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A CABLE dated Thursday last stated that Reuter's Shangat correspondent reports that the foreigners who were besieged in the British Legation at Pekin, made a desperate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ex-PRESIDENT STEYN, of the late Orange Free State, nee fled from. Bethlehem to the mountains. At midnight on Wednesday, the 4th inst.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TROOPER W. [?] BLACK, of the Murrum[?] bu[?] Hurden [?]roup of the 1st Australian Horse, who was one of the members of the earliest contingent leaving Sydney for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →COL. BRYAN MAHON, who commanded the successful Mafeking Relief Force, and Major-General Hutton, commanding a mixed force, have defeated 2000 Boers who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT has recently been confirmed that Prince Ching, "The Foreigners' Fiend," who was superseded in the Presidency of the Tsungli-Yamen by Prince Tuan, is promoting a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MAJOR GENERAL FRENCH, of this colony, makes the following very sensible remarks and suggestions in a letter written by him to the London "Times" early in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Amongst the invalided soldiers to arrive in Sydney yesterday was one who is almost a native of Balgownie, having lived there for so many years. We refer to Private…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Roberts reports that 1500 Boers, with five guns, broke through the cordon of Lieutenant General Sir A. Bundle and Lieutenant General Sir H. M…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Tzuen at Hailar officially declared war against the Russians in Manchuria, Great excitement prevails in Russia…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest news to hand is that Lieut-General Lord Methuen on Saturday completely dispersed the Boers at Olipliantsnek, seven miles south-west of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The cost of the present war in South Africa is estimated at 120,000,000. A writer in an English. magazine has gone to the trouble of finding out how…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Donald M'Donald, who acted as the war correspondent for the "Sydney Morning Herald" at South Africa, and who is now on a lecturing tour at Albury,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Boers have fled from Middleburg (on the Delagoa Bay railway line) to the mounains at Lydenburg, before Lord Roberts' army, which is again actively…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LIKUT.-GENERAL HlNTznI has had a big tiitumph in O;rge River Colony, Geodral Prinaloo esurrendering unconditionally with a force of 0000 Boere at Fouriesburg,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BADEN POWELL is again besieged, his time at Rustenburg, in the Western Timevaal Kitchener is going to is relief. General Methuen was fighting at last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the instance of a number of local gentlemen, in all probability Mr. Donald M'Donald, who acted aa war correspondent in South Africa for the "Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As announced in last issue of this journal Balgownie's only representative in South Africa has returned invalided. Mr Bird left our shores about 7 months ago attached…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday morning Private E A; M'Clelland arrived in Sydney by the Aberdeen, invalided home from the war. He is expected to return how a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENERAL FRENCH'S cavalry is well in advance of Lord Roberts' main army in the march castward from Pretoria. No organized Boer resistance was encountered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LORD ROBERTS [?]ars that the British gar[?] ri[?] at [?]lands [?]ver. under Lieut-coloneal Hoare, of the [?] Dragoon Guards. has been captured by the Boers after resisting…
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