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Beyond an occasional slowness of personal movement and thoughtful deliberation of speech there bas always seemed to me to be very little of what is commonly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest news from Pretoria is to the effect that the Boers are coining 100,000 worth of gold monthly. This quality is won from the Bonanzu, Robinson, and Ferreira Deep Level mines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The bombardment of Ladysmith is being witnessed by crowds of gaily dressed ladies from Pretoria, who came by train, and took up a position on the surrounding hills…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The railway culvert and telegraph wires near Graspans were destroyed yesterday. A body of infantry, two guns, and a regiment of cavalry, from Orange River, were sent to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Boers are massing on the heights in front of [?]tein, near Kimberley. They are streng[?] by digging and screening rifle pits and extending the re[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Ladysmith garrison was reported to be safe on the 5th instant. The situation at Ladysmith is becoming daily more difficult…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further particulars are now coming rapidly to hand in connection with the battle of Modder River on the 28th ult., between Lord Methuen’s Kimberley…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following cablegrams were received on Tuesday:— A BRITISH REVERSE. A serious reverse is reported to have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"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 2 →A serious disaster is reported to have taken place at Stormberg to the South of Queenstown. General Gatacre, with a force of three thousand, including the second battalion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A heavy artillery duel has been raging since Sunday, at Magersfontein, between General Methuen's force and the Boers under General Cronje, who are strongly entrenched. The British…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE British forces have met with a serious reverse near Stormberg. General Gata[?]re, with 3000 men, attempted a night surprise upon a force of 2500 Boers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE special correspondent of the "Evening News" writes: -- The total number taken prisoners at Nicholson's N[?]k, when the Gloster's and R. Irish Fusiliers had to surrender,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE armo[?]red train went out from Colo[?]so an hour before dusk, and on arriving at Fort Molyn[?]aux found that the small garrison had been subjected to a hot shrapnel and rifle fire,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The railway culvert and telegraph wires near Graspans were destroyed yesterday. A body of infantry, two guns and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When General Gatacre's column was surprised by the Boers near Stormberg the British infantry acted as coolly as if on parade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following cablegrams were received on Friday:— A POSITION HELD. Lord Methuen reports that be has [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As we went in. I, for the first time, took a good look at my companion. He was a fine, tall, handsome man, with a military air and stride; he loosened his overcoat as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The total British losses to date are 560 killed; 2027 wounded; and 1977 missing. The despatch of the sixth army division is being hurried on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further particulars of the recent fighting near Spytfontein state that the Boer force was assembled at the foot of the eastern spur of a kopje before daybreak on Monday…
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