The British arms have experienced a serious reverse near Ladismith. So far, the news of the disaster is most meagre. The report states that forty-two British officers and fifteen hun-dred men have surrendered to the enemy, but precisely under what ...
Article : 699 wordsOn Saturday evening the Fremantle Literary Institute Hall proved all too small to accommodate the crowd of members of the local defence forces and others ...
Article : 138 wordsWe are happy to he able to lay before our readers two excellent sketches of the chief region of the fighting in South Africa. Our cablegrams this week show that the ...
Article : 275 wordsAn immense congregation gathered in Wesley Church on Sunday evening for the special Berrico conducted by the Rev. G. E. Rowe, tbe occasion being the ...
Article : 273 wordsOn Monday evening, in the Vaudeville Theatre at Guildford, those members of the Western Australian contingent who nail from the Swan district were tendered ...
Article : 142 wordsThe alterations in the contingent show that eight new men have been chosen, and their names, with the regimental numbers, their ages, birthplace, ...
Article : 203 wordsA social was given in the Infantry Drill Hall on Tuesday, by the Perth Artillery and Perth Infantry to the members of the West Australian Contingent. The latter ...
Article : 661 wordsIn anticipation of the arrival in Perth of the Western Australian Permanent Infantry from their camp at Karrakatta large numbers of people poured into the ...
Article : 391 wordsOn Sunday Thos. O'Flaherty, a member of the West Australian contingent, inflicted on himself a couple of severe wounds in the throat with a razor. At ...
Article : 185 wordsThe disaster at Ladismith has oidy intensified the enthusiasm of the Canadians. Some of the Irish newspapers exult in the disaster. British reinforcements numbering 20,000 men are expected to ...
Article : 142 wordsBetween four and five o'clock all the streets which led to the Esplanade Recreation Ground were througed with men, women and children, all bent on ...
Article : 1,904 wordsThe members of the West Australian contingent, in recognition of the valuable services rendered by Sergeant-Major Munchin, one of the staff drill instructors ...
Article : 83 wordsA very large number of the Western Australian contingent attended at the Queen's Hall on Sunday afternoon to partake of tea, at the invitation of the ...
Article : 151 wordsIn Legislatives Assembly on October 26 the Speaker announced the [?]aipt of the following message from His Excellently the Governor:—" The ...
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Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954), Sat 4 Nov 1899, Page 18
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