Private A. L. Cameron, of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, has died from fever at Naauwpoort. ...
Article : 27 wordsHer Majesty the Queen will arrive in Dublin on April 4 in connection with her Irish visit. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe British troops under Lord Roberts have continued their triumphal march into the Orange Free State, with the result that its capital, Bloemfontein, has surrendered without any attempt having been made at resistance. Major-General French approached the town on Monday, and sent a message intimating ...
Article : 460 wordsThe news of the British victories has made the wives of the burghers anxious for their husbands to give up fighting, and return to their homes. ...
Article : 37 wordsMajor R. F. Rankin, a Queenslander, has been appointed second officer of the Australian Mounted Contingent, now at Norval's Pont. ...
Article : 29 wordsAccording to the London "Daily Telegraph," the favorite daughter of Abdul Hamid, the Sultan of Turkey, has eloped with a Turkish poet. ...
Article : 36 wordsFurther particulars concerning the recent attempt of the Boer prisoners, at Simon's Town, to effect their escape by digging a tunnel, show that the plot was ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Boers who retreated northwards from Colesberg are still entrenched on the north bank of the Orange River at Norval's Pont. ...
Article : 44 wordsThree of the London clubs have expelled the Duke-of Orleans owing to his action in having congratulated M. Willette, who caricatured Her Majesty the ...
Article : 91 wordsHer Majesty the Queen was overjoyed on hearing the news of the surrender of Bloemfontein, and ordered the intelligence to he forthwith published at ...
Article : 54 wordsColonel Gourko (a son of the famous Russian General), who is acting as the Russian military attache on the Boer Staff, has telegraphed to the Czar ...
Article : 59 wordsThe coolies have extinguished the fire at the Elands Laagte Colliery, which was ignited by the Boers on their retreat from. Ladysmith northwards to ...
Article : 46 wordsPresident Steyn, who fled from Bloemfontein, is now at Kroonstad, about 120 miles to the northward on the mainline to Pretoria. ...
Article : 46 wordsAt the weekly auction sales of Australasian tallow to-day, 543 casks were offered and 64 sold. Prices were unchanged. ...
Article : 26 wordsCaptain J. Rose, of the Perth Infantry, has been offered the command of the Western Australian unit of Imperial Bushmen now being raised, and he has ...
Article : 996 wordsIn commenting on the despatch from Presidents Steyn and Kruger and on Lord Salisbury's reply thereto, the prees is almost unanimous, the general ...
Article : 83 wordsThe special war correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" was the first-Britisher who entered Bloemfontein. He reports that, on Monday ...
Article : 237 wordsThus an Australian war correspondent:—It is no unusual thing to see members of the Australian Regiment walking about the camp in the costume ...
Article : 202 wordsPrivate Davey received his official discharge to-day. His character was given as "very good" The sub-committee of the Cabinet has practically completed ...
Article : 80 wordsThere was good competition at the London wool sales to-day, prices being unchanged. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 wordsThe Mayor was approached to-day, and requested to convene a public meeting to support the policy of the Imperial Government in dealing with the ...
Article : 108 wordsThe tin market has slumped, owing to "bear" sales. The price has fallen to £140. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe authorities at Pretoria profess to be bitterly disappointed at Lord Salisbury's unfavorable reply to the Presidents' despatch. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe visible wheat supply in America to the east of the Rocky Mountains is 83,935,000 bushels, against 85,579,000 bushels a week ago. ...
Article : 27 wordsAfter spending two days in careful inquiry on the spot, says a London "Daily Mail" correspondent at Creusot, I have no hesitation in saying that not only is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 54 wordsThe Premier has been informed by Lord Roberts that ten men of the first contingent have been invalided. ...
Article : 23 wordsPresident Kruger telegraphed the following message to a New York newspaper on the 13th inst.:—"The burghers will fight to the death ...
Article : 93 wordsThe London "Daily News" says:—The most vivid, if not the most exact, descriptions of the fighting going on in South Africa still come from the pen or ...
Article : 763 wordsA cable message has been received from Auckland giving Apia news up to the beginning of March. On Savaii and the adjacent small islands, on March 1 ...
Article : 139 wordsThe latest news from Mafeking is to the effect that Colonel Baden-Powell has sent a warning to Commandant Snyman, who is investing the place, that unless ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is stated that after the battle at Driefontein on Saturday last President M. T. Steyn fled from Bloemfontein towards the north. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph" telegraphed the news of the surrender of Bloemfontein to its correspondents in the various European capitals. An ...
Article : 57 wordsA force, consisting of the Cheshire Yeomanry and the Canadians, has proceeded to Prieska, in the neighborhood of which the rebels have again been ...
Article : 71 wordsMajor-General Lord Methuen is at Boshof, a town in the Free State, 40 miles to the north-east of Kimberley. He has seized several guns and 70,000 ...
Article : 39 wordsThe proprietors of the London "Daily Telegraph" have decided to devote from their fund to the Australian Local Patriotic Fund the proceeds of the sale of ...
Article : 48 wordsThe main railway line to Bulawayo has now been re-opened to a point 30 miles north of Kimberley. Trains are running, and the line is in full working ...
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Advertising : 34 wordsThe War Office have just received a despatch stating that Field Marshal Lord Roberts, in command of the British troops in South Africa, has arrived at ...
Article : 53 wordsThe rebel movement is collapsing in the Herschel district, in the northeastern portion of Cape Colony, near, Barkly East. ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. George Wyndham, Under-Secretary for War, in reply to a question, stated that 12,000 remounts bad been sent to ...
Article : 59 wordsOn the British, troops advancing on Bloemfontein Major-General Hector, MacDonald ordered the pipers to play. They struck up martial Scottish airs ...
Article : 38 wordsA letter has been received through Mr. George Gibson, cab-driver, of the Central Railway Station, Newcastle, from Private J. J. Arnold, of the Royal ...
Article : 230 wordsLord Roberts has sent the following despatch to the British War Office, under date of March 13:— "By the help of God, and the bravery ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 23 Mar 1900, Page 2
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