The War. Olivier Captured. London
During the Boer attack on Winburg, Orange River Colony, on Sunday last, when they were repulsed with heavy loss by Lieutenant-General Bruce Hamilton, eight…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1900
1,602 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 62 of 81
War in South Africa. Transvaal Annexed. Marching to Lydenburg. Boer Outrage. Boer Defeats. London, Sept. 3
LORD ROBERTS has annexed the Transvaal. 1500 Boers are hastening to Komatipoort to oppose a British force which they expect to arrive from Swaziland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War News. in South Africa
General Baths is reported to have said that he will not fight again, and that be is running away out of shame, The Boers, after cutting the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boer War. Ladybrand Besieged. the Two Presidents
Commandants Grobelaar's, Fouries', Lemmer's, and Sasebrock's commandoes are besieging Ladybrand and have commandeered all the able-bodied men. They threatened…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. British March on Lydenburg. Boer Defeats. London, Sept. 4
General Sir Redvers Buller has reached the northen bank of the Crocodile River. Later. General Sir Redvers Buller is marching on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War Battle Near Lydenburg. British Behave Magnificently. London, Sept. 5
General Louis Botha, the Boer Commander-in-Chief, with several thousand men and four big guns, is holding a strong position overlooking Lydenburg…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. Surrender of Large Quantity of Stock. Boer Outrage at Klip River. Natal Claims the Seat of Government. Reported Death of Delarey. London, Wednesday Afternoon
Ten Boers surrendered to the British at Eerstefabricken with 5000 sheep, 800 cattle, 50 horses, and several waggons and carts. THE KLIP RIVER RAID…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. London, Sept. 2
DURING the attack by the Boers on Winburg, when General Olivier was captured, eight of the Capetown volunteers made a sortie and occupied a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. London, Sept. 4
GENERAL BULLER is marching on Lydenburg. Commandant Villcen, near Nooitgedacht, seized a number of ambulance mules…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in South Africa. Battle Near Lydenburg. Siege of Ladybrand Raised. the Annexation of the Transvaal. London, September 5
GENERAL BOTHA'S position overlooking Lydenburg is compared to the position which the Boors hold at Laing's Nek. He maintains a continual fire on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Chinese War.—russia's Startling Proposal.— Its Unreasonableless.— Disregard of All Interests Except Her Own.— Partition of China Justifiable.— Her Present Government a Wrong to Her People and to Others
THE proposal of Russia that the powers, having delivered the besieged legations, shall now retire from Pekin comes as a surprise and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bungendore. Welcome Home
ON last Wednesday evening Trooper J. B. McJannett arrived in Bungendore by the evening train, having returned by the s s. Damascus, he being the first of the local invalids to return to…
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Seven hundred persons having gathered in the neighbourhood of Johannesburg the garrison has been strengthened. Mr. Hofmeyer, the leader of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Opposed to the Transvaal War. London, Sept. 6
The Trades Union Congress sitting at Huddersfield has by a small majority passed a resolution stating that the war in South Africa is cruel and unnecessary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. March on Lydenburg. London, Sept. 7
Lieutenant-General Ian Hamilton, ordered to march to the assistance of General Sir Redvers Buller, whose march on Lydenburg has been checked by General Louis Botha, is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. Boers Threatened by Natives. Siege of Ladybrand Raised. London, Sept. 6
The casualties of General Sir Redvers Buller's army since August 21 number 270. The Boers' casualties are many more than the British…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Back From the War
BY the S.S. Wilcannia, which arrived at Adeladie on Friday, [?]me Private Charles Tonkin, of Yass, who has been expected home for some time. Private…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in South Africa. Boers Removing to Pilgrims' Rest. Lydenburg Occupied
LIEUT.-GENERAL IAN HAMILTON, marching to the assistance of General Buller, and who was checked by General Louis Botha, is making a wide turning and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. London, Sept. 7
IN besieging Lady brand, the Beers lost 24 killed and 36 wounded. The enemy has retreated to the north-west in the direction of Allandale, which is half-way…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. London, Sept. 6
THE casualties of General Buller's army since August 21 number 270. The Boer losses are many more than the British…
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