CHRISTMAS passed quietly. The weather was hot and dry, the heat being over a hundred in the shade yesterday. A hush fire did considerable damage to fences and crops just out of town. It ...
Article : 59 wordsTHE holiday season did not pass this year without at least several fatal accidents to those excursionists who determined to take their day's pleasure on the waters of Sydney Harbour. The wind during the ...
Article : 563 wordsGeneral Gourko the well-known Russian commander, has left Russia for Delagoa Bay, accompanied by two Dutch officers. ...
Article : 25 wordsAT S. Saviour's Cathedral the Christmas services commenced on Sunday evening. The carol, "When Christ was Born," was sung by the choir from the organ loft before the service began, and it was ...
Article : 1,348 wordsFURTHER details of the battle of Tugela, fought on Friday, December 15, show that the use of smokeless powder by the Boers largely contributed to General Sir Redvers Buller's reverse, as it rendered ...
Article : 316 wordsColonel Long, who commanded the artillery at the battle of Tugela, has furnished an explanation of the abandoning of the guns which were subsequently captured by the Boers. ...
Article : 55 wordsTHE ladies [?] undertook the work of making the street collections on Saturday last continued their operations till late in the evening A special feature was the holding of a grand military parade. ...
Article : 279 wordsA resident of Capetown warned the Government of Cape Colony in 1894 that he had seen at Pretoria written plans of an anti-British campaign. He also states that he remembers the adoption by the ...
Article : 50 wordsBloemfontein is said to be indefensible, and the Orange Free State capital is likely to be transferred to Winburg, about 65 miles to the north-east. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe hospital ship Maine, fitted out by American ladies, has sailed for Capetown. ...
Article : 19 wordsDr. Leyds, the Transvaal Plenipotentiary in Europe, stated in the course of an interview that the Boers would not accept mediation unless it were on the basis of a better status than formerly. They ...
Article : 48 wordsNo names have transpired of the donors of the thousands of pounds to the movement started here to form a bushmen's contingent, but strong suspicions are entertained. ...
Article : 188 wordsThe first battalion of the South Lancashire Regiment (infantry) has been ordered to Durban. ...
Article : 17 wordsOne hundred railway reservists and skilled line repairers at Crewe, in Cheshire, have been ordered to join 130 others now at the front in South Africa. ...
Article : 30 wordsApparently the Government has been influenced by the fact that recent cables emphasise the necessity of cavalry, because at the Cabinet meeting on Saturday it was decided to accept the offer of Colonel ...
Article : 1,061 wordsA railway pioneer corps of 1000 Uitlanders and others is being organised at Capetown. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe "Speclator" advocates the mobilising of the navy, the formation of a territorial army of 100,000 men who have seen service, and the making of large purchases of artillery with the object of deterring ...
Article : 45 wordsLord Chesham, who in 1879 retired with the rank of captain in the 16th Lancers, has enrolled a yeomanry force of 8000 for service in South Africa. Several peers are joining the brigade as privates. ...
Article : 38 wordsTHE fire brigade demonstration, in which upwards of 50 brigades and 500 firemen took part, was held on the show-ground, Bathurst, on Tuesday. There was a good attendance of the public. The weather ...
Article : 275 wordsA sum of £70,000 has been subscribed for the equipment of the corps of London volunteers promoted by the Lord Mayor (Alderman A. J. Newton) for service in South Africa. ...
Article : 50 wordsNews has been received that the men of the Few Zealand contingent, commanded by Major A. W. Robin, who are attached to Major-General J. D. P. French's column, now operating in North Cape ...
Article : 371 wordsHalf of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Warren's division will be despatched from Capetown to reinforce the troops under General Sir Redvers Buller. ...
Article : 26 wordsIt has transpired that General Joubert issued an order for the release of Mr. Winston Churchill, the correspondent for the Morning Post, but it was not received at Pretoria until the morning after his ...
