It is not expected that the British will advance towards Kroonsted for the next few day, as the men and horses are bening given a thorough chance to recuperate before the long march and probable heavy fighting. It is thought that the first serious opposition will be encountered at Brandfort, as the Boers ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Berne tribunal, consisting of [?] Joseph Blaesi (Vice-President of the Swiss Federal Tribunal), M. Charles [?] (President of the Council of State. ...
Article : 191 wordsThe body of the late General Joubert is lying in state at Pretoria. The authorities refused to respect his wish for a private non-military funeral. ...
Article : 43 wordsColonel Drummond, with 3,000 mounted men, three batteries of artillery, and the material for pontoon bridges, traversed Barkly West on ...
Article : 39 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller is concentrating his forces at Elands Laagte, to the north of Ladysmith. ...
Article : 27 wordsLord Roberts has recalled Lord Methuen' column from Warrenton to Kimberley. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Transvaal Government has commandeered half a million sovereigns from five of the beaks doing business in Pretoria. Half of the amount was taken ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Michael Davitt, the Irish Nationalist who has been visiting Mr. F. W. Reitz at Pretoria, has gone to Kroonstad. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Premier has received despatches written by Major H. L. Pilkington, from Maitland Camp, near Cape Town, on February 28. The officer in command ...
Article : 406 wordsIt is stated that Russia, in response to the appeal of the Boer Presidents for mediation, began to sound the other Powers, with the view of presenting a ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. W. P. Schreiner, the Premier of Cape-Colony, unsuccessfully remonstrated with the Imperial authorities in connection with the proposal to deport the ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Delagoa award is two thirds lower than it was expected to be. The lengthy nature of the proceedings and the unsatisfactory award are regarded as ...
Article : 360 wordsA report of an interview with President Kruger has been published in the New York "World." President Kruger is reported to have ...
Article : 66 wordsThere were 135 horses on the lines at the camp at Karrakatta on March 30, and another 18 were expected during the night, m wiring 153 in all. This is more ...
Article : 160 wordsQuite a panic exists among a number of civil servants on the fields at the prospect of the Government inspecting the separation petition. Hundreds of ...
Article : 190 wordsIt is said thai President Kruger has succeeded in convincing the Boers that 150,000 foreign troops hare already been landed at Delagoa Bay to assist the two ...
Article : 39 words"The Army and Navy Gazette" writes: —"The present war is merciless on old and cherished traditions. Science made in Europe is being driven to the ...
Article : 422 wordsMany of the Australian troops are at tached to Major-General Clements column, which is marching from Norval's Port, on the Orange River, through the ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Boers who retreated northwards to Clocolane have returned to Ladybrand. They are now strongly posted at Platberg, towards Maseru, the ...
Article : 62 wordsOn March 30, a representative of this journal saw Mr. H. Ives (of Messrs. Morris and Co.), the chairman at the recent meeting of master tailors. With regard ...
Article : 264 wordsCaptain W. F. Hopkins, head of the medical staff attached to the First Victorian Contingent, Las died from typhoid fever at Naauwpoort, in Cape ...
Article : 73 wordsMajor Pilkington has also forwarded a despatch, dated Marek 2, from Cape Town. It is as follows:—"I enclose a letter of to-day's date from Mr. H. M. ...
Article : 318 wordsRussia is pressing the Government of Korea for the lease of land outside the settlement of Masanpo. [Russia endeavored last year to gain ...
Article : 306 wordsMajor-General Tucker's brigade and a portion of Major-General French's cavalry brigade are at the Glen camp, near the Modder River. ...
Article : 47 wordsLord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India, in his official report to the Imperial Government on the famine, states that the recent drought has depreciated ...
Article : 139 wordsSpeaking at a meeting of the National Liberal Federation at Nottingham yesterday, Mr. Herbert Gladstone, Liberal member for West Leeds, said that the ...
Article : 44 wordsIn the Canadian House of Commons at Ottawa, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, former Premier of the Dominion, expressed the hope that Canada would follow the lead ...
Article : 87 wordsThe railway bridge at Norval's Pont has been repaired, and the line is now open all the way from, the Cape to Bloemfontein. ...
Article : 33 wordsA letter from a private in the 1st Soots Guards, dated Modder River Camp, January 22, contains particulars of the life the British, troops, under Lord ...
Article : 711 wordsMajor-General French's cavalry horses, were not in a fit condition to go in pursuit of Commandant Olivier during his retreat towards Ladybrand, and it is to ...
Article : 42 wordsMajor Moor, of the First Western Australian Contingent, has forwarded to the Chief Staff Officer, Perth, the following letter, written by Corporal Gifford on ...
Article : 358 wordsLord Methuen reports that a strong Boer force sharply and fruitlessly attacked the British position at Warrenton on Wednesday. ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. George Wyndham, Under-Secretary for War, stated in the House of Commons yesterday that 10 commission in the Royal Artillery and 20 in ...
Article : 82 wordsLord Roberts has discovered £500,000 worth of Free State securities in the Government offices at Bloemfontein. It is not anticipated that the British ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 6 Apr 1900, Page 5
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