Considerable satisfaction will be felt at the rapture by the British troops at Elandslaagte of a large number of ex-soldiers from Germany and Holland, who had enlisted ...
Article : 385 wordsThe Express this morning publishes official correspondence between President Steyn and Sir Alfred Milner. In a despatch on September 27 the ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Cadet Corps here, which consists of boys aged from 14 to 16 years, has volunteered for service, and has been called out. Its members turned out very smartly, and ...
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Advertising : 1,000 wordsA big field day was held here today. Mafeking was attacked at about 11 o'clock by the B.S.A. Police under Colonel Walford, and the Protectorate Regiment ...
Article : 405 wordsIn a despatch on October 2, the President informs Sir Alfred Milner that he deemed it advisable, in order to allay intense excitement amongst the burghers ...
Article : 104 wordsThe President the same day expressed the conviction that the action of the Transvaal was only tho natural result of the continued increase of BtiliMi troops and their ...
Article : 44 wordsWe (Cape Argus) learn with unfeigned satisfaction that this morning the Town Council, not content with granting to the Refugee Relief Committee the free use of ...
Article : 197 wordsSir Alfred Milner replies october 3 that all movements of British troops were necessitated by the natural alarm of the inhabitants in exposed districts, and were ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. R. Chamberlain, acting editor of the Leader, has not been arrested yet. Under the heading of "The Runaway Leaders," the Rand Post wants to know ...
Article : 171 wordsGeneral Lukas Johannes Meyer, whose force of Boers was routed at Impati Hill, is a member for Vryheid in the First Volksra[?]d. He was born in the Free State in ...
Article : 198 wordsReplying on the same date, President Steyn states that he does not consider that there wera ever fair grounds for the move-, ments of British troops. On the contrary, ...
Article : 179 wordsA Gazette Extraordinary has been issued, notifying who can remain, British subjects included, and what are to be the stipulations should war occur. ...
Article : 318 wordsSome fun is being indulged in here at the expense of two Southern officers of the Defence Force, who took part in the demonstration in connection with the ...
Article : 250 wordsFarmers in town from the Buffalo state that the Boers are returning home, and leaving patrols along the river. Commandos are still on the Free State border. ...
Article : 269 wordsAt a meeting held on the 7th inst. of the Army and Navy Veterans' Association, the following resolutions were enthusiastically carried: ...
Article : 411 wordsThe Government published the following further correspondence between Sir Alfred Milner and President Steyn:- From High Commissioner, Capetown, to ...
Article : 274 wordsThe extraordinary election to fill the vacancy in the City Council, caused by the death of Alderman Barrett, will take place on November 23. Messrs. A. Jones and ...
Article : 134 wordsThe chief laager has been greatly swelled daily by accessions. Each day various commandos arrive by train, and long trains of waggons follow across the veldt. ...
Article : 376 wordsThis afternoon the whole of the Kimberley Garrison, Regulars, Volunteers, and Town Guard, 2,500 strong, paraded on Market-square. Thousands of spectators ...
Article : 260 wordsFrom State President, Bloemfontein, to His Excellency the High Commissioner. Capetown, October 5. In a long communication the States ...
Article : 158 wordsThe general committee of the Metropolitan Drainage Board yesterday had a long conference with a deputation from the Town Board of Queenborough on the ...
Article : 252 wordsThe banks at Germiston have refused to pay out any more coin. This measure is taken owing to the insurance companies refusing to carry out insurances on gold ...
Article : 207 wordsFrom High Commissioner, Capetown, to State Presideut, Bloemfontein, October 6. With reference to Your Honor's ...
Article : 140 wordsThe armoured train left this afternoon for patrol northwards, and consisted of one steel-plated locomotive in the centre and two rail-plated bogie trucks, named ...
Article : 276 wordsFrom State President, Bloemfontein, to High Commissioner, Capetown, October 6. I am earnestly desirous of meeting ...
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Advertising : 2,912 wordsThe German East, African liner General arrived from Delagoa Bay this afternoon with over 500 Transvaal refugees. Two transports arrived this morning, ...
Article : 79 wordsA message from Pretoria states that the Executive has had a draft proclamation of a new martial law under consideration, and that the Government has good reasons ...
Article : 209 wordsIn 1888 my wife went East and was attacked with rheumatism. She received no relief until she tried Chamberlain's P[?]in Balm. Since that time we have never been ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 31 Oct 1899, Page 4
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