The Transvaal War London
GENERAL French has dispatched an over-whelming force to seize Norval Pont, on the Flee State border, for the purpose of cutting off the Boers' retreat. Reinforcements are being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northern Rivers · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1900
347 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 18
The South African War. London
COLONEL THORNEYCROFT ordered the retirement from Spion Kop, and General Buller acquits the COlonel of all blame, and declares he directed the battle with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in South Africa. London, Tuesday Afternoon
An insolent message from Presidents Steyn and Kruger has been sent to Lord Roberts, in which they describe the British troops as "white brigands indulging in general desolation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Great Boer Conspirncy. a Tale of the Transvaal War. 1800-1900. (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter Iv. Barbara Van Berg
Beyond an occasional slowness of personal movement and thoughtful deliberation of speech there has always seemed to me to be very little of what is commonly supposed to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War in South Africa. London
The Boers' hold an aggressive position between Rensberg and Colesberg. General French with his cavalry harasses east and west of Major-General MacDonald, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Letter From Trooper Arthur Daley
Trooper Arthur Daley, of the Listmore Half-squadron of the N.S.W. Lancers, writes from Arundel on December 17 to his sister at Alstonville as follows, as reported…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The War. Another Queen Slander's Letter. Orange River, Dec. 24
Five hundred miles and a few odd chains from Capetown, on the Northen line, is De Aar, the main base of operations for General Methuen's division. To…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War in South Africa. the Late Sergt.-major Griffin's Letter to His Brother
LIEUTENANT W. T. GRIFFIN, of the Gundagai troop Australian Horse, received the following letter from his brother, the late Sergeant-Major Griffin:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Great Boer Conspiracy. a Tale of the Transvaal War. 1899-1900. (All Rights Reserved.) CHAPTER IV—(Continued)
'The treaties and conventions signed in South Africa,' interposed Albert, 'expressed the then voice of the people of the country in regard to certain matters;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boer War Notes
THERE was a letter the other day in one of the up-country Cape Colony papers from Olive Schreiner, very much in the same hectoring tone which she adopted towards the British in her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stern War Realities
THE war in South Africa is a great monopolist. It fills up a fifth of tho daily papers, and it is the great subject of remark in the family and in public. The weather even has taken a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Feeling in New York
WRITING in December on the war, a New York correspondent says:—The news of the serious British reverses in South Africa excite almost as much interest here as they…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Transvaal War London
LORD ROBERTS, on reviewing the Highlanders at the Modder River, said the Brigade would soon have a chance of avenging Magorsfontein, and predicts the campaign will be a…
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General Buller crossed the Tugela River on Monday, and is now advancing towards Ladysmith. The cannonade at the Drift whore he crossed was the fiercest of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Coraki Soldier at the Front
TROOPER H. THOMAS, who was one of the contingent who went for military training in England last year, writing to his parents at Coraki, says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In Time of War
THIS hymn, specially written by the Rev. Walter J. Mathams. F.R.G.S., author of "Comrades All " and "Jack Ahoy," was sung at a concert given in the Empire Palace Theatre,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War in South Africa. London
Correction.—The Supplementary Estimates contain a proposed vote of £13,000,000, providing for 120,000 additional men. LONDON, MONDAY AFTERNOON…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War in South Africa. Letter From Trooper Daley
Trooper Arthur Daley, in a second letter to his father, dated Rensburg, Jan. 2, says:—"Just a few lines to let you know I have not had my light blown out yet. Well, we have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trichinopoly and the War. the Hindu Prayer Meeting in the Rock Temple
IN pursuance of the notice previously published a model meeting of the Hindu Sabha was held in the mantapam in the Rock Temple on the evening of 24th December…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Great Boer Conspiracy. a Tale of the Transvaal War. 1899-1900. (All Rights Reserved.) CHAPTER V. an Important Interview
That evening eight o'clock came long before I was ready for it, and with the hour a closed carriage stood waiting at my door. It was a dark night and the wind blew…
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