In connection with the crossed of the Tugela River by the British, under General sir Redvers buller, on Monday last, it is stated that the Boers ...
Article : 144 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts explains that Major-General MacDonald fulfilled his mission before he retired to Modder River, as he dispersed the Boers, who ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. Gilbert Parker, the [?] writer, who was lately the guest of [?] Earl of Aberdeen at Haddo-house, [?] livered a lecture on December 28 to the ...
Article : 407 wordsThe work of enrolling the bushmen's corps will commence at 8 o'clock to-night at the Perth Drill-hall. The applicants will first of all have to submit ...
Article : 308 words"Le Siecle" says:—It is the Boers who have been preparing for and who have desired, the war in the hopes of realising their Programme of 1881—"Africa ...
Article : 231 wordsThe Boers report that there was heavy firing in the direction of Ladysmith on the night that the British recrossed the Tugela, namely that of February 7. ...
Article : 52 wordsPreviousely to the withdrawal of Major-General MacDonald and the Highland Brigade from Koodoosberg the Boers had deserted all their camps on ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Boers hare taken possession of the British magistracy at Isandlwana in Zululand. On hearing of the approach of the ...
Article : 119 wordsWriting to a friend in London from Modder River, an officer who is with Lord Methuen's force says:-. . . . "And so your chrysanthemums are out. ...
Article : 284 wordsA sum of £13,000,000 has been placed on the supplementary estimates, providing for the maintenance of 120,000 additional troops in South Africa. ...
Article : 29 wordsMrs. Messer acknowledges with thanks the receipt of the sum of £18. 3a Id. from the Misses Darlot and Muir, the proceeds of the sale held on Saturday at ...
Article : 84 wordsReuter's Telegram Company states that some foreign military attaches have left Cape Town for the front, where they will join Lord Roberts's staff. ...
Article : 34 wordsLord Roberts has arrived at Modder River from Sterkstroom. It 16 believed that a big engagement is pending, as Major-General French ...
Article : 51 wordsThe House of Commons has adopted the Address-in-Reply. The 200,000 troops referred to by Mr. J. Chamberlain in his recent speech ...
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Advertising : 1,214 wordsAt the battle on Monday, February 5, the British, under Major-General A. S. Wynne, made a feint attack on the left [?]. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Boers state that, on Tuesday last, the British sent out an armored train and 2,000 men from Chieveley, with the object of threatening the Boers' left ...
Article : 51 wordsA concert in aid of the War Relief Fund at Burbanks on Friday night realised £85. "The Absent-Minded Beggar" picture brought in £60 ...
Article : 39 wordsMajor-General Sir Cornelius F. Clery, commander of the Second Division, has broken down in health, and is returning to England. ...
Article : 300 wordsA proclamation has been issued, authorising the despatch of a bushmen's contingent, in two companies of 140 men each, and 400 horses. ...
Article : 47 wordsAccording to a secret memorandum of the Volksraad, the Boers have no fewer than 230 modern guns. ...
Article : 22 wordsA Cape Town despatch, of January 6 says:-A considerable number of Boer prisoners, who were captured recently at the action at Grasspan and Belmont ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Boers report that they shelled General Buller's forces heavily, and that the latter have again withdrawn across the Tugela River. ...
Article : 48 wordsOn Friday last 50 Australians and Tasmanians, under Captain C. St. Clair Cameron, commander of the Tasmanian contingent, made a reconnaissance near ...
Article : 249 wordsA Boer who was recently taken prisoner by the British has volunteered the statement that so many of the enemy's horses have been killed that the ...
Article : 47 wordsThroughout the colony to-day the majority of the churches made intercession for a speedy and righteous termination of the war in Africa. The ...
Article : 88 wordsNew York, January 6.—The Steamer Sabine sailed to-day for South Africa with over l,000,0001b. of canned beef and 500 tons of hay. Two other ...
Article : 195 wordsThe members of the New South Wales contigent were shelled by the Boers near Colescorp (Coleaberg or Cole's Kop), but escaped uninjured. ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, stated in the House of Commons last night, to answer to a question, that General Buller was not ...
Article : 74 wordsThe troops are now beginning to gather at Christchurch for the third contingent, which will leave Lyttelton next Saturday in the steamer Knight ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. P. L. Russell, of Carngham Station, about 15 miles to the west of Ballarat, has received a commission in the South Staffordshire Militia and ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Natal correspondent of the London "Daily New's" shows that after the British had crossed the Tugela by way of Moicn's Drift, on Monday last, and ...
Article : 147 wordsThe following is taken from a letter received from Port Nacol in the G.A.S. Essen by a sea captain at Fremantle:-Although the harber authorities here ...
Article : 319 wordsThe report of General Buller's retirement to the south of the Tugela River has been confirmed. ...
Article : 27 wordsA Cape Town correspondent, writing on January 6, says:—Mr. David Robert son has just arrived in Cape Town, after undergoing the novel experience of ...
Article : 629 wordsThe Highland Brigade, under Major-General Hector A. MacDonald, which advanced from Modder River last week in a north-vesterly direction, with, the ...
Article : 137 wordsParticulars -which have been received in regard to General Buller's retirement across the Tugela River show that the Boers were in great strength, especially ...
Article : 168 wordsPresident Steyn, of the Orange Free State, has promised to release Colonel Heary Averell Eagar, of the Royal Irish Rifles, as soon as he has sufficiently ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 16 Feb 1900, Page 6
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