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Mr. A. J. Balfour, leader of the House of Commons, in the course of a speech at Manchester, said that the Government would never accept a peace which would be a prelude to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Trooper H. Fisher, formerly a resident of Newcastle, who has seen a good deal of service in South Africa with local volunteer regiments, returned last night, and was accorded…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON. January 13. 2.52 p.m.— The "Times" correspondent at Ermelo says that the latest successes show that rapid night marches and surprises were the only means of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The sloop Condor, from Esquimault to Honolulu, is overdue. The Condor is a screw sloop of 980 tons, and is commanded by Commander Chifton Selater. She is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—Subscribed by Mr. Geo. C. Whitney, appears one of the most extraordinary letters it has been my lot to meet with, in your issue of the 6th instant, and with your kind permission…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, January 13. 3 p.m.—Mr. George Wyndham, Chief Secretary for Ireland, describes the agitation in Ireland as simply a modern equivalent for civil war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Chamberlain, in the course of his speech at Birmingham, said his opponents must find another scapegoat for the vile and infamous falsehoods disseminated in foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, January 13. 2.52 p.m.—A conference of the chief officers with Commandant De Wet has been held to consider the advisability of ending the war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Pretoria correspondent of the "Standard" reports that the correct number of Boers in the field is 13,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Armoured trains from Kroonstnd and Wolvehoek prevented Commandant de Wet and 1200 men from crossing the railway line. The Boors retired eastwards,. Colonel De Lisle is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The return of Colonel H.P. Airey, D.S.O., who airived from the war by the steamer Moravian on Saturday, was due to a misinterpretation of a cable that was sent by the New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The following is a copy of a telegraphic despatch received by his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor from the chief casualty officer, Capetown--"Arthur Charet, Kitchener's Fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Greek named Meuias Camphis, 28, who is employed in a fishop in Pitt-street, was taken by Constable Blackburn to Sydney Hospital yesterday, where he was treated for incised wounds on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At Antigua, one of the Leeward Islands, a camp of Boer prisoners is being formed. At the inquest on the boby of a man…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--"The Times" states that the captures at Ermelo, and the latest British successes, show that rapid night marches and surprises are the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--In his speech at Belfast, Mr. George Wyndham, Chief Secretary for Ireland, described agrarian agitation as simply the modern…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Major F. D. Wing has intercepted a letter from Commandant Plet Viijoen announcing that Commandant Oppermann, the chief leader of the south-eastern commandos of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lord Ritchener telegraphs to the War Officer as follows:—"Since my last a week ago columns report 20 Boers killed, 9 wounded, 203 prisoner. 93 surrenders."…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, January 14, 2.20 p.m.—The Government has purchased 80,000 morgen of land near Ficksburg, 43,000 morgen near Thabanehu. and more elsewhere in Orange…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Boer doctor states that in the engagement at A mersfoort, Transvaal on January 5 between Major Vallentin and Commandant Christian Botha the enemy had 42 killed and…
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