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Major-General.Douglas and Colonel Benson, after hard fighting eastwards of [?] dispered the Boers and captured their [?] and several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Commandant Kruitzinger burned a supply train near Stormberg, but later on was attacked and sustained losses at Driefontein…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →St James's Gazette, re-echoing the remarks of The Tunes, says that England is putting forth [?]qnate efforts to end the war. The Fait Mall Gasttle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Daring the month of April 86 British were killed in action in South Africa, 44 died of wounds, 388 of disease, 36 from accident, 270 were wounded, and 2313…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Duke of York to-day, at Government House, p[?]ted medals to the Victorian soldiers retained from South Africa. Four hundered and seventy men were drawn up in front of Government House to receive the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lord Kitchener reports to the War Office that 11 more Boers have been killed, 78 prisoners taken, 31 have surrendered, while a 12-pounder, 9-pounder,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nicholas Jaspiizza, owner of a vineyard near Young, was morder d to-day. Only meagre particulars are to band, but it seems that the dececsed and his wife were in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →William Thomas stabbed William Broughton and William Bond, two half-castes, out, side the Boyal Hotel, Hhellharbor, last night, wounding the men severels between the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The following appeared in yesterday's Second Edition:- Mrs. Boths, it is announced, is abont to visit Europe, to inform Mr. Kroger…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A British colaran at Commissie Drift captured eight Boers and some cattle and waggons. Afterwards four others were captured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hartebeeste [?] in the Transvaal, has been destroyed by the British, and the families of the Boers forming Liebenberg's commands have been taken into Klerksdorp…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lord Methuen, fighting at Buisfontein, recaptured a gun taken by the Boers at Uitvals Nek. Four Boers were killed and several captured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The destruction of Hartebeeste Fontein by the British has, it is announced, greatly hampered General Do la Rey, who has retreated on Wolmaranstad…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General De la Rey, with 1000 men, many of them without hordes, is reported to be moving westwards in the Transvaal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When questioned concerning the probable length of the war Major Reade, O.B., who has just returned from South Africa, said:" Almost at the last minute Lord Kitchener…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Kitchener reports to the War Office that Major-General Grenfell has occupied Lonistrichardt, which six British soldiers and 40 Boer surrenderors…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Parlismentary Blue Book just issued shows that 634 farms, mills, and cottages have been barned in the Orange River and Transvaal colonies for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Parliamentary Blue Book issued regarding the farm-burning by the British in South Africa shows that in 147 instances it was the penalty for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM an intensely interesting arricle, entitled "Dies Irae," in the April " Blackwood," by "Linesman," dalling with the Spion Kop week, we take thc fol'owmg psssago describ…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Langau, Colesberg rebel, with 100 men, has re-entered Cape Colony. It ia unofficially reported at Resmead that General De Wet and Commandant…
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