The Paris "Siecle" publishes" to-day a copy of a document which bears the signatures of one hundred thousand Frenchmen, who, in 1871, at the time ...
Article : 92 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller, in a despatch to the War Office, say a that Spion Kop was found to be too big a position to hold, and the water supply was ...
Article : 123 wordsThe London "Times" of this morning states that there is a strong probability that Ladysmith must fall. From a strategical point of view this ...
Article : 106 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Henry Buller, in a cable message to the British War Office authorities, states that the position of Major-General Sir Charles ...
Article : 396 wordsThe appointment of Major Jowsey, of Timaru to command the New Zealand Rough-Riders has been approved of It has been decided that the corps shall ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Long Tunnel Extended Company has voted £100 to the Patriotic Fund, which now amounts to over £7,000. Sydney, January 29. ...
Article : 37 wordsAll burghers from 15 to 60 have been called up at Pretoria. The shells used by the besiegers of Kimberley are of the very poorest class ...
Article : 396 wordsGeneral Merrier, the ex-War Minister, who played such a prominent part in connection with the Dreyfus case, has been elected a member of the French ...
Article : 36 wordsSixteen Australians who were taken prisoners by the Boers near Rensburg have arrived at Pretoria. ...
Article : 23 wordsIt is reported that the coming abdication of Kwang Hsu, the Emperor of China, is likely to imperil the policy of the "open door" in the Celestial ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Boers report that Dr. Jameson, the leader of the Jameson raid in 1896, has been wounded in the leg by a Boer shell. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe temperature is very high in Natal, the mercury registering 112 degree in the shade. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe British have occupied Thebits(1), an important position near Steynsburg, in Cape Colony. This will Facilitate communication ...
Article : 40 wordsLord Tweedmouth, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, and subsequently Lord Privy Seal and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the last ...
Article : 73 wordsThe remains of the Duke of Teck, who died on January 22, were interred to-day at Windsor. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Metropolitan Fire Brigade Fund, which is to be devoted solely to the wounded members of the Western Australian contingents and the sufferers by ...
Article : 108 wordsA Cape Town correspondent writes on December 21:—The newspaper "Volksstem" publishes a letter addressed to the Boer Minister of Mines by Gustavus ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Boers' account of the battle of Spion Kop is to the effect that four commandoes, whose advance was covered by Krupp, Creuzot, and Maxim guns ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Boers report that they have surrounded a squadron of Bethune's. Horse, in Natal, killing and wounding twenty, and capturing fifteen of the troopers. No ...
Article : 147 wordsMost disastrous bush fires have been sweeping over the different parts of the colony during the last two days. About one million acres of grass, six wool-sheds ...
Article : 459 wordsBy arrangement with the Indian Government, 350 picked mounted men have been despatched from Burmah, under orders for Durban. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Maori King arrived at 8.35 a.m. to-day with the Queensland contingent on board. One hundred of the men landed, and went to practise shooting ...
Article : 173 wordsGeneral Rieciotti Garibaldi, a son of the "Liberator," has offered to raise several thousand Italian volunteers for service in South Africa. ...
Article : 94 wordsA Cape Town correspondent writes on December 20:—Surgeon-Major Cox arrived here this afternoon with another batch of wounded from Modder River ...
Article : 177 wordsFurther particulars in regard to the capture of Spion Kop, last Tuesday night, show that the British were within 30 yards of the trenches before the ...
Article : 207 wordsThe first batch of the Imperial Yeomanry, numbering GOO, has sailed for South Africa. The men were previously inspected by the Prince of Wales. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe British press is very cool in the face of the discouraging news from Natal It insists that the British must redouble their efforts. ...
Article : 74 words("Fifty thousand plum puddings have been sent out for the troops at the front."—Daily Paper.) When you've eaten Christmas pudding—when ...
Article : 138 wordsThe manufacture of cartridges and shells is being vigorously carried out by the Boers, who are reported to be turning out 12,000 cartridges and 200 ...
Article : 35 wordsThis afternoon the first company for the bushmen's contingent was selected. It comprises 114 men. There are now 1,200 men under canvas at Randwick. ...
Article : 145 wordsThe son of Mr. E. Lunn, of Kirkgate, Wakefield, writes as follows:—I was in company with a sergeant in charge of some wounded Boer prisoners. One of ...
Article : 656 wordsGeneral Gatacre, whose patrols are reported to have joined those of General French at Steynsburg is safely holding all the passes in the Sterkstroom district ...
Article : 46 wordsDr. W. J. Leyds, the Transvaal's European representative, attended the dinner which was given yesterday by Prince. Hohenlobe-Schillingfurst, the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe news of the British reverse at Spion Kop was published in the French papers before it appeared in the British press. ...
Article : 33 wordsThere are no fresh cases of plague. M'Cann was not quite so well on Sunday, but he improved again to-day. The highest monument in the world ...
Article : 78 wordsSir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner for South Africa, has issued a proclamation, in which he declines to recognise the validity of any forfeiture of ...
Article : 64 wordsOwing to the absence of definite knowledge as to the time of the arrival of the steamer Surrey nothing can yet be fixed as to the farewell to the local ...
Article : 461 wordsA good deal of uncertainty prevails as to whether Major-General Sir Charles Warren really placed a British garrison on Spion Kop after the engagement ...
Article : 44 wordsTrooper Meehan a member of the New South Wales contingent, who was landed from the steamer Surrey suffering from typhoid fever, died in the ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 2 Feb 1900, Page 1
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