Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen on September 19 routed the Boers to the north-east of Hart's River. He recaptured from the enemy one of the 15-pounder field gone lost by the British at Colenso. ...
Article : 62 wordsMR. A. CHAPMAN. M.P., is in receipt of the following:— "Office the Railway Commissioners of Now South Wales, Sydney, 27th August, 1900. Proposed line of railway from Tarago to Braidwood ...
Article : 543 wordsMr. J. J. McJannett has received letters from S. Africa from his sons Vincent and Robert. The former had been laid up in the hospital at Johannesburg for three weeks suffering ...
Article : 1,971 wordsCRICKET.—The first match of the reason was played to-day in the park between the married and single men. There was a large attendance, including a number of the fair sex. The day was all that could ...
Article : 445 wordsBEFORE the Police-Magistrate. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY AND ASSAULT. Michael Byrnes, charged with being drunk and disorderly and assaulting Constable Ball in the ...
Article : 477 wordsThere are at least 12,000 men in the marauding bands of Boers in the Orange River Colony, They have an enormous number of spare horses in splendid condition. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Boers at Heckpoort captured three ambulance under Captain A. E. Perkins, Lance-corporal Maund, and Privates Donnelian, Harkness, Henry, Hartnett, and Harrison, of the New South Wales ...
Article : 146 wordsWelcome Home to Mr. J. E. Maher: Mr. J. E. Maher, who wont to South Africa with the Mounted Rifles in the beginning of the trouble, and who later on was invalided ...
Article : 1,016 wordsThe name of the following Australian appears in the casualty list:—New South Wales: Severely wounded at Sherpoort, Corporal J. P. Gilshennan, of the Mounted Infantry. ...
Article : 27 wordsPrivate W. J. Webber, of E Company New South Wales Regiment Imperial Bushmen, who was reported missing some months ago, was taken prisoner by the Boers. He has escaped from Rustenburg ...
Article : 117 wordsTHE proceedings in connection with the Barber's Creek Arbor Day were brought to a close on Thursday at the Public school after the close of the day's work. Mr. Thos. Ferguson, J.P., presented the ...
Article : 262 wordsA SMART shock of earthquake was felt hero yesterday morning at about four o'clock. It lasted some seconds. ...
Article : 28 wordsTrooper S. Parry, one of our invalided Australian Horse, has returned to Goulburn after spending sometime in the hospital in Sydney. His log still troubles him a good deal, but it has improved and ...
Article : 50 wordsLast evening as a strong body of police under Inspector Sykes were proceeding in the dark to an abandoned house on the Bowman River a rifle shot was heard and ...
Article : 108 wordsThe House of Assembly of Cape Colony has agreed to the third reading of the High Treason Bill by 46 votes to 37. Later. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 wordsThere was a good attendance at the Deanery on Saturday to witness the football matches in connection with the benefit to the Australian Rifles Band. All through the season the band has been ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Legislative Council of Cape Colony has by 12 votes to 9 endorsed the annexation of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State by Great Britain. ...
Article : 31 wordsThere are 1800 Boers south of the Komati Bridge, and they are threatening to trek to Swaziland. The Boers at Delagoa Bay are vainly demanding of the late Boer officials to give them cash for ...
Article : 77 wordsSir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, leader of the Liberal party in the recently dissolved House of Commons, and Sir William Harcourt who is an ex-leader of the party, have ...
Article : 198 wordsBUGGY ACCIDENT.—Last Monday week as Mr. S. South well was on his way to Gunning to attend the picnic he was unfortunate enough to meet with no less than two accidents before reaching Dalton, ...
Article : 375 wordsThe allied forces which participated in the attack on Pei Tang comprised 4000 each of Russians and Germans, 1000 French, and a detachment of Austrian ...
Article : 103 wordsMr. Wright, of Oberlin College, Ohio, in a letter dated from Stretensk, of the Trans-Baikal province, adjoining Manchuria, explains that the news of the outrages on Europeans ...
Article : 152 wordsThe weekly meeting was held in the Protestant Hall on Saturday evening, Mr. W. Carey Taylor (vice-president) in the chair. The subject, a debate on the proposed extension of the franchise to women, ...
Article : 88 wordsMr. Chapman is advised that a special grant of £40 has been given for the road from the Braidwood Queanbeyan Road and Bombay Bridge to Gifford's; that £20 has been granted for the improvement of ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. Robert W. Hanbury. Conservative, in addressing the electors of Preston, which he represented in the last Parliament, stated that the War Office required sifting from top ...
Article : 53 wordsLieutenant-General Hildyard has occupied Vryheid after Colonels Gough and Bethune had turned a strong position held by Commandant Christian Botha. ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. J. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, addressed the electors of West Birmingham last night, and received a tremendous ovation. ...
Article : 144 wordsLi Hung Chang has arrived at Tientsin. Sheng the Director of Telegraphs, has been added to the number of Chinese plenipotentiaries to treat with the Powers. ...
Article : 32 wordsArmidale, Saturday.—Superintendent Garvan received a telegram this evening from Sub-inspector Sykes, at Copeland, stating that another crime had been committed by ...
Article : 341 wordsAdvices from Berlin state that the demand of Germany that the Chinese Government should deliver up the instigators of the outrages before entering upon negotiations is ...
Article : 73 wordsAbout 8 o'clock on Sunday morning the dead body of a man was found lying on the Milson's Point railway line, close to the new platform at Warrawee, between Turramurra and Wahroonga. The ...
Article : 171 wordsSir William Lyne, the Premier, accompanied by Messrs. Watson, Hawthorne, Ferris, Cohen, and Dr. Graham, Ms.L.A., returned to Sydney on Sunday morning by the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Allies at Peitang included 4000 Germans and 4000 troops of other nations. Brigadier-General Wilson, with 800 Americans, 600 British, and six guns, has left ...
Article : 130 wordsAt Balmoral yesterday her Majesty the Queen invented the Earl of Hopetoun with the insignia of the Knighthood of the Order of the Thistle. The Earl of Hopetoun then delivered to her ...
Article : 93 wordsThe crops along the river look beautiful. Grass is in abundance, and stock are fast recovering from the effects of the winter. Everything points to a flourishing season. ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Premier says that he considers it unnecessary to pass a law at the present time to prevent members of the Federal Parliament sitting in the State Parliament of New South Wales He points out that ...
Article : 420 wordsField-Marshal Count von Waldersee has arrived at Shanghai. ...
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Advertising : 920 wordsThe refusal of the Allies to withdraw from Peking was based upon information that the Boxers were prepared to return to the capital in strength. ...
Article : 33 wordsLiu Kun Yi, Viceroy of Liang Kiang, whose headquarters are at Nanking, fearing that a German fleet will ascend the Yangtsze-Kiang, is blocking the channel at ...
Article : 41 wordsThe withdrawal of Sir Claude Macdonald from Peking is on account of his health, and had been arranged for last April. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Empress Dowager has ordered the Governor of Shansi to raise money for the erection of an Imperial Palace at Sing-an-fu, which will be the future capital. ...
Article : 31 wordsH.M. gunboat Protector, with the South Australian naval contingent, has boon ordered to Shanghai. ...
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), Tue 25 Sep 1900, Page 4
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