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Advertising : 1,647 wordsThe Premier (Hon. N. E. Lewis) disclosed the Government policy to a meeting of his constituents in the local hall at Richmond on Saturday evening. The ...
Article : 5,077 wordsLord Roberts is actively organising forces, presumably for the Western campaign. Lord Kitchener has three squadrons ...
Article : 140 wordsThe MINISTER OF LANDS, who was also invited to speak, said:- I rise in response to your request, but you will not, I am sure, expect, ...
Article : 1,649 wordsMajor-General French is now at Capetown in consultation with Lord Roberts, Commander-in-Chief. Advices from Capetown urge that ...
Article : 40 wordsSir Redvers Buller's corps have all been served with double rations. This is taken as indicating preparation for heavy work. ...
Article : 106 wordsCopies of Kipling's "The Absent-Minded Beggar" poem obtainable at The Mercury office and at all agents, sixpence. Gress proceeds given to the fund. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Times correspondent at Storkstroom, jun[?]tion of the East London and Aliwal railway, states that the Boers are distributing pamphlets, ...
Article : 51 wordsForty-five men have handed in their names to the Mount Lyell Standard as volunteers for the proposed Bushmen Corps. A large proportion are willing to ...
Article : 96 wordsThe British flying column has reached northern Zululand, to the eastward of Vryheid. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Capetown branch of the Afri[?]ander Bond, with Mr. Hofmeyr presiding, has condemned Great Britain's action towards the Cape in ...
Article : 42 wordsIn all probability Lieut-Colonel Kelly will be appointed officer commanding the Bushmen Corps. The Premier has cabled to the Secretary ...
Article : 763 wordsIt has been ascertained that 40 of the British reported to have been killed at Magersfontein are prisoners in the hands of the Boers. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. Jourddan, who is Private Secretary to Mr. Cecil Rhodes, has been treacherously captured while carrying verbal messages to the enemy's camp. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Brisbane Courier publishes an extract from a private letter from a member of the Queensland first contingent, which gives fresh details about the disaster to the ...
Article : 1,291 wordsThe British shot a corporal of the Irregulars during the Spion Kop engagement for shaking hands with an acquaintance who was in the enemy's ...
Article : 28 wordsThe flying column now organised consists of experienced colonials and scouts, and will probably be detailed off to harass Transvaal communications above ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Boers are evidently still kept well informed of every movement projected by the British commanders. A thousand Boers, with three guns, ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Daily Mail says the Government proposes to form fifteen n[?]w battalions of infantry. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Times announces that supplementary army estimates to the extent of twenty millions sterling will be placed before the House of Commons to cover ...
Article : 33 wordsLord Methuen's intentions are kept secret, but there are indications that the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth divisions will shortly reinforce his army, ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Queen is deeply touched and gratified with the message received from the Mayor of Mafeking, dated 27th ult, which was the hundredth day ...
Article : 46 wordsVictorian Crosses have been conferred on the late F. Roberts, son of Lord Roberts, Captains W. Congrove and H. L. Reed, and Corporal Nurse, of ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. John Mathias, a well-known stock dealer of Pulaski, Ky., says:—"After suffering for over a week with flux, and my physician having failed to relieve me, I ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 5 Feb 1900, Page 3
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