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The movement for the formation of a half-squadron of Lancers, which has been taken up so enthusiastically at Hurstville, has assumed definite shape, and a requisition signed by over fifty…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ARMIDALE, Monday.--The Bishop of Grafton and Armidale, who volunteered for service in the Transvaal, and was refused permission to proceed to the front by the Diocesan Council,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our correspondent, in New York, writing on December 23, makes the following comments on the position of the United States:- To the observant foreigner it must seem…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Ladysmith relief force is now spreading on to the tops of the hills fronting the Boer entrenchments, and has reached the elevated land which stretches clear away to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the fighting on Sunday, when Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Warren's force engaged the Boers at Spion Kop, the Dublin Fusiliers carried a strong…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The details published on Saturday afternoon in the "Evening News" came as a welcome relief to the anxiety and suspense that had been felt in Parramatta with regard to the identity of the men…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Further particulars of Sunday's engagement, when Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Warren's force succeeded in capturing three more advanced positions, state that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further intelligence has been received from the seat of war. It is to the effect that on Saturday last Lieutenant-General Sir Chas. Warren attacked a strong Boer force,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, January 22.—The turning of the main Boer position has been successfully begun. The enemy's extreme right, to the eastward of Acton Homes, occupied a ridge extending four…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Warren's force met with further successes today in continuing the advance upon Ladysmith…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Sir Charles Warren won further successes against the Boers to-day. The rifle and cannon fire during the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir William M'Cornick, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, considers that the arrangements made by the British Commander-in-Chief for the care of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →With respect to Ladysmith, the real centre of war, the position now, as nearly as it can be gauged from the cable news, is that Generals Warren and Clery are almost round Spion Kop,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A "More Men" Fund has been started in Wanganui (N.Z.), and Premier Sedden, telegraphing of the Mayor of the town, said: "I believe the people of Wanganui are on the right track. What…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Even now, says the "Sketch," balloons have their great uses in time of war. If the opinion of Continental experts is worth anything, there is little doubt that the conduct of the next great…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Sir Wm. MacCormac, the eminent British surgeon, who is now at the front as P.M.O. on Gen. Buller's staff, considers that the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Mitchell, the London "Standard" correspondent at Ladysmith has died from typhoid fever. Mr. Ferrand, the correspondent for the "Morning Post," was killed in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, December 22.--The splendid response of militia, volunteers, and full-fledged civilians of all classes in England to the last "call to arms," and the equally, splendid answer made to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The news, first of the wounding, then of the death, of Corporal Fred Kilpatrick of the Parramatta Half-squadron of the N.S.W. Lancers Regiment, threw a dark gloom over the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In response to a request, Field-Marshal Lord Roberts sent to the American and Canadian people through the Associated Press the following message:--…
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