Dr. M'Inerney has received a cable message stating that his brother, who is a captain in the first Victorian contingent, has been slightly wounded, and is ...
Article : 103 wordsA great heat wave has been, experienced here this week. The highest temperature recorded was 124 degrees in the shade. In the principal offices ...
Article : 369 wordsThe work of delimitation of the Burmo Chinese boundary 'by the British and Chinese Commission, which has been proceeding for some time and is ...
Article : 97 wordsFurther particulars have, been received from Rensburg in connection with the death on February 9 of Mr. W. J. Lambie, the war correspondent of ...
Article : 243 wordsGeneral Buller has withdrawn from the neighborhood of the Tugela. River, and is now at Chieveley. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe British have seized Zoutpan's Drift, on the Orange River, lying ten miles to the east of the Orange River railway station. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Chinamen here have subscribed £60 towards the equipment of the rough-riders. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe New Zealand Government has floated £300,000 worth of 4 per cent. Treasury bonds, the term of currensy being two years. The minimum price ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Australian casualties reported to date, are as follow:- Killed. Trooper G. R. Bradford, New Zealand. private V. S. Jones, Queensland. Private D. C. M'Leod. Queensland. Trooper J. Connell, New Zealand. ...
Article : 257 wordsMafeking is reported to have been well on the 2nd inst. Lord Roberts has sent to the garrison a message promising speedy relief. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Foreign Commerce Committee of the United States Congress is in favor of granting a subsidy of 400,000 dollars (about£80,000), for twenty years, for ...
Article : 113 wordsNews has been received from Mafeking to the effect that the food supply is sufficient to last the garrison till June. ...
Article : 28 wordsA force of Boers with nine guns has arrived at Ngutu in Zululand. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe casualties sustained by General Sir Redvers Buller's forces on February 5, 6, and 7, during the attempt to force the road to Ladysmith, numbered 24 ...
Article : 63 wordsAn entertainment given by amateurs belonging to the British aristocracy, and consisting of a number of effective tableaux, was held at Her Majesty's ...
Article : 112 wordsSurprise and regret were expressed yesterday morning when it became known that the dead body of Mr. William Bowman Cadell secretary of the Weld ...
Article : 553 wordsAn election took place yesterday for the Rossendale Division of Lancashire, to fill the position vacated by Mr. J. H. Maden, who recently resigned. ...
Article : 75 wordsIt is believed that Field-Marshal Lord Roberts will command an Army Corps Cavalry Division at'Modder River. Major-General Sir H. E. Colvile ...
Article : 67 wordsAs brave a man as any is Major Rimington, head of the Imperial Corps of Guides (writes Julian Raiph in the London "Daily Mail"). "You may be ...
Article : 276 wordsA' severe blizzard has prevailed throughout England. The telegraph lines have been damaged, and the railways in many places ...
Article : 33 wordsA war correspondent, writing with reference to Colonel Baden-Powell's Boxing Day sortie at Mafeking, says: - It appeared from the majority of the ...
Article : 190 wordsThe British newspapers, in referring to the recent operations in the Colesberg district, express regret that the successes which have been gained from ...
Article : 118 wordsThe London "Times" of this morning says that the distinction which the Australian soldiers have gained in their recent engagements at Rensburg affords ...
Article : 120 wordsMr. Lambie was shot in the head, and died in a quarter of an hour. He was buried on the field where he fell. Commandant Delarey expressed his ...
Article : 44 wordsThe shareholders of the Castle Mail Packets Co. (Donald Currie and Co.) and the Union Steamship Company, have endorsed the scheme of ...
Article : 59 wordsThe number of Boer prisoners at Cape Town is 43S. The Victorian contingent, under Colonel T. Price, which, recently ...
Article : 50 wordsThe bushmen's committee, by its labors of the two previous days, had made a considerable hole in the number of applicants for bushmen's certificates. ...
Article : 1,007 wordsThe medical officer who has been attending the bubonic patient Payne was released from quarantine to-day. Payne will be set free in a day or two. ...
Article : 279 wordsAn auction sale of goods in aid of the Goldfields War Relief Fund was held here last night. It realised £140. The total amount of the fund to date is ...
Article : 37 wordsThe same correspondent writes:—A little later, when we were attending some further wounded, I called the attention of the field cornet to the fact ...
Article : 226 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons on the new military scheme, Mr. George Wyndham, Under-Secretary of State for War, deprecated a fuss being made ...
Article : 123 wordsOne of the Australian war correspondents writes from Modder River on January 6: -It may be interesting to some to know how, comparatively, the ...
Article : 171 wordsThe chief reason for the abandonment by the British of their position at Slingersfontein, near Colesberg, and their subsequent retirement to ...
Article : 156 wordsIn connection with the bushmen's contingent, there are 102 men in camp. Drilling is carried on assiduously. In regard to the transport of the ...
Article : 187 wordsThere was little betting to-night One thousand to 40 was laid against Sequence for the Newmarket Handicap, and Seahorse was backed at 100 to 12 ...
Article : 77 wordsThe German and Austrian newspapers consider the British military scheme, as enunciated by Mr. G. Wyndham in the House of Commons, to be ...
Article : 65 wordsSir Eedvers Buller is foad of telling how shy he felt when he joined his first regiment. For a long while his fierce expression, a mask for [?], earned ...
Article : 593 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 59 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 23 Feb 1900, Page 2
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: