"Your own" has been suffering from a severe attack of influenza, and consequently he was unable last week to send yon his usual budget of news. However, things have been ...
Article : 541 wordsThe annual school picnic came off on Friday last in the presence of the usual large crowd that patronise this event. It is estimated there were over two hundred on the school ...
Article : 779 wordsThe debates in Parliament on the Transvaal contingent have shown a plentiful lack of dignity and thought. Some of the members have descended to bathos and baffoonery, ...
Article : 1,117 wordsA [?]ve battle in the neighbourhood of Kimberley is regarded as probable. The Boers surround the town, and have captured the water supplies. The garrison is supposed to be ...
Article : 42 wordsSeveral Boer commanders are required to ove[?] the Basutos and the Swazis, who are eager to join the fight. The Premier of Cape Colony is now working ...
Article : 105 wordsNotwithstanding the decisive defeat of the Boer army which crossed the Buffalo River, the Boer force under General Jonbert at Dannhauser pushed south to Glancoe and ...
Article : 49 wordsOne of the trumpeters attached to the force which drove the Boers out of Eland's Laagate, who was only 14 years of age, shot no less than three Boers with his revolver ...
Article : 149 wordsTHE scene of the battle, or rather series of battles, around Glencoe is shown in the above map of the locality. Impati Hill is located between G[?]encoe Junction and Dundee. The Buffalo River forms the boundary lines of Natal and the Transvaal on the east. Eland's Laangte, where the Boers made a gap in the railway line, is some twelve miles ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 105 wordsThe Cape authorities have impounded the sum of £150,000 in gold which was consigned to the Transvaal. A force of 500 Boers attacked an armoured ...
Article : 1,733 wordsTwo more transports with troops for South Africa left Southampton yesterday. ...
Article : 15 wordsDr. Cookburn was loudly cheered when he spoke of Australian federation at the Philadelphia Commercial Congress to-day. It is reported from Washington that no ...
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Advertising : 1,461 wordsNearly a11 the men who have been picked for the contingent are in camp, and are anxiously waiting the word to go. The Governor intends to entertain the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Italian barque Sophooles signalled Wilson's Promontory lighthouse keeper this morning that she passed the s.s. Gulf of Genoa with her shaft broken on September 22. The ...
Article : 45 wordsYou awake in the morning more tired th[?]n when you went to bed, with an unpleasant taste in the mouth, and the tongue coated and dry. Little appetite for breakfast—even what you eat ...
Article : 231 wordsAt a Banco Court, before Mr. Justice Boucaut, an action was brought by the present trustees under the will of the late Sir George Strickland Kingston to enforce the specific performance ...
Article : 142 wordsThe fighting at Eland Laagte station was of a much more serious nature than was at first stated. It involved the loss of 160 British killed and wounded, while the Boers lost about ...
Article : 428 wordsTwo of the small pox patients from the Afric[?] are dangerously ill. ...
Article : 16 wordsCranberry on the training track appeared sore. He walked rather short. ...
Article : 15 wordsSIR.—Kindly allow me a few lines in your widely circulated columns. I saw by last Saturday's Watch in a report of our show that the judge of blood stallions said that if I had ...
Article : 168 wordsEmily E. Saunders sued Donald Heaps for the maintenance of her illegitimate male child, of which Heaps was the alleged father. Mr. Davison appeared for the complainant, and Mr. ...
Article : 101 wordsThe V.A.T.C. brought their spring meeting to a successful issue on Saturday, when the Caulfield Cup came on for decision. This is a valuable stake, and is worth 2,000 ...
Article : 538 wordsJ. Flett v. F. Gardthausen.—Claim, £4 13s. 8d. Mr. Spebr appeared for the plaintiff, and an order by consent was made for £1 on October 2lst, and £1 per month from that date. ...
Article : 59 wordsPresent—Crs. Bridgland (Chairman), Nunan, Samwell, MacIntyre, Jackson, and Munro. Financial statement was as follows:—Receipts for September, £66 17s 8d.; owing by bank, ...
Article : 464 wordsIt is with deep regret I have to report the death of Mr. Richard Long, one of our most highly esteemed residents, at the age of 51 years. His death took place on Wednesday ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Boes force at Impati Hill was in command of General Meyer, a member of the Volkeread. It appears a division of Boers sent forward ...
Article : 225 wordsShearing in this district will be pretty general in the course of a few days, and the high pride at which wool keeps imparts an air of contentment upon familiar faces, which ...
Article : 240 wordsGeneral Joubert has taken up a position some distance north of the British camp at Glencoe Junction, and on Saturday set his artillery to work shelling the British camp at ...
Article : 60 wordsThe report that 1,500 Boers had been killed by the explosion of lyddite mines has not been confirmed, but there is ample evidence that the British troops there have been successful in ...
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Border Watch (Mount Gambier, SA : 1861 - 1954), Wed 25 Oct 1899, Page 3
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