A force of 350 Boers is reported to have captured Mgwairima, in. Zululand. A larger commando is said to have burned Bremersdorp, in Swaziland, ...
Article : 98 wordsA Boer artillery officer attempted, during the temporary truce on Thursday last, to spy out the defences of Ladysmith, and to ascertain the amount of ...
Article : 107 wordsIt is stated that an important arrangement has been, made between the British, and German Governments in respect to Samoa. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe annual regatta of the Western Australian Rowing Club was held in the Canning River on Nov. 9, and was fairly well patronised the steamers of the ...
Article : 783 wordsSir Andrew Clarke, Agent-General for Victoria, and Mr. W. P. Reeves, AgentGeneral for New Zealand, who are on a visit to Canada, after their attendance ...
Article : 107 wordsThe text of the agreement between the British and German Governments has been officially made known. Britain is to renounce the islands of ...
Article : 175 wordsA Sydney contemporary, says: Inspector Lenthall, of the metropolitan licensing district, has just received a letter from a brother of his, Mr. Claude ...
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Article : 483 wordsThree thousand burghers, with a large number of German artillerymen, have left Pretoria, to defend the Orange Free State frontier. They are taking with ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Czar and Czarina of Russia visited the Emperor and Empress of Germany yesterday, at the Imperial Palace, PotsĀdam, Prussia. ...
Article : 70 wordsFurther particulars regarding the heavy defeat of the Boers between Ladysmith and Colenso on Friday last have been received. ...
Article : 135 wordsThe death, is announced of Mr. Jacob Bright, who was for many years Liberal member for Manchester. Mr. Jacob Bright, who was born, in ...
Article : 99 wordsA private letter states that rents and the prices of provisions have gone up tremendously at Cape Town owing to the influx of refugees. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe German press generally is satisfied with the Samoan agreement. The British newspapers also approve, pre-supposing that Australasia was ...
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Article : 800 wordsAfter the defeat of the Boers at the battle of Elands Laagte on Friday, October 20, the whole of the Johannesburg garrison was ordered io the front. ...
Article : 103 wordsLast Friday a boating accident took place on Melville Water, near Perth. The occupants of the boat were Hugh Anderson and Frederick William; ...
Article : 509 wordsThe United States Government does not oppose the arrangement entered into between Great Britain and Samoa, though it would have preferred to have ...
Article : 50 wordsAn armored train with the Dublin Fusiliers on board left Estcourt for the north after the defeat of the Boers on Friday last. ...
Article : 78 wordsSir George Turner, when interviewed tonight in respect to the Anglo German agreement, said that he had received, through the Governor, a ...
Article : 177 wordsThe London "Daily Chronicle" states that five members of the contingent of New South Wales Lancers are returning to Australia, en account of their ...
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Article : 269 wordsThe members of the Royal Colonial Institute and the British Empire League have passed resolutions expressing their extreme gratification at ...
Article : 98 words"When I first met Colonel BadenPowell," said an extrooper of the Bechuanaland Border Police who has just arrived in Melbourne, "I was at Bulawayo, ...
Article : 562 wordsLord Lamington, the Governor of Queensland, accompanied by Lady Lamington, has arrived at Marseilles in the R.M.S. Orizaba. ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is reported that 20 members of the Band Auxiliary Corps were shot by the Boers after the battle of Elands Laagte, on the ground that they had been guilty ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Earl of Longford was married yesterday at St. George's, Hanover square, London, to Lady Mary Julia Child Villiers, the second daughter of ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 17 Nov 1899, Page 2
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