The latest news from the seat of the war is to the effect that the force under General Lord Methuen, which is advancing on Kimberley, came up with the enemy at Modder River ...
Article : 81 wordsThe following is copied from the "Times" of Natal, dated October 26, and appeared as an extract from a private letter which had been received from the front, giving ...
Article : 227 wordsGeneral Lord Methuen'a official report of the battle at Modeler River states that the fight was one of the most trying in the annals of the British Army. ...
Article : 104 wordsThe jury were unable to agree in the alleged conspiracy case and the accused were remanded, bail being allowed. Dessax (otherwise known on "Shaddo") ...
Article : 52 wordsA nitin has been arrested at West Maitland on suspicion of being concerned some time ago in defrauding by soiling brass filings for gold. ...
Article : 36 wordsLatest reports regarding the Ninth Lancers who wore dispatched in pursuit of the enemy, after its defeat at Grass-pan on Saturday, states that owing to heavy ...
Article : 137 wordsThe following interesting letter has been received from Miss Edith Button, of Melbourne (says the "Argus"), who is at present at Maritzburg, in Natal:— ...
Article : 1,004 wordsA disastrous fire occurred at West Wyalonglast, night, 28 business premises were destroyed, including the Bank of New South Wales and Bananan's Hotel. ...
Article : 63 wordsA portion of the New Zealand contingent, under Major Robin, which lately arrived at Capetown, per the steamer Waiwera, has been dispatched to De Aar, where General ...
Article : 61 wordsThe wool exports from Sydney last week wore valued at no loss than £940,810. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Lord Chancellor of Ireland has removed the Nationalist Chairman of the Tipperary Council from the Irish Magistracy owing to his congratulating the Boers on ...
Article : 43 wordsThe heat yesterday in the city was 81 dog in the shade, but at Condobolin, Walgett, and Browatrina it went to 112deg., and in many other places over 100deg. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe total number of guns at Natal now number 72. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe Public Works Committee yesterday adoptod a motion that it is expedient to construct the Cobar to Wilcannia railway. ...
Article : 24 wordsSubscriptions to the War Belief fund continue to come forward steadily, with the result that the total is rapidly assuming respectable proportions. ...
Article : 55 wordsReports received state that natives told Colonel Kokewich on November 28 that the Boer camps to the south of Kimberley had been vacated, and that Qeneral Cronje with ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Caulfield-Norton case resulted in a verdict for plaintiff, a farthing damages being allowed. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Paris "Dobats,' commenting upon the virulent articles appearing in a number of the newspapers of Paris and the provinces, consures them as "destable attacks upon ...
Article : 81 wordsA fund has been inaugurated in London for the relief of the wives and families of members of the Natal Volunteer Corps who may lose their lives in the present campaign. ...
Article : 42 wordsMajor-General Sir William Gatacre has arrived, at Bushman's Hoek, about 20 miles from Colesberg. He is advancing towards the Orange River frontier. ...
Article : 27 wordsTrooper J. Byrne, of the Parramatta section of the New South Wales Lancers, is reported missing. ...
Article : 28 wordsSix men of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who were wounded during the armored train fight, at Chievely, on the 16th inst., were sent to Ladysmith by the Boers. ...
Article : 76 wordsHis Imperial Majesty, tho Emperor William of Germany has concluded his visit to England. His Majesty, accompanied by the Empress and their two sons, left ...
Article : 73 wordsGreat Indignation is expressed at Capetown at what is termed the "mild homilies" recently addressed by the Hon. J. W. Sauer, Commissioner of Public Works in the ...
Article : 71 wordsGeneral Gallifet, the French Minister for War, has issued an order forbidding officers of the French army to serve with the Boers against the British. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe French agitators who frenziedly demanded compensation for the firing upon, and searching of, the French steamer Cordoba, at Delagoa Bay, by a British cruiser ...
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Advertising : 1,148 wordsThe Duchesse of Uzes, the late General Boulanger's partroness, has raised a pro-Boer legion in New York, whence it is intended the men shall start unarmed. The ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, speaking before the National Conservative Union at Dewsbury, said that the mines hereafter would be taxod towards the cost of the ...
Article : 189 wordsSir Edward Clark, who represents Ply-mouth in the House of Commons, has decided not to contest his scat at the nest election, fearing that the tone of his recent ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Kaiser, who is Hon. Col. of the 1st Dragoon Guards, has given a donation of £300 for the special relief of the families of any of the man of that regiment who may ...
Article : 48 wordsA number of Sydney ladies have interested themselves in making light suits of pyjamas for the comfort of the sick and wounded in hospital in South Africa. Major-General ...
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