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  2. AT COLESBERG.

    LONDON, February 8, 3.50 p.m.—The Australian Mounted Infantry, under the command of Colonel Hoad, numbering 600, are shaping well, and have been distributed around Colesberg in responsible ...

    Article : 363 words
  3. THE BOER GUNS.

    LONDON, February ll.—According to a secret memorandum presented to the Transvaal Volksraad, the Boers had 230 modern guns prior to the war. ...

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  4. BOMBARDMENT OF KIMBERLEY.

    LONDON, February 12, 5.55 a.m.—The Boers, with a six-inch gun, have been bombarding Kimberley since the[?]th[?]nstant. The number of the assailants is increasing, ...

    Article : 45 words
  5. THE FORCES IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    LONDON, February ll, 3.30 p.m.—Five thousand additional troops embarked yesterday for South Africa, including the, first troop of Lord Loch's Contingent of Veterans. ...

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  6. ROBERTS PRAISES THE AUSTRALIANS.

    LONDON, February 7, 4.50 a.m.—Lord. Roberts yesterday visited at Capetown the Warrigal with the "A" Battery New South Wales Artillery on board, and the Euryalus with the Victorian ...

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  7. GENERAL CLERY INVALIDED HOME.

    LONDON, February 10, 7.45 a.m.—LieutenantGeneral Sir C. F. Clery, who was in command of the Second Division, is returning home invalided. ...

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  8. WANTON DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.

    LONDON, February 12.—Lord Roberts bas sent a second telegram to Presidents Kruger and Steyn complaining of the wanton destruction of property by the Boers in Natal. ...

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  9. THE SUNNYSIDE REBELS.

    LONDON, February 12.—The forty-three disloyal Dutch, who were captured by the Queensla[?]ders at Sunnyside on January 17 and subsequently taken to Capetown, charged with treason, ...

    Article : 37 words
  10. "A" BATTERY.

    LONDON, February 12, 4.20 a.m.—The Australian Battery (? "A" Battery) started from Capetown for the front on Sunday. The Mayor bf Capetown was present when the ...

    Article : 44 words
  11. GATACRE AND KELLY-KENNY.

    LONDON, February 7, 3.50 p.m.—LieutenantGeneral Sir Wm. Gatacre's mounted troops are in touch with those of Lieutenant-General KellyKenny, at Thebus, between Rosmead Junction and ...

    Article : 90 words
  12. THE COLONIAL TROOPS.

    LONDON, February 12, 4.40 a.m.—The Capetown correspondent of the "Times" says that the more colonials sent to South Africa the better. The continued stream arriving from the colonies ...

    Article : 43 words
  13. A RECONNAISSANCE.

    LONDON, February 12, 4.40 a.m.—A troop of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons and fifty bf the Victorian Mounted Rifles, under Lieutenant and Adjutant R. W. Salmon, in the reconnaissance near ...

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  14. GENERAL HUTTON.

    LONDON, February 12. 4.40 a.m.—MajorGeneral E. T. H. Hutton, C.B., commanding the Canadian militia, and formerly Commandant of the New South Wales Forces, has been ordered ...

    Article : 36 words
  15. THE PROPERTY OF LOYALISTS.

    LONDON, February 12, 3.50 p.m.—Sir Alfred Milner's proclamation stating that the British Government would refuse to recognise the forfeiture of the property, of the loyalists in the Transvaal ...

    Article : 52 words
  16. THE PRESIDENTS AND JOUBERT.

    LONDON, February 7, 3.50 p.m.—Presidents Kruger and Steyn haying complained of General Joubert's inactivity, the latter in reply invited the two Presidents to "come and look at General ...

    Article : 34 words
  17. BOER ARTILLERY FOR THE FRONT.

    LONDON, February 7, 3.50 p.m.—The "Cape Argus" states that President Kruger has sent 90 additional guns to the front, thus denuding Pretoria of the whole of its artillery. ...

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  18. LARGE PURCHASE OP HORSES.

