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Advertising : 863 wordsArrivals.—Johannesburg, steamer, 2,819 tons, from Melbourne (December 30): Gulf of Martaban, steamer, 1,725 from Brisbane (December 9) ...
Article : 87 wordsBrigadier-General Brabant and his colonial force hare been completely victorious in the operations near Dordrecht. ...
Article : 34 wordsMajor-General French frustrated an attempt which was made by a body of Boers to trek towards the north-west. Lord Roberts reports that the Sixth ...
Article : 125 wordsThere is little fresh fighting to report from the western frontier. The location of Lord Robert's forces is explained, the Sixth and Seventh Divisions being to the north, where there is abundant feed for the horses. It is said ...
Article : 415 wordsSir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequar, delivered his Budget Speech in the House of Commons last night. ...
Article : 192 wordsPresident Kruger has arrived at Bloemfontein on a visit to President Steyn. He has issued a fervid appeal to the ...
Article : 42 wordsA Paris telegram states that M. Delcasse, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and M. Ribot, who was Premier in 1895, have publicly deprecated the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Boers are extending their entrenchments at Pretoria, and are working hard in completing the defences of the town, in view of the possibility of an ...
Article : 41 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller has 40,000 men under his command in Natal. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe war loan bonds or stocks are being issued by the Government at a fixed price. The term of their currency id not to exceed ten years. ...
Article : 39 wordsQuite a sensation was created by Cr. T. O'Beirne at last Tuesday's meeting of the Fremantle Municipal Council. He said that he had it on the best authority ...
Article : 404 wordsThe names of all the Natal Dutch serving with due Boers were discovered on a document left behind by the enemy in their flight from Mount Bulwana to ...
Article : 141 wordsAlthough the Budget proposals of the Government are not likely to be seriously opposed, the "Times," the "Standard," and the "Morning Post" regret ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Mikado of Japan has congratulated Queen Victoria on the recent successes achieved by the British in South Africa. ...
Article : 31 wordsAt the Karrakatta camp on Tuesday there was no difference between the day's drill and that of previous days. The final selection of men will not be made ...
Article : 1,148 wordsSir Michael Hicks-Beach, in his speech, adhered to his statement of October 23 of last year as to the capacity of the Transvaal to bear a reasonable ...
Article : 383 wordsThe Boers who were lately engaged in the siege of Ladysmith are now recuperating on the Transvaal border. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe casualties sustained by General Buller's rank and file from February 14 to February 27 were as follow:—Killed, 127; wounded, 919; missing ...
Article : 170 wordsThe city was en fete this afternoon. It is estimated that fully 100,000 people witnessed the procession of the Bushmen's Contingent. Balconies and ...
Article : 126 wordsA strong British force, including the Kimberly. Light Horse, has marched northwards from Kimberley. It is expected that resistance will be ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is reported that some of the prisoners who were taken when General Cronje capitulated at Koodoosland attempted to escape on the railway ...
Article : 65 wordsA loaded revolver is not an acceptable "exhibit" in a judicial trial, and when, in the Criminal Court on Tuesday, a policeman produced one from his ...
Article : 244 wordsMarital las has been proclaimed by the British at Prieska, Kenhardt, Britstown (near De Aar), and Barkly West. ...
Article : 25 wordsA cable message has been receives by Mr. Lyne from the Premier of New Zealand, stating that that colony will sent 500 men as its second Bushmen's ...
Article : 299 wordsIn military circles it is anticipated that General Joubert will experience some difficulty in concentrating 35,000 men in the Orange Free State. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe mobilisation of a powerful reserve fleet has been commenced at Torbay, on the coast, of Devonshire. ...
Article : 27 wordsOn February 25 the Boers evacuated Crocodile Pools, 92 miles to me north of Mafeking. Colonel H. C. O. Plumer thereupon ...
Article : 37 wordsReuter's agent at the Cape cables to the effect that the Boers evacuated Stormberg on Sunday night. ...
Article : 27 wordsIt is estimated that the All-British-Pacific cable will cost £1,400,000. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe latest reports as to the movements of the Boers are to the effect that five thousand men belonging to the Ladysmith and Colesberg commandos ...
Article : 64 wordsRobert Walker died at the quarantine station this morning. He was the fourth victim. The others are well, and those who had been associated ...
Article : 48 wordsMafeking news, dated February 19, says that the Boers who are besieging the town are using natives, Germans, and renegade British. ...
Article : 29 wordsMajor-General Sir W. F. Gatacre he moved northwards from Sterkstroom and has occupied Stormberg. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 9 Mar 1900, Page 15
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