Yesterday, being Good Friday, was observed as a close holiday in the city and in the Anglican, Roman Catholic, German Lutheran, and other churches, solemn services ...
Article : 2,109 wordsFurther particulars of Colonel Plumer's fight on 31st March, near Mafeking, show that he very nearly succeeded in effecting the rescue of the beleaguered town. ...
Article : 186 wordsA fatal drowning accident occurred at Brighton yesterday. A boat belonging the H.M.S. Desperate containing six sailors capsized, all the men being ...
Article : 43 wordsLord Roberts has warned the Dutch in northern Cape Colony that, unless they are quiescent, they will be rigorously court. martialled. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Rev. Mr. Schroelder, a rebel, and a member of the Cape Assembly, has been arrested and brought to Upington. ...
Article : 25 wordsAt the meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute last night Sir John Colomb, M.P., read a paper entitled "British Defence." Admirai Sir Anthony. Hoskins, formerly in command on the ...
Article : 263 wordsThirty leading rebels in the Aliwal north district have been brought on to Queenstown. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe newspapers commend Lord Roberts on his new treatment of those guilty of sedition. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe leave of the Cape public service volunteers expired on the 19th inst., and they have been recalled by the Schreiner Government. It is alleged that; a great pressure of work in ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. Edward Murphy, the member for renhelp in the Legislative Assembly, this evening from dropsy and internal plications. ...
Article : 1,296 wordsMR. Joseph Hector Carruthers, formerly Colonial Terasurer and Minister for Railways in the Reid New South Wales Government, in a letter to the "Times" declares that the ...
Article : 63 wordsGreat Britain has urged that an extension of leave be granted, and if Mr. Schreiner refuses to grant it the majority will return to the front and forfeit their positions. ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is understood that the 5th Brigade, under Major-General Hart, will reinforce Lord Roberts at Bloemfontein. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. Abraham Fischer, the Boer peace delegate, who recently arrived at Natal,. on being interviewed declared that Sir Alfred Milner went to the Cape entrusted with the specified ...
Article : 78 wordsThe conference of representatives of intercolonial Boards of Health was continued today. Their deliberations were in committee, and were on the question of dealing with ...
Article : 145 wordsIt is reported that the War Office authorities are purchasing 30,000 horses from America. ...
Article : 21 wordsIt is understood that Mr. Chamberlain is willing, if the appeal clause is not restricted. to pass the remainder of the Commonwealth Bill unaltered. ...
Article : 72 wordsIt is announced that Sir William Gatacre is about to return to-England, and it is believed that several other changes in the brigade commands in South Africa are imminent. ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Goschen and Lord George Hamilton, besides dense crowds of spectators, were present at Portsmouth to welcome the blue jackets of Her Majesty's steamer Powerful, the blue ...
Article : 51 wordsAt the farewell demonstration to Mr. W. Beebe, J.P., on Thursday evening at the A.N.A. Hall, Dr. Quick made reference to the passing of the Commonwealth Bill. He said ...
Article : 252 wordsFurther details of the fighting at Wepener betweeh Lieutenant-Colonel Dalgety's men and a large number of Boers on Monday last, state that the British lost 11 killed and 41 wounded. ...
Article : 54 wordsGeneral Pole-Carew now commands the new division known as the 11th. ...
Article : 20 wordsA short time ago the secretary of the Foreign Missions' Committee of the Presbyterian Church wrote to the Government, calling attention to the danger of the bubonic plague ...
Article : 139 wordsHer Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of York have sent messages to the men of Her Majesty's steamer Powerful, congratulating them on the splendid work they ...
Article : 42 wordsGeneral Chernside will succeed General Gatacre, who, according to army orders, is returning to England. ...
Article : 22 wordsColonel Dalgetey's garrison, who are now reported to be isolated, at Wepener, on Tuesday over-turned one of the enemy's big guns. ...
Article : 32 wordsGeneral Hunter, with a large force, including the Dublin Fusileers, the Connaught Rangers and the Somersetshire Rigiment, have embarked for sea from Durban, but their ...
Article : 50 wordsThe leading newspapers sympathise with General Gatacre, styling him as as "a brave and energetic officer" although admitting the painful necessity of recalling him to England, which ...
Article : 39 wordsTwo hundred and sixty New Zealanders are at Aliwal north, from whence reinforcements are being sent to Colonel Palgety at Wepener. A commando of Boers is reported to be just ...
Article : 40 wordsLord Roberts has arrested a number of Influential citizens of Bloemfontein, who are suspected of disaffection, and has despatched them under guard to Capetown. ...
