Botha, having made a stand, about fifteen miles from Pretoria, has been duly beaten and driven eastward. General Buller has at last got though Laing's Nek, and, contrary to ...
Article : 142 wordsLONDON, June 12.—In the engagement near Roo dewai, north of Kroonstad, on Thursday, in which Colonel Baird Douglas, and 15 men of the 4th (Militia) Battalion of the Derbyshire ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, June 14.—Mr. W. P. Schreiner, the Premier of Cape Colony, and his Ministry have resigned. The resignations have been accepted by Sir ...
Article : 149 wordsLONDON, June 13.—It is officially reported that a column operating southwards has defeated the Boers and has reoccupied Honning Spruit, on the railway line between Kroonstad and ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, June 14.—Lord Roberts, being uneasy as to the raid by the Boers on the Rhenoster River, sent Major-General Lord Kitchener, his Chief of Staff, to the south from Pretoria, and ...
Article : 183 wordsLONDON, June 16, 6.5 p.m.—Baden-Powell, who has been appointed local Lieutenant-General, with 800 men is pacifying the Marico, Lichtenburg, and Rustenbufg districts, in the west of the ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, June 14.—It is officially reported that Lord Roberts attacked General Louis Botha on the 11th instant beyond Eerste Fabrieken (Hatherley), thirteen miles east of Pretoria. ...
Article : 453 wordsHie Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to the commission. of the peace, viz.:—Herbert John Aspinall, of ...
Article : 246 wordsLONDON, June 13, 2.25 p.m.—The total British casualties in action in South Africa from the beginning of the war up to the 9th instant were 1276 officers and 17,405 men. ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, June 15, 4.9 p.m.—Major Lord Edward Cecil, D.S.O., who was with Major-General Powell at Mafeking, has been appointed to administer Zeerust, in the Marico district, 125 miles ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON, June 18.—President Steyn issued a proclamation on the 11th instant declaring that the Free State was still fighting and unconquered. ...
Article : 28 wordsLONDON, June 15, 4.9 p.m.—Lieutenant-General Sir H. M. Rundle has intimated to the Boers in the Fickeburg. district, bordering Basutoland, that their farms will be confiscated, if they do not ...
Article : 38 wordsLONDON, June 18.—Six hundred Boers near the Zand River Station attacked 250 men of the Loyal North Lancashires, where the Railway Pioneers, commanded by Major j. E. Capper, R.E., were ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, June 16, 6.5 p.m—The Boers are massing at Ermelo and Paarde Kop, in the eastern Transvaal. They are very demoralised, and food is scanty. ...
Article : 31 wordsQUEANBEYAN, June 12.—At a court held yesterday before Commissioner Oliv[?] in reference to the federal capital site, Mr. Knox, secretary of the local committee, deposed to the ...
Article : 310 wordsLONDON, June 17, 9.55 p.m.—A British cordon, now stretches across the Transvaal, from Potchefstrom to Heidelburg. It is intended to intercept Commandants De Wet, who is trekking ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, June 13.—Private F. Suttie, of the Victorian infantry, reported to have been taken prisoner at Rendsburg in February, was killed at Blastershoek. ...
Article : 349 wordsLONDON, June 17, 5.40 p.m.—General Cronje, who was in command of the.Boer forces at Klerks-, dorp, and'the officials of the town surrendered as soon as they were sure that the British had ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, June 18.—General Sir Redvers Buller has issued an order warmly eulogising the Natal volunteers and releasing many from service. ...
Article : 23 wordsLONDON, June 18.—An Army Order has been issued announcing that a special gratuity of £5 will be given to all Australasian and Canadian noncommissiohed officers and men on their discharge. ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, June 13.—Major-General Hildyard, with the 2nd Brigade (2nd Division) forced Almond's Nek, the last defile from Charlestown flats, imperilling the retreat of the Boers by ...
Article : 299 wordsLONDON, June 18.—The Ermelo branch of the Transvaal National Bank having refused to accept President Kruger's paper, money to the amount of £6000, the Landdrost of the town ...
Article : 61 wordsA correspondent of the Indiana "Farmer' once gave directions for making a very durable and excellent whitewash, much employed before it was thought necessary that all walls should be ...
Article : 225 wordsLONDON, June 18, 5.7 p.m—Later details of the battle at Hatherley, near Pretoriai, on the 11th instant, with the forces of General Louis Botha, state that Lieutenant-Colonel the Earl of Airlie ...
Article : 54 wordsSir W. Lyne has received a telegram from the High Commissioner in South Africa dated June 13, reporting that No. 13, Corporal-bugler V. R. Daly, died of enteric fever at Bloemfontein on ...
Article : 390 wordsLONDON, June 15.—President Kruger is still living in his saloon car at Machadodorp. He is manufacturing paper money, and shipping gold to Europe. ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 23 Jun 1900, Page 13
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