During the engagement at Tugela River on the 15th inst., General Sir Redvers Buller had a narrow escape, a bullet grazing his ribs. Another bullet grazed Major-General ...
Article : 59 wordsA resident of Capetown warned the Government of Cape Colony in 1894 that he had seen at Pretoria written plans of an anti-British campaign. He also states that ...
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Advertising : 145 wordsThe Boers allege that Mr. Winston Churchill, war correspondent for the "Morning Post," made his escape from Pretoria disguised as a woman. ...
Article : 29 wordsFollowing are extracts from a letter forwarded by one of the Bathurst Mounted Rifles to Captain Machattie, and which reached Bathurst this morning:— ...
Article : 1,427 wordsLieutenant-General Sir W. F. Gatacre, whose headquarters are now at Sterkstroom, in the northern Cape Colony, has taken stringent steps to prevent disloyalty and to ...
Article : 65 wordsGeneral Joubert, who temporarily retired a short time ago from the command of the Boer, forces, the caused assigned being ill health, has again gone to the front to ...
Article : 47 wordsLieutenant-General Methuen is shelling the enemy's positions near the Modder River, but the Boers refrain from replying fearing to disclose their location. ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is reported from South Africa that 1000 Cape Dutch are proceeding to the Tugela River to reinforce the Boer forces there. ...
Article : 33 wordsTwenty thousand men have volunteered for active service with theye omany regiment now being formed by Lord Ohesham. ...
Article : 23 wordsPursuant to notice Major Thompson, of the Imperial Government, arrived in Bathurst yesterday for the purpose of purchasing horses for the troops in South Africa. The ...
Article : 159 wordsIn connection with the surrender of Lieutenant-Colonel F. R. C. Oarleton's column at Nioholson's Nek, it will be remembered that it was stated at the time ...
Article : 125 wordsNews from Kimberley is to the effect that the town is provisioned for six months. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 40 wordsLast evening in the School of Arts' Hall the Plimmer-Oarey Company presented to a Bathurst audience for the first time the mythological and extremely amusing comedy ...
Article : 691 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller has received a heliograph message from Ladysmith to the effect that the town can hold out for an indefinite period. ...
Article : 83 wordsTENDER ACCEPTED.—For fencing, tarpaving, pipe drain and repairs, courthouse and police station, Lithgow (Eskbank), Mr. J. Dunkley tender has been accepted ...
Article : 539 wordsThere is great bustle at Victoria Barracks to-day. The officers and men are busily engaged in attending to the many details connected with the dispatch of the second ...
Article : 107 wordsMembers of the Afrikander Bund at Capetown report that 8000 European officers and men, including skilled tacticians, are being held in reserve at Pretoria. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Australian Infantry are stationed at Ansoon, the Canadian troops at Belmont, and the Queensland Mounted Rifles at Orange River. ...
Article : 29 wordsThree members of the Cape House of Assembly, are implicated in charges of sedition. "The Times" correspondent with Lieut. ...
Article : 139 wordsMajor-Oeueral Kitchener has joined Field-Marshal Lord Roberts at Gibraltar, and they will travel together to Capetown. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 249 wordsThe Boers have placed barbed wire at the bottom of the fords at Tugela River. The captured guns have been thrown into the river. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe second battalion of the Lancashire and Middlesex regiments have arrived at Capetown, and strong drafts of other regiments are landing, and also thousands of ...
Article : 40 wordsThe services of the squadron of Canadian rough riders have been accepted by the British Government. Another similar squadron has been asked ...
Article : 41 wordsAlthough it has been decided that in a general way, no further troops will be drawn from India to reinforce the South African armies, the 16th—the Queen's—Lancers ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Imperial Government has decided that it is undesirable to draw further reinforcements from India except in the case of unforseen emergencies. ...
Article : 27 wordsIt is said that President Kruger is suspicious of the presence of spies. ...
Article : 23 wordsIt is reported that fever and the horse disease known as "pink-eye" are prevalent at the Boer camp at Magersfontein. Cases of the latter complaint have also ...
Article : 46 wordsThe following team will play for Bathurst in the above on New Year's Day on the local wicket:—T. E. McKibbin, C. Sloman, K. McPhillamy, M. Crowhurst, R. and E. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe London "Times" states that the Moddor River difficulty was over-estimated. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe presence of the colonial contingents has evidently borne good fruit in South Africa, apart from the material aid the men afford in the different commands to which ...
Article : 137 wordsIt is reported that General Cronje, commanding the Boer forces at Magerafontein, has intimated that he declines further communication with Lieutenant-General Lord ...
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