The Transvaal War. Overtures for Peace. Audacious Proposals of the Boers. Great Britain Will Formulate Her Own Terms. the Osfontein Rout. Presidents Under Fire. Kruger Weeping. Endeavours to Rally the Boers. Reported Resignation of Joubert. London, March 10
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 4
The Daily Mail stated that President Kruger and President Steyn have made audacious overtures to the Marquis of Salisbury, the premier, for peace…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Battle of Driefontein. Another British Victory. Complete Rout of the Boers. Positions Carried at the Bayonet's Point. N.S.W. Cavalry Engaged. Advancing Under Heavy Fire. Pursuing the Vleeing Boers. Mobility of the Enemy. Remarkable Shifting of Guns. 6000 Boers Engaged. London, March 12
The Burrowa News · Friday 16 March 1900 · page 2
The 6th army division, commanded by Lieutenant-General Kelly-Kenny and obvalry troops under Lieutenant-Colonial R. G. Broadwood, fought a severe and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. Advance on Pretoria. Enemy Slackening Fire at Mafeking. General Buller's Army. Forward Movement Imminent. London, March 20
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 March 1900 · page 4
THE movement of Lieutenant-General Lord Methoen, who lately occupied Boshof, and who was last reported at Warrenton, is interpreted by military critics as being an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War. Welcoming Sir A. Milner. Destroying the Railway. the Natives at Mafeking. Fire at Capetown. London, Monday Afternoon. Destroying a Railway
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 March 1900 · page 2
When Lieutenant-General Gatacre was advancing on Bethulie from Burghersdorp the Boers destroyed the railway bridge across the river. The railway is now diverted and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire
The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 28 March 1900 · page 2
ON Saturday Afternoon a fire occurred at Grenfell Road destroying nearly the whole of the premises of Mr. Thomas Quinn, hotelkeeper. The fire-was discovered in the…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 March 1900 · page 1
Young, Monday.—On Saturday afternoon last Quinn's Hotel, on the Grenfell Road, about five miles from Young, was totally destroyed by fire, together with outbuildings,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Fire [?] Qulnn’s
The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 31 March 1900 · page 4
[?] Mr. Quinn’s residence [?] Mr. Robertson, P.M., Coroner for the district, and a jury of five, into the origin of the fire which occurred at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boers Fire From Prepared Cover. How a Gun Was Saved
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 April 1900 · page 4
Rimington's Sconts, the artillery, and the wag. gone entered Doorn Spruit without having the slightest suspicion that the enemy was near. The Boers fired on the British from stone…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War. Bombardment of General Cronje. a Terrible Artillery Fire
The Burrowa News · Friday 6 April 1900 · page 1
The London Daily Telegraph of February 23 has the following:— "Throughout yesterday there was the keenest anxiety to ascertain the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Federal Capital Site.—mr. Oliver at Corowa and Albury.—neither He Nor the N.s.w. Government But Only the Federal Goverment Can Decide.—fortifying the Capital.—preservation From Fire of the Public Archives
Goulburn Herald · Friday 6 April 1900 · page 2
ACCORDING to a recent Corowa telegram in a metropolitan paper Mr. Oliver, the federal capital commissioner, the other day expressed a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire-brigade Demonstration
Goulburn Herald · Monday 9 April 1900 · page 2
MR. LAWS, superintendent of Goulburn Fire Brigade, has received a letter from the Metropolitan Firemen's Association; Sydney, to which Goulburn brigade is attached, stating…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Destructive Fire at Yeumhurra
Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 9 April 1900 · page 2
MRS. JAS. DUFF sustained a very severe loss on Wednesday night, when the dining-room and a bedroom, at her residence, Yeumburra, with all their contents,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Proposed Fire Brigade Demonstration
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 April 1900 · page 4
THE Metropolitan Fire Brigade Association, to which the Goulburn Fire Brigade is attached, has sanctioned the holding of a demonstration in Goulburn, and they suggest that it should be held on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local & General News. Destructive Fire at Yeumburra
The Yass Courier · Tuesday 10 April 1900 · page 2
ON Wednesday night last a very destructive fire took place at Yeumburra, the residence of Mrs. James Duff, whereby the whole of one portion of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire in Sydney. Falling Walls and Injured Firemen
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 April 1900 · page 2
THE large and imposing premises occupied by J. R. Love and Co., tea merchants, in Bathurst-street, opposite St. Andrew's Cathedral, were, shortly before 1 o'clock this morning, attacked by a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Fire in Sydney
Goulburn Herald · Friday 13 April 1900 · page 2
SHORTLY before one a.m. yesterday a fire broke out in the four-storied warehouse of Messrs. J. R. Love and Co., grocers and tea merchants, Bathurst-street, Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire at J. R. Love and Co.'s
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 April 1900 · page 4
Twelve firemen were injured in the fire at Messrs. Love and Co.'s. Howard, whose condition was the most serious, was progressing well on Thursday afternoon. The origin of the fire is still a mystery,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Inquest on a Fire. an Open Verdict
Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 18 April 1900 · page 2
AN inquest was held yesterday at the courthouse by the coroner Mr. H. O'Brien, touching a fire which took place on 12th April at the dwelling house of Martha Leigh in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Inquest on a Fire
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 April 1900 · page 2
THE coroner, Mr. H. O'Brien, conducted an inquest at the Goulburn court-house on Tuesday touching a fire which occurred at the dwelling-house of Martha Leigh in Ellesmere-street on 12th inst. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Canadian Fires Attributed to Fenians
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 April 1900 · page 2
Particulars of the disastrous fires at Hull and Ottawa in Canada state that the fire is attributed to Fenian agency in sympathy with the Boers, and that incendiarism…
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