Lord Chesham, who was formerly a captain in the 16th Lancers, is organising a force of 300 Yeomanry for service in South Africa. Lord Chesham ...
Article : 71 wordsThe London "Daily News" congratulates Mr. R. Seddon, the Premier of New Zealand, on the brilliant victory achieved by the Government at the ...
Article : 63 wordsA despatch received at the War Office from Lord Methuen states that the Boer losses at the battle of Magersfontein were nearly two thousand. ...
Article : 193 wordsMr. J. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, who is at present on a visit to Dublin, has received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) at ...
Article : 57 wordsLarge numbers of London and provincial volunteers are eagerly and enthusiastically responding to the proposal of the Cabinet to. raise a strong ...
Article : 85 wordsLord Harris, the newly-elected chairman, presiding over the ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Consolidated Goldfields of South Africa ...
Article : 261 wordsArrivals.-Wilcannia, steamer, from Sydney (October 3). Departures.-For Adelaide—Brabloch, ship. For Brisbane-Duke of ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Charters Towers Stock Exchange has telegraphed .£300 to the Government for the expenses of the second contingent. In the Legislative Assembly to-day ...
Article : 45 wordsFifteen thousand bushels of Australian wheat (new season's crop), to be shipped in January, are quoted at 28s. 3d. per quarter. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe cable from Durban to Aden, on the east coast of Africa, has been interrupted fay a cyclone at Delagoa Bay. Major-General Sir Charles Warren ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Australians now residing in Cape Town are providing comforts for their countrymen in the field, and trying to make things pleasant for than ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Agent-General has sent a cable message to the Premier stating that the British have been repulsed at every point except at ArundeL The British ...
Article : 168 wordsThe price of tin has fallen to £106 lOs. ...
Article : 19 wordsBrigadier-General J. H.Yule, who made the brilliant march from Dundee to effecta Jenetion with the British forces at ladysmith, and who is now broken down in health. ...
Article : 232 wordsThe Boers have been reinforced at Stormberg. They are busily engaged in entrenching the town. The enemy's force at Colesberg, to ...
Article : 42 wordsThe continental press acknowledges the dignity and calmness of the British in the face of the recent disasters, and refers to the remarkable heroism of ...
Article : 51 wordsImperial Consols have fallen to £99 5s. There are rumors of a large fresh sue. ...
Article : 35 wordsSeveral Kalgoorlie men have expressed their desire to be included in the next Western Australian contingent for service in the Transvaal, and they are ...
Article : 41 wordsMafeking, October 30.—After dinner on Sunday night Colonel Baden-Powell hoisted a red lamp on the commonage, which was the signal that Captain Fitz ...
Article : 264 wordsThe following news has been received from Samoa under date of December 15:-Mataafa and his followers generally disapprove of annexation. ...
Article : 170 wordsIt is stated that two arrests on charges of treason have been made in connection with General Sir William Gatacre's reverse at Stormberg on the 10th inst. ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Minister of Defence has authorised the immediate purchase of horses. If necessary, the contingent will be increased to 300. The Minister states that ...
Article : 278 wordsFollowing upon Dr. E. J. A. Haynes's letter, which appeared in "The Morning Herald" of Monday, and in which he recommended the ...
Article : 225 wordsOwing to the Boers in the vicinity having a big gun commanding the town, Major-General John D. P. French has been compelled to evacuate Vaal ...
Article : 40 wordsThe annual meeting of the Perth Licensed Victuallers' Association was held at the Criterion Hotel od Dec 19. afternoon, when the president ...
Article : 444 wordsReuter's Agency states that Mr. Winston Leonard Churchill, the special correspondent of the London "Morning Post," who was captured by the Boers ...
Article : 64 wordsFurther particulars have been received in connection, with the severe engagement at Tugela River on Friday last The Boers occupied an entrenched ...
Article : 160 wordsWhat are subjective symptoms in a patient. The question arose in connection with Crocker's claim for compensation against the Queen Margaret Gold ...
Article : 315 wordsThe London "Times" says that the information which was supplied to Major-General Lord Methuen with reference to the Boer position at ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. Webster Davis, Assistant Secretary for the Interior in the United States, has gone to the Transvaal in order to insist on America's ...
Article : 39 wordsA Mass was recently celebrated by the' Pope in memory of Sir William Penn [?]. The distinguished soldier visited Rome some time ago, when he was received ...
Article : 873 words"Englishman" writes:—Some remarks from an Englishman on Transvall matters may not be uninteresting. In the first place, guns are certainly ...
Article : 365 wordsIt having been proposed that pro Boer meetings should be "proclaimed" in Ireland, several riotous demonstrations were held or Sunday to protest ...
Article : 38 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, the newly-appointed British Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, and Major-General ...
Article : 69 wordsTo-day both Houses of Parliament unanimously passed a resolution in favor of a second contingent. The Labor party, which voted against the first ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Canadian correspondent of the London "Times" telegraphs that the Dominion "from ocean to ocean is afire with patriotic fervor." ...
Article : 52 wordsOn Monday the Government, through . His Excellency the Governor, sent the following cable message to the Secretary' of State for the Colonies:—The ...
Article : 470 wordsMr. Lyne brought forward a motion in tie Legislative Assembly to-day in favor of a second contingent. The motion was received with cheers. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 22 Dec 1899, Page 1
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