Article : 43 wordsA sortie from Ladysmith against the enemy was made last Monday. Six British were killed and 15 wounded. ...
Article : 21 wordsColonel John Hay, the American Secretary of State, is making inquiries as to the seizure by the British authorities of vessels in Delagoa Bay, laden with American flour, on the plea that they ...
Article : 57 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts took his departure from London on Saturday for Southampton, on route for Capetown. He was accorded a splendid ovation by the public at the Waterloo Station, the ...
Article : 109 wordsCanada proposes to mobilise 5000 men in readiness for emergencies in South Africa. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 108 wordsThe report of General Schalk Burger, the Boer commander in Natal, of the battle of Tugela has been published in Pretoria. It states that the Boer casualties were only 30. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Foreign Office has warned British subjects and foreigners resident in South Africa that trading with the Boer Republics will be liable to heavy punishment. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 363 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, the war correspondent for the Morning Post, who was re-captured by the Boers at Waterfalhausen, has again escaped and has arrived safe at Delagoa Bay. ...
Article : 31 wordsAn average-of 60 empty cartridges was found beside each British soldier killed at Tugela. Their comrades wept with rage to see the abandoned guns surrounded by heaps of wounded ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Times, in referring to the despatch of additional colonial troops to South Africa, says that the prompt, genuine, and substantial sympathy proffered by Canada and Australia to Great Britain is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 54 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller has destroyed the Tugela-road bridge so as to prevent the Boers to the south retreating. He has withdrawn the British camp a mile nearer Chieveley, with the view ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. R. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, has accepted the offer of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Limited, Elswick, to equip the New Zealand contingent with four Hotchkiss guns. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe "Times" says that no important movement of the British forces will take place until transports and reinforcements enable the commanders to move freely from the railways to other lines of ...
Article : 66 wordsThe corps of 1000 London volunteers promoted by the Lord Mayer of London (Alderman Alfred James Newton) has been increased to 1400 men, 600 of this number being mounted. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 wordsWHITE CLIFFS, Sunday.—On Thursday, is response to a request, Dr. Gaze, accompanied by sergeant Nolan, proceeded to Purnanga station, no out station of the Momba Pastoral Company, and ...
Article : 540 wordsThe county of Lancashire has decided to equip a Volunteer battalion of 1000 men similar to that being raised in London at the instance of the Lord Mayor. ...
Article : 34 wordsGeneral Schalk Barger, in command of the Boers at the Tugela River, told a British military officer that the Boers would fight to the lost, though he knew Great Britain must win in the end. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Earl of Lonsdale, Lord Harris, the Earl of Dudley, the Earl of Warwick, the Earl of Harrington, and Mr. Victor Cavendish, M.P., have all volunteered for service in South Africa with the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 379 wordsProminent residents of Capetown estimate that the Boers now in the field number 65,000 men. ...
Article : 21 wordsIt is reported that horse sickness has appeared in Natal. ...
Article : 12 wordsA proposal has been made to recruit a force of 1500 horsemen from amongst British farmers in Cape Colony to invade and harass the Orange Free State. ...
Article : 33 wordsH.R H. the Duke of Connaught asked to be attached to the staff of Field-Marshal Lord Roberts in any capacity. Lord Roberts was agreeable to this course, but ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 162 wordsLieutenant Colquhoun, of the Victorian defence force, has landed at Capetown. ...
Article : 16 wordsThere is great enthusiasm amongst Canadians with regard to the despatch of another contingent to South Africa, and the number volunteering is tenfold in excess of those required. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Hon. Lionel Walter Rothschild has volunteered for the front. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 137 wordsThe War Office has completed preparations for the mobilising of an Eighth Division of the Army Corps. The despatch of the Seventh Division, which is to ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Indian Government has decided to despatch to South Africa a British cavalry regiment, and also 2000 native troops and cavalry horses. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Boers are short of ammunition for their Creusot guns. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe Imperial Government has decided that it is undesirable to draw further reinforcements from India except in the case of unforeseen emergencies. ...
