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  2. The Murders by Blacks.

    The "running amuck" of the Breelong blacks, who began by murdering the Mawbeys, is unparalleled in New South Wales for half a century. The whole thing was so surprising, the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 261 words
  3. SIEGE OF RUSTENBURG.

    LONDON, July 25, 12.52 p.m.—The silence of the censors when Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell was besieged in Rustenburg until relieved by the 1st Division under Lord Methuen has been ...

    Article : 36 words
  4. 200 WELSH FUSILIERS CAPTURED.

    LONDON, July 25, 11.25 p.m.—Two hundred men of the Welsh Fusiliers and a supply train have been captured by the Boers near Roodewal, 13 miles north of Honingspruit, in the Orange River ...

    Article : 42 words
  5. THE BOER WAR.

    Lord Roberts is now engaged in another (and probably the last) general movement against the Boers. Middelburg has been captured, and we shall very likely soon hear that our troops are ...

    Article : 94 words
  6. MINISTERIAL STATEMENT.

    LONDON, July 28, 3.10 p.m.—Replying in the House of Commons to some strong remonstrances upon the suppression of dispatches referring to "a regrettable incident," Mr. G. Wyndham, ...

    Article : 175 words
  7. THE HIGH TREASON BILL.

    LONDON, July 27, 12.50 p.m.—The Cape Premier, Sir J. Gordon Sprigg, obtained an incidental majority of four for the bill relating to high treason. ...

    Article : 59 words
  8. KRUGER'S LAST HOPE.

    LONDON, July 27, 1.24 p.m.—The Transvaalers announce that they will continue the guerilla campaign while awaiting the result of the Presidential election in the United States. ...

    Article : 44 words
  9. TENSIONS FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.

    LONDON, July 29.—The Imperial Government proposes to ask Parliament to vote small pensions to all widows and orphans of soldiers killed in action or dying of wounds or disease ...

    Article : 39 words
  10. THE MERRIWA TRAGEDY.

    Our issue last week contained the brief announcement that the blacks had perpetrated two murders at Poggy, near Merriwa. The tragedy occurred about 11 a.m., on Tuesday, July 24, at ...

    Article : 245 words
  11. MIDDELBURG EVACUATED.

    LONDON, July.28.—It is officially announced that the Boers have evacuated Middelburg. They are making a disorderly trek, and the roads are blocked. ...

    Article : 164 words
  12. HUNTER'S SUCCESSES.

    LONDON, July 30.—Lieutenant-General Sir A. Hunter has captured Commandant Piet de Wet, but the enemy's guns and waggons escaped through hilly country towards the Vaal River. ...

    Article : 116 words
  13. RUSTENBURG STILL BESIEGED.

    LONDON, July 30, 1 p.m.—Commandant De la Rey, with a large force, is still besieging Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell in Rustenburg, in the Western Transvaal. ...

    Article : 52 words
  14. BOTHA AT MACHADODORP.

    LONDON, July 30, 1 p.m.—General Botha, the Boer Commander-in-Chief, is at Machadodorp, the "capital" of the Transvaal, with 100 men. His late followers are starving, ragged, and ...

    Article : 41 words
  15. AUSTRALIANS.

    LONDON, July 25.—Private A. Firth, of the Tasmanian Mounted Infantry, was severely wounded at Bethlehem. Private L. H. Haywood, of the New South ...

    Article : 508 words
  16. More Invalid

    The Karamea brought back 110 invalided Australian soldiers. She reached Hobart on July 25. The South Australians and Victorians left next morning by train for Launceston, where they ...

    Article : 313 words
  17. THE MURDER OF FITZPATRICK.

    MUDGEE, July 26, 5.30 p.m.—The two aboriginals, Jimmy and Joe Governor, are still prosecuting their murderous careers. About 11 o'clock this morning they added another to their list of ...

    Article : 138 words
  18. SEVERE FIGHTING.

    LONDON, July 27.—There has been severe fighting in the Orange River Colony. Lieutenant-General Hunter attacked the Boers, who occupied strongly entrenched positions in ...

    Article : 331 words
  19. CAPTURE OF UNDERWOOD.

    LEADVILLE, July 27—Jack Underwood, the aboriginal, who, Mrs. Governor stated at the inquest on the bodies of the Mawbey family at Breelong, committed in conjunction with her ...

    Article : 190 words
  20. ON THE TRACK.

    GULGONG, Saturday, 10.30 p.m.—Have just arrived from Wollar. The white tracker, Bell, picked up the tracks of the Governors' fifteen miles from the scene of the Fitzpatrick outrage. The ...

    Article : 179 words
  21. The A.M.P. Society.

    The meeting of members of the A.M.P. Society convened to consider the proposed amendment of the bylaws, in order to permit of the extension of the society's business outside Australasia, was ...

    Article : 216 words
  22. ENGAGEMENT NEAR THE VAAL.

    LONDON, July 26.—Brigadier-General Broadwood on Tuesday attacked the Boers who were entrenched on the hills south of the Vaal. He took twenty prisoners and captured seven ...

    Article : 54 words
  23. BLOODHOUNDS IN PURSUIT.

    MUDGEE, Monday Morning.—As wired on Saturday, when news arrived here that blacks had been seen near Home Rule at daylight, and were making towards Wilbertree, an armed party went ...

    Article : 337 words
  24. THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICS.

    LONDON, July 26.—In Committee of Supply in the House of Commons last night, on the vote for the Colonial Office, an amendment to reduce the amount was rejected by 208 votes to 52. ...

    Article : 110 words
  25. THE BOER DELEGATES.

    LONDON, July 25, 11.15 p.m.—Dr. Leyds has presented the Boer peace delegates to M. Loubet, the French President. ...

    Article : 21 words
  26. THE WOMEN FROM PRETORIA.

    LONDON, July 24, 1.22 p.m.—Mrs. Kruger, the wife of President Kruger, Mrs. Botha, wife of the Boer Commander-in-Chief, General Louis Botha, Mrs. Meyer, wife of General Lukas Meyer, and 600 ...

    Article : 54 words
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