FIFTY-FIVE years' residence in Australia is the record of Mr. Donald C. Cameron, the ever[?]ourteous clerk of the Purga Divisional Board, who arrived in Sydney in January, 1845, and ...
Article : 1,150 wordsNEWS is just to had form Natal that a further heliograph message has been received from General Sir George White regarding the desperate attack made by ...
Article : 271 wordsAn incident in connection with the death of Major-General A. G. Wauchope, who commanded the Highland Brigade at the battle of Magersfontein, where General ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Chief Secretary (Hon. J. R. Dickson received a letter yesterday from the Bundaberg Distillery Company, Limited, offering five hogsheads of rum for the use of the contingent ...
Article : 52 wordsA representative meeting of citizens was held to-night to form a Patriotic Fund, the Mayor occupying the chair. A sum of £147 was promised in the room, and a large ...
Article : 528 wordsSome remarks have been passed about what is referred to as the youthtuiness of the officers appointed in connection with the second Queensland contingent for South Africa. A glance at ...
Article : 404 wordsThe following incident in connection with the war in South Africa be related by the "Pall Mail G[?]sffe" :—"The thunder of the big guns round Ladysmith was fitful. Most of the Boers ...
Article : 180 wordsWhen the British Cabinet met after the reverses sustained by Generals Buller, Metheun, and Geiacre (says the Sydney "Daily Telegraph"), arrangements were completed for the ...
Article : 208 wordsColonel Filcher, who commanded the Queensland and Canadian troops in their recent successful engagement at Sunnyside, is a comparatively young man. He is only ...
Article : 67 wordsApropos the war question, it is said that last week in Ballina, when the news of Buller's defeat reached them, a number of Government employees cheered wildly and ...
Article : 159 wordsWith reference to the some what mean trick resorted to by the Boers of imitating the British bugle calls during an engagement, which resulted in the isolation and ...
Article : 165 wordsGeneral Buller'e scouts have ascertained that the Boers have fortified every hill around Ladysmith, and between that place and Colenso—a distance of 16 miles—and ...
Article : 276 wordsThe Government have decided, after the departure of the second. Queensland contingent, to keep camp at the Exhibition going, in view of the possibility of another draft of Australian ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Premier of New South Wales has notified the Chief Secretary of the receipt of a wire from Colonel Hoad, who is in charge of the Australian Regiment at Enslin, in which that ...
Article : 71 wordsThe following account of the Battle of Tugela, as published in the "Eastern Province Herald," December 19, has come to hand per the steamer Stassfurt, leaving for ...
Article : 922 wordsThe Berlin "Kreuz Zeitung" says that in the spring of 1899 two German sailing vessels from Elsfieth, Oldenburg, of about 1800 tons register, landed, one st East London ...
Article : 133 wordsIncluded in the contingent which is leaving Brisbane in a few days' time for South Africa are quite a number of well-known Bugbyites, and arrangements san being made by Brisbane ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is understood that an application has been made by the Mayor to be allowed to deposit the proceeds of his Patriotic Fund with the Government Savings Bank at interest. Of course, ...
Article : 100 wordsOne thousand men are still drawing rations at the camp at Randwick in the following sections :—A Company, second contingent, 129 men; B Company, second ...
Article : 876 wordsThe War Office authorities have decided to further strengthen the artillery forces in South Africa, and a dozen additional batteries of field artillery have been warned to ...
Article : 125 wordsMonday (says the 'Courier"), for some reason or other, was an exceptionally quiet day in the camp at the Exhibition Building. A number of fine young fellows from Toowoomba ...
Article : 551 wordsThe army men employed to watch the line from Capetown to Port Elizabeth, via De Aar and Naauwpoort, is a striking indication of the care that has to be taken to ...
Article : 514 wordsA FRIEND of mine (on the staff of a local paper) on being requested to reply to the toast of "The Press," delivered himself as follows, amid much laughter and applause :—" Mr. ...
Article : 183 wordsDURING the week ended on the 6th instant three females were admitted into the above institution and one female was discharged. Ten males have been transferred from Goodna ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, delivered an important speech at Manchester last night with regard to the war in South Africa. He ...
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