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General Sir A. Hunter's division is assembling at Kimberley, and will probably concentrate with Carrington's Bushmen at Rhodesia to compel the raising of the siege of Mafeking…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The mounted forces forming part of General Hamilton's command are straining every nerve to reach Ladybrand first in the race with the fleeing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last week the cables informed us that the Boers who were besieging Wepener were retreating along the Basutoland border. Later cables contradicted this,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Six New Zealand Rough Riders, whilst scouting near Boesken Kop, fiercely fought with six Boers at fifty yards, killing three and wounding three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lord Roberts declined to accept General Buller's resignation. Since the recent explosion, all the British residents have been expelled from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War sweeps are now popular at London clubs. The sharers in it pay each a guinea as entrance money, and when the British army has really…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By no means the least startling features of a war which has been so full of surprises will only be fully revealed when it is ended, and it is possible to prepare the bill…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lord Roberts has commenced a great enveloping movement with 18,000 troops. Mounted forces are sweeping the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →QUITE independently of such well-known ex-soldier clergymen as the present Archbishop of York and one of his immediate predecessors in that dignity,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →General French's cavalry junctioned with General Hamilton's and Dorrien Smith's forces, near Thaba'nchu on Friday morning. They combined…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A dispatch has been received from Mafeking, dated 20th April, reporting "all well." Three thousand Boers under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Roberts has commenced a great envelloping movement, with 18,000 troops and mounted force. He is sweeping tho whole of the enemy's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On account of pressure on our space on Thursday we were compelled to hold over the items of war news. To enable our readers to keep up the thread of the story, we append a resume of the news:—Colonel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →COLONEL HAMILTON has dispersed the Boers at Hautnek capturing 26 including the Commandant. The Boers admit 12 killed and 40 wounded. On Monday the foreign leigon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Queen has given 500 and the Prince of Wales 250 guineas to the Ottawa fire relief fund. General Brabant has arrived at a position…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following has been received by wire since last issue:— Saturday. The divisions under Generals Tucker,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Troopers Whittington, of the New South Wales Lancers, and M. J. Ford, of the New South Wales First Australian Horse, captured in January last, have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lord Roberts has wired that on Saturday, at the Vet River after shelling the Boer position for three hours, until dusk, Major-General Hutton's Brigade of Mounted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dooley on the war, evidently commenting on the D[?] victory:— [?] at eight o'clock," he says, [?] found our [?] but [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the fighting at Brandfort, when the first line of the Boer force was met by the advancing British divisions, it was found that about 4000 of the enemy occupied a strong position. The…
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