Private T. Ashworth, of the First Western Australian, Contingent, Writing to his parents from a farm near Colesberg, March 7, describes a narrow escape ...
Article : 637 wordsWhen Saturday came, and no fresh, cases of bubonic plague had been reported at Fremantle for about five days, many of the residents of the port ...
Article : 480 wordsThe latest news from Wepener, where a Britashi force, Under Major Dalgetty, is surrounded by the Boers, shows that the garrison has so far gallantly resisted. £he enemy's attack. Both sides are well equipped with guns, and the firing has been heavy and continuous. On Thursday, the British, made a ...
Article : 213 wordsAn unsuccessful attempt was made yesterday by a number of Neapolitan children to derail a train by which the Prince and Princess of Naples were ...
Article : 111 wordsPrivate Robert Morris, of the New Zealand Roughriders' contingent, has died from enteric fever at East London. ...
Article : 25 wordsYesterday afternoon the acting principal medical officer (Dr. Harrey), the Special medical officer at Fremantle (Dr. Anderson), and Mr. A. Dillon Bell, of ...
Article : 333 wordsDr. W. J. Leyds, the Transvaal Government's representative in Europe, met the Boer peace delegation at Milan, in Italy, when the sealed instructions ...
Article : 99 wordsOne thousand quickfiring guns are being manufactured to the order of the Russian Government. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn connection with the cleansing of the house in which Sydney Wilson, the second, victim to the bubonic plague at Fremantle, resided, in South-terrace, at ...
Article : 341 wordsThe Paris Exhibition was opened yesterday by President Loubet. The weather was beautiful, brilliant sunshine preparing and the scene at the opening ...
Article : 129 wordsIn a private letter written by General Buller, the British Commander in Natal refers in eulogistic terms to the qualities of the British, soldiers is the field. ...
Article : 109 wordsThe balance-sheet of the British and Australasian Trust and Loan Company, Ltd, has been published, and shows a profit of 23,637. It is proposed to pay ...
Article : 51 wordsReinforcements are rapidly reaching Lord Roberts at Bloemfontein. Batteries of artillery, many remounts, and large quantities of stores are also ...
Article : 31 wordsAt the engagement at Doom Spruit on March 31, Captain Nix, a Dutch military attache on the staff of the Boer general, was wounded, and fell into the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe nineteenth, annual session of the Grand Lodge of Western Australia was held at Northarn on Friday and Saturday last. In the unavoidable absence ...
Article : 609 wordsA meeting of the Fremantle Health Committee was held at the council chamber on Saturday afternoon, when there were present—The Mavor in the ...
Article : 733 wordsExporters of American, foodstuffs are complaining that their shipments to South Africa have been reduced. The reduction has been brought about ...
Article : 65 wordsThe brigade which is to be formed under Major-General Hutton, formerly New South Wales Commandant, and afterwards Commander of the Militia ...
Article : 281 wordsDr. E Black, R.M., the seting principal medical officer, who is attending the plague congress in the eastern colonies, telegraphed from Melbourne on saturday ...
Article : 75 wordsThe drastic measures which the health authorities decided to adopt when it became known that an outbreak of the plague had occurred at Fremantle were ...
Article : 598 wordsFurther particulars have been received in connection with the attack made by the Boers on Major Dalgetty' force at Wepener, close to the ...
Article : 101 wordsHie medical men who carried out the bacteriological examination on the tissues of the man Wilson, who died on Thursday morning, reported yesterday ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Great Northern Railway company, of England, has no fewer than 400 of its employes now serving at the front. The War Office has placed an order ...
Article : 431 wordsThe London "Times" says that Lord Roberts has re-arranged the commands. Major-General R. Pole-Carew is to command the Third Division, in the place ...
Article : 81 wordsStrict quarantine was enforced in connection with the steamers Anglian and Victoria-that is, all the mail matter, cargo, and passengers' luggage were put ...
Article : 57 wordsA special meeting of the works committee was held here yesterday afternoon to consider the suggestion of the Government that the Board of Health ...
Article : 193 wordsLord Roberts reports, that the enemy's movements in the south of the Free State have been checked. Wepener is still surrounded, but is ...
Article : 46 wordsTwo Afrikander rebels of Cape Colony have been tried by court-martial at Naauwpoort, and sentenced, the one to five and the other to ten years' penal ...
Article : 43 wordsThe health of the British, troops at Bloemfontein is good, and the climate is described as perfect. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn connection with the transport of the Imperial Bushmen's Contingent, it has been decided that the steamer Armenian shall convey the New South ...
Article : 145 wordsA British, force, under Major-General Sir H. E. Chermside, has occupied Reddersburg unopposed. [It was at Reddersburg that five ...
Article : 33 wordsTwo fresh cases of plague were reported on Saturday and two to-day, one being fataL There was also one death in quarantine. ...
Article : 112 wordsColonel Gordon, of South Australia. as aide-de-camp to the officer in charge of communications, will rank as a staff officer. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 20 Apr 1900, Page 10
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