An Incident ot Sea.—On December, 27th, when the G.M.S. Bremen was about 20 miles north of the Leeuwin, a barque carrying no canvas ...
Article : 1,006 wordsA valuable medical discovery in connection with the treatment of alcoholism is reported from Paris. Drs. Thebot and Kepler, of that city ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Cape Mounted Rifles captured 1,000 cattle and 2,000 sheep at Belmont, to the north of the Modder River. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe work of enrolling candidates as members of the Western Australian Mounted Infantry for service in the Boer war was completed on Dec. 28, ...
Article : 468 wordsIn connection with the escape of Mr. Winston Churchill, the war correspondent, from Boer custody, it is stated that he did not attempt to get away ...
Article : 177 wordsA goldfields war relief fund has been inaugurated by the Mayor of Coolgardie, who has communicated with the mayors and chairmen of the road ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Lavigno. the Vienna correspondent of the London "Times," states that numbers of Russian troops are being drafted in the direction of Afghanistan. ...
Article : 64 wordsIt is explained that General Gourko, the famous Russian general, whose departure for Delagoa Bay was recently announced, is to represent Russia on ...
Article : 45 wordsA man a in a trench is just as safe from a shower of rifle bullets as if he were behind the walls of a fortification indeed, it has been shown that ...
Article : 359 wordsThe offer of the Indian Government to send two batteries to South. Africa has been accepted by the British authorities. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Chinese Government has compiled with the French demands in connection with the murder of two French officers at Kwong-chau-wan. ...
Article : 95 wordsLord Roberts, the new Commander-in-Chief, has arrived at Gibraltar from London in the steamer Dunottar Castle. He was joined there by Lord ...
Article : 63 wordsThe firm of Armstrong and Co., ordnance manufacturers of Elswick, Newcastle-on-Tyne, is hastily engaged in transforming a battery of ...
Article : 57 wordsThe balance-sheet of the North British Australasian Co., Limited, of 10 Moorgate-street, London, E.C., has been published. ...
Article : 37 wordsLord Methuen's artillery at Modder River has thrown a few shells in the direction of the Boer camp, without, however, eliciting a reply. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Boers have constructed bombproof ways leading from the fortified kopjos on the month side of the Tugela River at Colenso. westward to the ...
Article : 94 wordsHarry Jones, alias Muir, has been extradited to South Australia on the charge of having defrauded Michael Connell of the sum of £345 in [?] ...
Article : 426 wordsThe undermentioned are the names of those already enlisted as members of the Western Australian Mounted Infantry for service in South Africa. The names are subject to ...
Article : 1,261 wordsGeneral Cronje, who is already reported to Lave 20,000 men under his command at Modder River and Magersfontein, has received still ...
Article : 81 wordsAccording to the London "Daily Chronicle," the colonial troops who are with Lord Methuen's forces to the north of De Aar Junction are stationed as ...
Article : 104 wordsIn the absence of any special news of fighting numbers of strange rumors are getting into circulation at the Cape and finding their way into Eglish papers ...
Article : 436 wordsMajor Robert George Broadwood, of the 12th Lancers, is to command Warren's Irregular Horse, which is being organised in Cape Town. ...
Article : 91 wordsOn Tuesday last General Sir George Stewart White shelled the Boer position on Mount Umbuiwana from Ladysmith. ...
Article : 128 wordsSeven hundred and forty-four men had been accepted and passed into camp up to last evening. To-day 98 had been accepted for the mounted ...
Article : 98 wordsIn addition to depending the water at the two fords over the Tugela River by placing dams across the stream, the Boers stretched barbed wire at the ...
Article : 97 wordsThe steamer Woolloomooloo, 3,521 tons, of the Lund Line, has been engaged by the British Government to transport stores to the Cape. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe important work of selecting the members of the second Victorian contingent from the aggregate muster is certainly encouraging. Out of 119 men ...
Article : 113 wordsA corps of 500 irregulars is being organised at East London, in Cape Colony. One thousand volunteer veterans have ...
Article : 32 wordsThe second battalion of the Lancaster Regiment, under Lieut-Colonel M. E. Crofron, and the second battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, under ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsCaptains Kirkwood and Grenfell, of the Imperial Light Horse, have both been captured by the Boers while out scouting near Chieveley. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe siege of Kuruman, in British Bechuanaland, 120 miles to the east of i Vryburg, has been raised by the Boers. The place has been defended by the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe authorities say that there would be no difficulty in raising another 120 men for South Africa if necessary. The applications far exceed the number ...
Article : 43 wordsA number of fruit, dairy, and produce firms, of Liverpool, have entrusted Mr. Whittle with a mission to Australia, in order to develop direct shipments of ...
Article : 42 wordsA London paper says:—Lord Ripon, addressing a meeting at Bolton lately, said that we all felt proud of the qualities being displayed by our soldiers in ...
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Advertising : 227 wordsPublic meetings in various parts of the colony have passed resolutions urging the Government to despatch more men to the Transvaal than is at present ...
Article : 96 wordsSixteen thousand bushels of Victorian wheat to be shipped in January are quoted at 28s. 6d. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 5 Jan 1900, Page 2
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