Article : 35 wordsLord Kitchener, who is at Aliwal north, has sent a cheering message to the garrison at Wepener. ...
Article : 22 wordsDr. Gray, of the Central Board of Health, returned to-day from his visit to the South Australian steamer now lying at the quarantino station. The man Brown, who is at the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe British casualties up to the 7th April are given as 17,701, men. This does not include tlie Reddersburg disaster. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe cablegram which was expected from the Secretary of State for the Colonies in reference to the Commonwealth Bill in reply to a cablegram sent by the Premier, has not come ...
Article : 118 wordsColonel Dalgety is confident that he can defend his position, and has securely entrenched himself at Wepener. ...
Article : 22 wordsSir. Abraham Fischer, one of the members of the Free State Executive Council, who is visiting Europe on a peace mission, has arrived at Naples. He is accompanied by Mr. Wessels, ...
Article : 168 wordsReports from Delagoa Bay state that there are 35,000 Boers and 90 guns entrenched in an impregnable position between Kroonstad and Winberg. ...
Article : 66 wordsShould the weather prove propitious, the Easter Carnival in aid of the charities, which will to opened on Monday, uromises to be a big success. Already a large number of ...
Article : 1,075 wordsThe guinea pigs inoculated some days ago have died. ...
Article : 13 wordsNew Zealand has given the Victorian Board of Health notice that Australia has been declared infected with plague. ...
Article : 23 wordsA deputation, waited upon the Minister of Defence to-day in connection with the question of precedence that has arisen in connection with the chaplains at the Bushmen's ...
Article : 74 wordsOn Wednesday evening a show case at Mr. J. Koch's jewellery establishment in the Arcade was broken open, and 13 clocks, valued at £2/17/6, were stolen. The robbery was ...
Article : 380 wordsThe Water Supply department has accepted the tender of the Austral Otis Engineering Works, at £32,606/7/5, for manufacturing and delivery of cast iron pipes for the ...
Article : 933 wordsIn consequence of the great activity shown by the Boers in the southern parts of the Free State Lord Kitchener has taken command of some 15,000 men, who will be engaged in ...
Article : 70 wordsColonel Cairncross, comptroller of stores, was seen to-day in reference to the report of the Parliamentary Board which inquired into the question of the defective saddlery. ...
Article : 176 wordsM. Delcasse, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies with regard to Beira Port in Portuguese East Africa declared that they would remain neutral ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is certain that the Free State Boers have risen in larger numbers than was at first expected, as they now hold the whole of the Free State east of the Bloemfontein railway. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Italian Government has assured the Boer delegates that Italy will not intervene in the present war, unless both sides ask for mediation. ...
Article : 28 wordsBoth the Boer Republics have protested against the action of Portugal in permitting the importation of British troops by way of Beira, the Portuguese East African port. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe naval authorities at Durban have despatched several additional guns to Sir Redvers Buller; who is operating against the enemy at Wessels Nek, to the north of Ladysmith. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Eaglehawk branch A.N.A. was hold at the Masonic Hall on Thursday night. The president, Mr. T. J. Lane, was in the chair. Five new ...
Article : 224 wordsThe explanation given for the seeming inactivity on the part of Lord Roberts to advance northwards is that the heavy rains render marching extremely difficult. ...
Article : 36 wordsLatest despatches to hand from Bloemfontein state that a large quantity of correspondence between President Steyn and Mr. A. Fischer has been discovered in the town which tends to ...
Article : 62 wordsG. V. Aspinall, J. A. Allen, J. D. Boyd, Bendigo Hospital, Bendigo Gas Company, A. Bush, F. W. Bush, G. Boucher, D. J. Blair, H. O. Cowen, B. S. Cowen, J. Carter, A. B. ...
Article : 171 wordsIt is now recognised that Lord Roberts's tentative leniency towards the Boers who surrendered was a prudent policy, pending the arrival of fresh remounts. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is reported that General Botha is trying to isolate General Clery's forces at Sunday's River, to the north of Bloemfontein. The Boer positions are said to cover no less ...
Article : 52 wordsThe entrenching of Bloemfontein is interpreted to mean that a large force will soon be liberated to march northward, in which movement Lord Methuen and Sir Redvers Buller ...
Article : 81 wordsLord Roberts mentioned in his report that the enemy's horses were very heavy in comparison to those of the British. ...
Article : 27 wordsOwing to the numerous attempts to escape, and also to the sympathetic attitude of the Afrikanders towards the prisoners in Cape Colony, it has been decided that all ...
Article : 51 wordsCommandant Olivier's forces are reported to be much exhausted. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe Cape border is now considered to be cure. ...
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