Article : 27 wordsIT has been decided to hold an inquest on the fire which occurred at Constable Wren's cottage, Ways-street, North Goulburn, in October last. It was fixed for yesterday morning, but Mr. O'Brien, ...
Article : 47 wordsThe second battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment has arrived at Durban. ...
Article : 18 wordsWomen and boys are assisting Colonel Baden-Powell's garrison in the defence of Mafeking, and are working in a spirited manner. The siege by the Boers shows signs of weakening. ...
Article : 34 wordsON Monday [?] before Mr. H. O'Brien, two defendants, f[?] drunkenness, were discharged with a caution. On Tuesday, before Messrs. Ellis and Fitzgerald. Js.P., Anthony Karkee was charged ...
Article : 63 wordsCardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, has directed that a public united supplication be offered amongst the members of the Roman Catholic Church for the speedy success of the British arms in ...
Article : 36 wordsTHE Christmas holidays in Goulburn passed off quietly. There was a cricket match on Boxing Day, a couple of picnic race meeting held near the town provided amusement for a good number, and ...
Article : 70 wordsThe extensive entrenchments thrown up by the Boers at Magersfontein—said to be 20 miles in length—are probably intended to monopolise the water springs. ...
Article : 29 wordsThere are 20,000 Boers at Magersfontein, and the trenches have been doubled. The enemy's front now covers a distance of 20 miles. Lord Methuen's position is impregnable. ...
Article : 46 wordsNOUMEA, Saturday—Since Sunday last seven Kanakas have died suddenly. The doctors declare that the cause of death was bubonic plague. The plague is supposed to have been introduced with ...
Article : 172 wordsTHE death of a child of Mr. D. Brown, of Yarra, was reported to the coroner on Christmas morning. The child was five mouths and five days old, and death occurred suddenly from convulsions, Mr. ...
Article : 73 wordsA third of the British soldiers who were wounded at Magersfontein have recovered and rejoined the forces at the front. ...
Article : 25 wordsVery hot weather has prevailed in Goulburn for the last few days, the registers being as follows:—Saturday, 100 degrees; Sunday, 76.5; Monday, 96.1; Tuesday, 100 2 Monday and Tuesday nights ...
Article : 46 wordsThe services of the squadron of Canadian rough riders have been accepted by the British Government. Another similar squadron has been asked for instead of the battery of artillery which was offered ...
Article : 40 wordsTHE last batch of Goulburn volunteers for the Transvaal left by the mail train yesterday morning, consisting of members of the Australian Horse and civilians. The following are the names:—Lieutenant ...
Article : 180 wordsA YOUNG man named William Stewart, a dairyman, whose parents resides in Victoria-street, while standing near a shooting gallery in Auburn-street on Saturday night, was shot in the thigh through ...
Article : 63 wordsMajor-General J. D. P. French's force shelled the enemy near Naauwport on the 19th inst. The Major-General after the action complimented the New Zealand troops, under Major Robin, and ...
Article : 82 wordsLieutenant-General Sir W. F. Gatacre, whose headquarters are now at Sterksroom, in northern Cape Colony, has taken stringent steps to prevent disloyalty and to minimise spying. He has excluded ...
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Advertising : 120 wordsTHERE was a good attendance at the sales yesterday, but only small yardings. About 500 cattle were forward, very few being fate, which sold at about equal to last sales. For store cattle there was ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Dutch rebellion in the northern portion of Cape Colony is assuming alarming dimensions. The whole of the country northwards from Stormberg has risen and gone over to the Boer ...
Article : 60 wordsThe sum of £20,000 has been subscribed in Northumberland to assist the Yeomanry volunteering for South Africa. Yorkshire is raising £50,000 for the same purpose. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. T. Brassey, eldest son of Lord Brassey, has volunteered for service in South Africa. ...
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), Thu 28 Dec 1899, Page 4
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