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Riverina · The wars & local soldiers
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The latest news from South Africa states that many Boers were seen retreating in the direction of Biggarsburg. The British are sending additional…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The British have occupied Moorfontoin, Knilfontoin and Rensberg. Further particulars of the latest reverse of General Baller's force state…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further particulars have been received of the British victory at Picter's Hill, which led to the relief of Ladysmith. Huge boulders skeltered the trenches…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →enthusiasm effected great clearances of wines, spirits, tobacco, and tea. The distinguished surgeon, Sir William MacCormac, who had lately been to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cronje's food supplies, with the exception of meat, were exhausted, but he had plenty of ammunition. Boer prisoners captured at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Queen has wired to Generals Buller and White, thanking God for the recent British victories. General White replied that any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many touching scenes occurred at Ladysmith. Women, in tears, embraced the rescuers. Strong men wept. Seventy waggon-loads of stores…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Hales, the West Australian war correspondent, was liberated at Bloemfontein, and has rejoined the British forces. He reports that the Boers are treating…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Government is issuing the bonds or stock for the war loan at a fixed price. The term of the loan is not to exceed a decade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two thousand of the Ladysmith garrison joined in the pursuit of the Boers upon their flight from Isimbulwana before General Sir Redvers Buller's army…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the House of Commons last night Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered his Budget speech. He stated that the Government proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A reconnainance by the New South Wales Lancers and the Inniskilling Dragoons has disclosed the fact that the Boers are near Osfontein, occupying the kopjes on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the House of Commons last night Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered his Budget speech…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LORD Roberts, whose headquarters are at Osfontein, has now 60,000 troops under his command, and this number is being constantly increased by the arrival of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dr. Leyds, the Transvaal Envoy, affirms that the Cape Assembly will shortly vote strongly in favor of the independence of the Boers being maintained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Imperial Government has cabled to the Australian Premiers asking for an additional force of two thousand bushmen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BELOW we give extracts from a letter received in town by a friend from Trooper Priddle:â "Arundal South Africa, "January 30, 1900…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A strong British forces marched northward from Kimberley with the object of relieving Mafeking and expect to meet with, resistance at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A reconnaisance by the New South Wales Lancers and the Inniskilling Dragoons has disclosed the fact that the Boers are near,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Brabant, with 1800 men, holds the fort at Labushagnes Nek. The Boers were mercilessly pounded, and were expelled from the lower…
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