The Departmental Committee of the Treasury reports that the scheme recommended by the committee appointed by the House of Commons to provide ...
Article : 60 wordsLady Hampden, the wife of Lord Hampden, formerly Governor of New South Wales, has sent 2,311 articles of clothing, 2501b of tobacco, 300 pipes ...
Article : 50 wordsGeneral Buller is at last able to report that the colony of Natal is clear of the Boers after its norther portions had been overrun by the invaders for the space of over four months. In the circumstances there is, of course, no fighting to report, as the British are not yet in a position to follow the retreating ...
Article : 430 wordsA Cape Town despatch states that the members of the Afrikander Bond pro-pose to send a deputation to Canada and Austraila to promote the ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is reported from Ladysmith that 400 Boer women visited Pieter's Hill on February 27 to celebrate the anniversary of Majuba HilL. ...
Article : 105 wordsAt Karrakatta, March 7, the Commandant discharged five men from the Bushmen's Contingent for bad horsemanship. Major Campbell states that the balance ...
Article : 3,049 wordsDr. W. J. Leyds, the Transvaal's agent in Brussels; affirms that the Legislative Assembly of Cape Colony will shortly vote strongly in favor of the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe foresight displayed by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in not disturbing the continental trade with Britain by the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe resolution in regard to the war loan of £30,000,000 was agreed to by the House of Commons last night by 161 votes to 26. ...
Article : 55 wordsAccording to an official estimate, the relief of the garrison at Ladysmith by the British forces under General Sir Redvers Buller cost 5,000 officers and ...
Article : 47 wordsThe members of the Second New-Zealand Contingent, who arrived at Cape Town in the steamer Waiwera, are leaving for the front. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Austrian sugar refiners are agreeably surprised at Sir Michael Hicks-Beach having refrained from imposing a differentiating duty on Austrian ...
Article : 34 wordsGeneral Buller's relieving army made a triumphant march past General Sir George Stewart White at Ladysmith. The Dublin Fusiliers, who were ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Basutos are reported to be wildly jubilant over the recent British victories at Koodoosrand and in Natal. ...
Article : 28 wordsAlves's smoke consumer has been floated, a company having been formed for the purpose with a capital of £100,000. ...
Article : 28 wordsMajor James Traill, an Australian, has been appointed to the staff of Major-General Sir Frederick Carrington. ...
Article : 24 wordsIt is probable that Mr. Alfred Deakin, of Victoria, and Mr. Edmund Barton, of New South Wales, two of the Australian delegates who have proceeded to ...
Article : 67 wordsGeneral Buller reports that Natal is now clear of the enemy. ...
Article : 22 wordsLord Hindlip, extra aide-de-camp to Lord Brassey, the Governor of Victoria, is proceeding to England with Lord Brassey, on board the latter's yacht, the ...
Article : 75 wordsAt an auction sale held in Ladysmith, on February 21, just one week before the relief of the town, very high prices were obtained for the various articles of ...
Article : 86 wordsA terrible explosion has taken place at the Redash Colliery, in Fayette County, West Virginia (U.S.A.). One hundred miners were entombed ...
Article : 50 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts has accepted the position of honorary colonel of the Lord Mayor's City of London Volunteers. ...
Article : 24 wordsDuring the siege of Ladysmith there were no fewer than 800 cases of typhoid fever. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsMr. A. G. Hales, special correspondent of several Western Australian papers and the London "Daily New," who was captured by the Boers near Rensburg ...
Article : 75 wordsA reconnaissance made by the New South Wales Lancers and the Inniskilling Dragoons has disclosed the fact that the Boers are concentrated four miles ...
Article : 79 wordsThe body of the late Major G. A. Eddy, of the Victorian Contingent, who was killed daring the fighting as Rensberg last month, has been recovered, and ...
Article : 53 wordsThe regular meeting of this chamber was held on March 7 at the rooms of the secretary (Mr. J. Phair). There was a good attendance of members. A letter ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Ameer of Afghanistan has held a durbar, at which most of his chiefs were present. He expressed his willingness to send ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Boers fought very stubbornly in the recent engagements near Dordrecht, but in the end were defeated by the British, who sustained 30 casualties. ...
Article : 58 wordsIt is stated that the burgher prisoners in the hands of the British, and many of the Boers who are still in the field, are eager to obtain copies of the ...
Article : 109 wordsAn incident is related in connection with the seizure by Major C. Maxwell of a Boer position to the north of Dordrecht on Sunday last. ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. J. Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary, situated in the House of Commons yesterday that he was glad to be able to announce that his recent request ...
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Advertising : 34 wordsBrigadier-General Brabant's forces at Dordrecht numbered 1,800, including some members of the Cape Mounted Police and the Royal Scots Greys. ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Berlin and Paris newspapers are much impressed by Britain's determination to subjugate the Boers. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Boers who are occupying the position facing Osfontein are busy mounting their guns and entrenching. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Boers are still in the hills in Cape Colony to the south of the Orange River. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 9 Mar 1900, Page 13
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