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Lieutenant-General White reports that on Friday, the day before the Boer attack on Ladysmith, General Joubert sent to him a messenger, carrying a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some despatches from Mr. Rhodes intercepted near Kimberley state that the De Beers' mines are filling with water, and according to the Standard and Diggers' News…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bushmen a Contingent Fund has now reached £20,857. The New South Wales Patriotic Fund has reached £11,014…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is satisfactory to find that the war relief funds are at last being organised and consolidated. Hitherto the efforts have been disjointed, and it was likely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—While the war is regan in either nation by the majority of the Government, of the commercial men, of the soldiers, of the pressmen, of the novelists, of the clergy,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Indian Government is dispatching 800 horeos beyond the number previously announced to South Africa. The Imperial Government proposes to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General Buller wires to the War Office from Chieveley, in Natal, that the Boers claim their losses in the attack on Ladysmith on Saturday to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Chief Secretary of Queensland received a cablegram from Lieutenant- Colonel Bicardo, commanding the Queensland contingent in South Africa, intimating that 40…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Twelve batteries of Field Artillery have been ordered to held themselves in readiness for active service. Wernber, Belt and Company, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Bushmen's Contingent Fund now amounts to £21,113. The Patriotic Fund amounts to £11,223…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Minister for Lands, Mr. Hassall, has decided that where the occupiers of Crown Lands have volunteered far active service in Africa he will suspend the residential clauses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A widespread suspense in England was relieved by General White's message announcing that the Boers were defeated in their attack on Ladysmith…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The position of Great Britain with regard to the foreign ships and cargoes seized in and near Delagoa Bay and on the African coast is exciting much…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farther particulars reaching London about the betrayal of Major-General Gatacre's British forces at Stormberg, Cape Colony, last month state that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More detailed news with regard to the Boer attack on Ladysmith last Saturday is now being received. The Standard correspondent at Frere…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The recent disaster sustained by the Suffolk Regiment in the Golesberg district has, it is said, convinced the military officers at the front that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Considerable satisfaction has been expressed at the publication of an announcement that the German Government has requested the management of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Buller has seized, as already cabled, the "bridge" over the Tugela River at Potgieters, north of Zwarte Kop. The bridge, it is now explained,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further particulars reaching London about the betrayal of Major-General Gatacro's British forces at Stormberg, Cape Colony, last month state that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lord Roberts has telegraphed to the War Office that Major-General French on Sunday attempted to outflank the Boers east of Colesberg. The attempt,…
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