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THE Manila Times says:—"A recapitulation of the casualties in actions and deaths in the regular and volunteer armies between May 1, 1898, and June 30, 1899, contained in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Imperial Parliament was opened yesterday. In the Speech from the Throne, the Queen said she had witnessed with pride and with the heartiest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About 40,000 additions British troops are now afloat or under orders for South Africa. Colonel Byron, an Australian "special…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further details of the battle at Spion Kop show that when aware that the British troops held the highest part of the mountain, the Boers, from an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Patriotic Fund now totals £16,284, and the Bushmen's Contingent Fund, £25,672. MELBOURNE, Friday. The Mayor (Sir Malcolm M'Eacharn) will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brigadier-General Ralph Clement's orderly was killed by a Boer shell while holding the general's horse during an engagement northwards of Rendsburg…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →With reference to the abandoning of Spion Kop on Wednesday night last, it has been ascertained that Colonel Thorneycroft, who succeeded Colonel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Forty thousand additional troops are afloat or under orders for South Africa. The Boer ambulance [?]a which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The officers of British volunteer regiments are profoundly disgusted at the obstacles thrown by the War Office in the way of the employment of volunteers at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Patriotic Fund has now reached £16,629 and the Bushmen's Contingent Fund £25,767. Over £133 was taken at the cricket match yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The [?]stious of Europe have long been searching for an explosive more deadly than dynamite. Science has been carefully appealed to, and the communication…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The published list of the British casualties at Spionkop give 56 killed, 141 wounded, and eight missing. The list is incomplete…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is estimated that the Boers besieging Kimberley fired no less than 1000 shells into the town in three days. Lieutenant-Colonel Baden-Powell, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War Office has notified that 215 British are missing as the result of the fight at Spion Kop. The missing an mostly the men of the 2nd battalion of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Times announces that the supplementary Army Estimates will include an item of £20,000,000 to cover the operations in South Africa until April…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Patriotic Fund is now £16,705 and the Bushmen's Contingent Fund £25,796. MELBOURNE, Monday. The Rev. Charles Clark preached a special…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE war news published to-day is of a reassuring character. That is, the little there is of it, and if it can be accepted as fact. General Buller hts started his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking during the debate on the Address-in-Reply in the House of Commons, said that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a meeting of the Cape Town branch of the Afrikander Band, held under the presidency of Mr. Hoffmeyr, resolutions were carried condemning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Daily Telegraph was relief fund now amounts to £115,000. Sir Edward G. Clarke, Q.C., M.P., for Plymouth, recommends that Mr…
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