War Notes
It is becoming the fashion for ladies in England to wear silver Boer coins on bangles, but beyond that the Transvaal coinage is in a bad way. It is likely that in…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1900
1,109 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 56
South African Trade After the War
Out of £16,682,438 worth of goods which Cape Colony imported during 1898, no less than £11,503,771 worth was supplied by Great Britain, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Loan. Passed in the Commons
LONDON, Wednesday.—The War Loan Bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons by 268 to 21, Sir Vernon Harcourt endorsing it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Progress of the War. Boer Appeal to Britain for Peace. Impudent Pretences. Lord Salisbury's Reply to the Presidents. an Emphatic Refusal. Britain's Reasons for Rejection. Correspondence Read in Parliament. Salisbury's Answer Cheered. The Boer Presidents and Britain. Their Appeal for Peace. Impudent Pretences. LordSalisbury's Reply. an Emphatic Refusal. Britain's Reasons for Rejection. the Correspondence Read in Parliament. Salisbury's Reply Cheered by the Peers
LONDON, Wednesday.—Last night Lord Salisbury, in the House of Lords, and Mr. Balfour in the House of Commons, read telegrams from Presidents…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Experience in War Time
We have been handed the following extract by a correspondent from an Australian "youth now in South Africa, and the contents, we think, are well worth perusal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Further Precautions in Newcastle. War Against the Rats. a Run on Disinfectants
The Mayor and his officers continue to lake the most stringent measures is their efforts to enforce cleanliness in the city, Alderman Miller being anxious to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What Becomes of the Wounded
An army loses far more of the strength through its wounded them through its killed. In the first place, there are four or five wounded to one…
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For some time past we have not heard anything about Sir Redvers Buller. The last news about him was that he had held a review at Ladismith,…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The London "Daily Telegraph" fund will devote the proceeds from the sale of Messrs. Raphael Tuck and Son's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What War Does
War-destroyers but it also gives a fillup to trade and industry. It is the greatest of consumers. France was utterly bankrupt in 1780. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Imperial War Loan. £500,000,000 OFFERED
LONDON, Thursday.—The subscription list for the War Loan of £30,000,000, which was offered at a minuimum of 98½, bearing interest at 2½ per…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The First to Enter Bloemfontein. an Australian War Correspondent
LONDON, Friday.—Mr. Paterson, the Australian war correspondent, was the first man to enter Bloemfontein. He guided Mr. Fraser to Lord Roberts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →How Our Soldiers Cook in the Field
When hard work such as campaigning is to be done, men must be well fed. In the field the soldier must have meat and he must have bread. As much variety as…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Mafeking Garrison. a Soldier Degraded
LONDON, Thursday.—Sergeant Major Looney, of the Commissariat Department, has been publicly degraded at Mafeking, and sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Casualties at Driefontein. KILLED 83, WOUNDED 308, INCLUDING 6 N.S. WELSHMEN
LONDON, Saturday .— The British killed at Dreyfontein numbered 83, including Trooper Abrahams, of the New South Wales Mounteds, and 308…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Adamstown. Death of an Old Soldier
At noon on Saturday, an old soldier in the person of Mr. George Flint, died at his residence on New Lambton Estate. Deceased, who was a gunner in the 6th Battery of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Despatch From Lord Roberts. the Enthusiasm in Bloemfontein. Boers Surrendering. Free Staters Refuse Steyn's Summons. Commandants Returning Home. Boers Leaving for Their Farms. Operations on the Orange River. Kruger "Annexes" the Free State. The Capture of Bloemfontein. The Enthusiasm of the People. Steyn Charged with Cowardice. the Burghers to Discontinue the War
LONDON, Friday.—The extraordinary cordiality of Lord Roberts's reception at Bleomfontein is attributed to the relief which it gave the Free…
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An American engineer residing in London has shown his sympathy with the loyalty of the colonial troops by giving £100 to the fund for providing the Queenslanders with…
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In the "Primitive Methodist" of 14th inst. is published a letter dated 5th inst., from the Rev. James Green, formerly stationed in Newcastle, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →M. Lockroyd and the Prospect of War
LONDON, Monday.—M. Lockroy, late Minister for Marine in France, writing to the "Patrie," a leading paper in Paris, states that a war between…
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