The London newspapers generally discredit the Boer assertion that at Koorn Spruit they captured detailed British plans for the invasion of the ...
Article : 110 wordsThe British casualties over the ambush and subsequent action at Koorn Spruit are stated to have been 450 in all. ...
Article : 191 wordsAn official despatch from Lord Roberts states that Lord Methuen has just fought a small but successful action at Boshof, an important town lying ...
Article : 177 wordsThe American Naval Estimates provide for an expenditure of 61,000,000 dollars, or about £12,200,000. Provision is made in them for the ...
Article : 62 wordsAs a result, it is alleged, of the examination of the would-be assassin of the Prince of Wales a man named Meert has been arrested by the ...
Article : 121 wordsIn an article on the Commonwealth Bill, evidently inspired by the Colonial Office or the Crown, Law officers, the "Times" this morning says that under ...
Article : 423 wordsThe Premier (Mr Holder) is in receipt of intelligence from London with regard to the attitude of the Colonial Office towards the Commonwealth Bill. ...
Article : 749 wordsGrave disturbances have lately taken place in Ashanti, and a good deal of inter-tribal fighting has been going on. The natives are taking advantage of ...
Article : 310 wordsAn examination of the railway carriage shows that the Prince of Wales had a very narrow escape. The first bullet fired by Sipido struck the ...
Article : 120 wordsThe new regiment of Irish Guards, for the embodiment of which orders have just been issued, will be for the most part stationed in Ireland. ...
Article : 39 wordsOfficial despatches from Lord Roberts contain the unwelcome news of another British reverse, which occurred on Wednesday last, the 4th inst., and ...
Article : 242 wordsLord Strathcona and Mount Royal, the Canadian High Commissioner in London, and the Australian Agents-General, have, both, personally and on ...
Article : 198 wordsMr. Cecil Rhodes, who left South Africa soon after the relief of Kimberley, has arrived in London. He will make only a few weeks' stay, and will ...
Article : 44 wordsMajor-General Clements spent fifteen days of continuous marching on his road from Norval's Pont to his present post five miles north of Bloemfontein. ...
Article : 66 wordsPresident Kruger is having coins minted at the Pretoria Mint in exact imitation of British sovereigns and halfsovereigns and bearing the date 1892. ...
Article : 74 wordsThere has been great excitement in New York lately over a theatrical prosecution. Miss Olga Nethersole, an actress well-known in Australia, staged ...
Article : 82 wordsA fatal accident occurred at the Stratford lease yesterday. A miner named James Pearson when working in the 7ft deep open cut was crushed to ...
Article : 525 wordsIt was announced in the papers this morning that the commandant of a Boer force had summoned Brigadier-General Brabant to surrender at Weppener, a ...
Article : 86 wordsIn consequence of the Papal edict inhibiting the late Professor St. George Mivart from the Sacraments of the Church, Cardinal Vaughan, the Roman ...
Article : 95 wordsIn answer to a question in the House of Commons last night Mr George Wyndham, Parliamentary Secretary for War, said that up to March 31 the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 188 wordsNews was received this morning of a British reverse, fortunately not of a serious character. It occurred as long ago as February 15, the day of the ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Boer force that attacked Reddersburg numbered 3200, while the garrison was under 600 strong. The British casualties were 10 killed ...
Article : 39 wordsLeave was yesterday granted to the Melbourne Tramways Company, represented to Mr Isaac Isaacs, late Attorney-General in the Turner Cabinet ...
Article : 216 wordsThe "Daily Mail" this morning contains some very complimentary references to the liberality with which Australia has contributed to the various ...
Article : 48 wordsInformation has been given to the Commissioner of Police by Hill, the leader of the border exploration party, relative to the death of Charles Norton. ...
Article : 164 wordsCommenting on the capture of the Reddersburg garrison the "Times" this morning says that it shows the urgent necessity for entrenching isolated ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 wordsYesterday near Cape Town, in a heavy fog, the transport steamer Wingfield collided with the Union liner Mexican, 4661 tons, ramming her so badly ...
Article : 72 wordsArrivals.—Zulu, Lindisfarne, Earlscourt, Siam, Samuel Plimsoll, St. Mark's Bay, Loch Lomond, Ville de Rouen, Othello, Silver Crag, Loch ...
Article : 66 wordsThe "New York Herald" of this morning declares it is authorised by the Transvaal Government to state positively that the Boers do not intend to ...
Article : 160 wordsThe town of Upington, on the north bank of the Orange, in the south-west of British Bechuanaland, where a force of 800 Boers and rebels had recently ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Governor of Harrar, a town in the south-east of Abyssinia, has just successfully repelled an attack made by a Moslem army. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe body of a swagman was found hanging ito a tree in Victoria Park this morning. The man had apparently been dead for about a week. In his ...
Article : 95 wordsAfter the action at Boshof was ended by the Boers hoisting a white flag in token of surrender, and the British fire had ceased, of the enemy deliberately ...
Article : 69 wordsW. J. Lovell, of Baddaginnie, whilst taking milk to the local butter factory, was thrown from a conveyance and fractured his skull. Death must have been ...
Article : 40 wordsThe new art gallery, which cost the Government £22,000, the construction of which arose out of a donation of £25,000 from the late Sir Thos. Elder ...
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