from the secretary of the Benalla Shire Council stating that his council had decided to hold a conference to advocate the claims of ...
Article : 74 wordsThe second contingents of mounted troops from South Australia and Western Australia that recently arrived at Cape Town have both left for the front. ...
Article : 31 wordsThere is a likelihood of sevious lighting in the Colesherg district, as the Boers are reported to the still in considerable strength at Norval's Pont, on the. Orange River, 20 ...
Article : 59 wordsThat Ladysmith was on the verge of starvation when relieved by Sir Redvers Buller is now apparent. The situation was, indeed, very grave, as there were only ...
Article : 74 wordsJohn Madden, the suffered from the bubonic plague, who was removed from the Hunter River Hotel, Sussex-street, on Friday last, died at the Quarantine ...
Article : 67 wordsLast month the War Office received an offer from the Canadian Government of a regiment of militia to garrison Halifax, Nova Scotia, by which means the 1st ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Samoa "Weekly, Herald," describing the native disturbance at Savaiin, telegraphed yesterday, states that it occurred on the 3rd inst. The villagers were armed ...
Article : 99 wordsFurther reports from Ladysmith show that the relief of the town was attended by scenes of even a more pathetic nature than those already recorded. ...
Article : 556 wordsSo enger were the Boers to secure a safe retreat that they abandoned their tents and supplies of all descriptions. Abundance of provisions and luxuries were found in ...
Article : 53 wordsA special meeting of the Sydney Chain her of Commerce was held to-night to discuss cable matters geneully. A motion was submitted welcoming the laying of the ...
Article : 73 wordsPrior to the commencement of the operations for the relief of Kimberley, Lord Roberts assured himself that the ambulance arrangements would be in a state of ...
Article : 101 wordsA very successful reconnaissance has been carried out by 200 Victorians and Tasmanians, under the command of Captain Donald Hallcy Jenkins, of the ...
Article : 186 wordsAt 11 a.m.—Bell v. Shaw (part heard). (Before the Cheif Justice, Mr. Justice A'Beckett, and Mr. Justice Hodges) Re the Premier Permanent Building Society. ...
Article : 95 wordsJohn Tait, of Perry-street, Footseray, railway employe. Causes of insolvency— Pressure of creditors and their refusal to give time to pay, an intimation from the ...
Article : 124 wordsAn interesting letter, dated from Rends. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 6 Mar 1900, Page 5
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