    LONDON, February 12, 3.42 p.m.—The British Government has purchased 5000 horses in Hungary. ...

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  19. BOER PRISONERS..

    LONDON, February 7.—Five Boers, who were prisoners at Simonstown, seized some firearms, and wounded a warder, and escaped. 'They were re-captured after two had been wounded. ...

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  20. COMFORTS FOR QUEENSLAND TROOPS.

    LONDON, February 12, 3.42 p.m.—Lady Lamington, wife of the Governor of Queensland, has acknowledged the receipt of a sufficiency of comforts for the Queensland troops. ...

    Article : 34 words
  21. BOERS SHORT OF SHELLS.

    LONDON, February 8.—Advices have reached London stating that the enemy are short of shells for their big guns. Desperate efforts are being made to obtain, fresh supplies from ...

    Article : 40 words
  22. The Bushmen's Contingent.

    Saturday, February 24, has been fixed upon as the date of departure for the contingent. The fund now amounts to nearly £27,000. In the list previously published the name of ...

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  23. BRITISH EMPIRE LEAGUE CONCERT.

    LONDON, February 8.—The British Empire League's concert at the Albert Hall, London, under the patronage of the Queen, in aid of the widows and orphans of men of the colonial ...

    Article : 83 words
  24. THE TASMANIAN LOSSES.

    HOBART, Tuesday.—The Governor, has received the following cable, dated 11th instant, from Sir Alfred Milner: "Regret to report the following casualties in Tasmanian Contingent at Rendsburg ...

    Article : 93 words
  25. BOERS SHORT OF HORSES.

    LONDON, February 9, 4.10 p.m.—A prisoner states that the Boers haye had so many horses killed thafthey are forming infantry corps. ...

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  26. WEST AUSTRALIANS IN ACTION.

    LONDON, February 12, 4.40 a.m.—Twenty of the West Australian Contingent, under Captain H. G. Moor, discovered a force of Boers placing a gun near Sliagersfontein. The Australians ...

    Article : 168 words
  27. THE ATTEMPT TO FLOOD LADYSMITH.

    LONDON, February 9.—The scheme of the ememy for flooding Ladysmith by damming the Klip River is regarded as impracticable, although 1300 natives are employed in the work. ...

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  28. BOERS EMPLOYING NATIVES.

    LONDON, February 9, 11.10 a.m.—The Boers at Vaal Krantz are employing armed natives in the fighting line. The "Daily Chronicle" says that if the Boers ...

    Article : 51 words
  29. THE BOERS IN ZULULAND.

    LONDON, February ll.—The Boers have taken the magistracy at Nkandhla, Zululand. Previous to his departure, Mr. J. L. Knight, the resident magistrate, exploded the magazine. He ...

    Article : 38 words
  30. A COLONIAL MEMORIAL.

    LONDON, February 11, 3.30 p.m.—The "Spectator" proposes the erection in the heart of London of a conspicuous monument to the colonies, with the View of commemorating the devotedness ...

    Article : 39 words
  31. N.S.W. MOUNTED INFANTRY.

    LONDON, February 12, 4.40 a.m.—Fifty, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, under Lieutenant W. Holmes and Lieutenant M. W. Logan, assisted the Inniskilling Dragrons and artillery in ...

    Article : 57 words
  32. THE ROBINSON BANK SEIZED.

    LONDON, February 11, 3.30 p.m.—President Kruger has' seized the Robinson South African Banking Company's bank at Johannesburg, and transferred the customers', accounts to the ...

    Article : 36 words
  33. AT MAFEKING.

    LONDON, February 9, 11.10 a.m.—Letters from Colonel Baden Powell state that he has forty Fenian prisoners at Mafeking, among them being James Quinlan, late stationmaster at Mafeking, ...

    Article : 93 words
  34. COLONEL H. A. EAGER.

    LONDON, February ll.—President Steyn has promised to release Colonel H. A. Eager, of the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, who was wounded and captured at Magersfonteih, as soon as he ...

    Article : 70 words
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