There are still to be found in odd comers some persons who profess to look upon England's action in going to war with the Transvaal as the outcome of tyranny and ...
Article : 924 wordsLieutenant-General Lord Methuen communicates nightly with the beleagured garrison at Kimberley by means of searchlights. ...
Article : 31 wordsJames Macnamara was charged with assaulting with intent to commit a rape on Isabella Joseph, an Assyrian woman. Sergeant Wright deposed to arresting ...
Article : 107 wordsLieutenant-General Lord Methuen has protested against the arrest of a British officer who was protected by a flag of truce. General Cronje insolently replied that he ...
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Advertising : 150 wordsThe Duke of Marlborough and Viscount Valencia are among the yeomanry officers who have volunteered. ...
Article : 19 wordsThis morning the Warden (Mr. C. E. Smith, P.M.) met the miners concerned in the gold discovery at Clear Creek for the purpose of assessing the damage to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 62 wordsGeneral Lord Kitchener has arrived at Cario after a railway journey of 61 hours from Omdurman, in which the special train was derailed. He has sailed by the crusier ...
Article : 42 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has consented to become the patron of a concert, organised by the Empire League, to be held in the Albert Hall in aid of the widows and orphans of ...
Article : 57 wordsLadysmith has three months' supply provisions. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Daily News says that the London managers of the Johannesburg banks were snubbed by the War Office for privately warning them of the vast remittances made ...
Article : 43 wordsIt ia reported that Lieutenant-Colonel U. C. O. Plumer, who was supposed to be approaching Mafeking from the north with a Rhodesian battalion of Frontier Light horse ...
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Family Notices : 63 wordsThe Natal contingent of 700 men will shortly leave Portsmouth. ...
Article : 15 wordsIt is proposed to recruit a force of 1500 horsemen from the Gape Colony farmers to invade the Orange Free State. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsReports have been received of cruel treatment of British wounded in the hospitals by the Boors. Their blankets have been taken and given to the Boors. The British prisoners ...
Article : 48 wordsIntelligence to hand states that Lieutenant-Colonel Bullock and three officers and 40 men of to Devonshire Regiment were captured whilst searching for wounded after the ...
Article : 58 wordsSTAR BOWKETT.—The ballot for No 5 Starr Bowkett was last night drawn by Mrs. E. Morgan, Durham Street. FLORAL SERVICE.—A service of peculiarly ...
Article : 584 wordsThe general acceptance of the term "festive season " in its application to Christmas time indicates clearly enough that in Australia, at any rate, the holiday aspect is the one in ...
Article : 675 wordsThere is great enthusiasm amongst the Canadians, and the number volunteering for the second contingent is tenfold in excess of the requirements. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe friends of General Sir Reavers Buller declare that he fully advised the War Office of the Boer preparations for the war now in progress. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Boors have received 150,000 rifles via Delagoa Bay. In reply to the British protest, Portugal said that the Boors were allowed to import ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Herbert Gladstone, speaking at Leeds, said the action of the British volunteers had saved the country from a panic, and it was England's duty to sit tight and fight harder ...
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Advertising : 626 wordsThe " Daily Mail" states that Field Marshal Lord Wolseley persistently urged the despatch of the Array Corps to South Africa months ago. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe men who have volunteered locally for service in South Africa during the last few days, to the, number of 27, left Bathurst for Sydney by the mail train last night to undergo ...
Article : 233 wordsNewspaper correspondents at the front assert that the guns abandoned by the British in the recent fighting at Tugela River have been captured by the Boors. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe British Government have chartered six more vessels for transport of troops to South Africa. ...
Article : 18 wordsYour particular attention is directed to the very pretty Xmas. Millinery at EDGLEY'S —which is just as cheap as it is pretty; also to the Pique and Holland Overskirts, the ...
Article : 113 wordsHet Majesty the Queen has authorised collections to be taken up by the churches in England and Wales on January 7, for the purpose of alleviating the sick and wounded ...
Article : 51 wordsIt is probable that the Government will decide to include two or three companies of cavalry in the contingent from this colony. The men are enrolling with enthusiasm ...
Article : 41 wordsA company of the Gibraltar Garrison Artillery has been ordered to proceed to South Africa. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe "Times" urges the purchase off Australian and Argentines grass-fed horses for the Yeomanry Cavalry as the horses belonging to tho latter would take weeks to ...
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