... for the Colonies in -1896. He said- A war ?? Africa would be one of the most serious wars-that could possibly be waged-. It would be in the nature of a civil war. It would be a long war, a bitter war, a costly ...

... OF GUERNSEY MILITIA- MEN. General Saward, Governor of Guernsey, who left the island on Wednesday bearing a petition to the War Office signed by the mutinous members of the nilitia, returned yesterday, but his instruc- tioe are not yet known. Eleven of ...

... AFFAIRS IN WEST AFRICA. I 6II FIGHTING WITH THE ILLAHS. BRITISH GUNBOATS IN AMTON. P1RESS ASSOCIATION. FOEnION SPECIAL. LIVERPOOr,, JAN. 1-The mail ste~amer Oleuda, Elder Dempster line, from West Africa, docked here this moe-sing, and landed the following ...

... INEWS FROM WEST AFRICA. EXPEDITION AGAINST A FETISH CHIEF. A BISHOP OHARGED WITH LIBEL. t FRFSS ASSOCIATION FOREIGN SPECIAL. Ln-nrooL, MoenAvY.-The Elder, Dempeter liner Oron arrived in the MVersey to-day from W:;est Africa and the Canary lsands. Amongst ...

... conviction that we have earnestly desired peace. Though war is imminent, though it may be that at the moment that I ain speaking wvar has actually begun, that war is none of our seeking. That war is none of our desire, but it has been forced upon us, forced ...

... COLONIAL AND WAR OFFICES. A QUIET DAY. There appears to be no sign of Mr. Charmber- lain's speedy return to London, and yesterday the Colonial Office had one of the quietest days since L affairs in the Transvaal reached a critical stage. At the War Office, ...

... steamship Nul).:t was owned by the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and was chartered by the Government to dice troops to South Africa. The vessel left Soathampton on October 21st, with some fifteen hundred sokdiers, and re.ched St. Vincent on the 29th. leaving ...

... 1876, when he was severely wounded; also served in the Zulu war of 1879 and in the operations against Seku- kuni, when he was mentioned in despatches. His other services include the Egyptian war of 18S2, taking part in the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, Burmese ...

... thle Oovernment's South Afrian plicy i-being evident to them that the war had been inevitable, not because of faulty diplomacy, but owing to Boer designs to usurp supremacy on South Africa; secondly, in main- taining the Unionist Alliance; and, thirdly, in ...

... military secretary 'to Lord Roberts, and Captain Bell Smyth. ! King's Dragoon Guards, at Dublin, go on active .serice in:&outh Africa as aides-de-camp to Lieu- r ?? Lord Methuen, commanding the 1st division. Lieutenant-Colonel Bennet. Royal Ln- gioea-rs, lately ...

... rank of major-general. i Colonel Goldsmid, who becomes chief staff officer of the 6th Infantry livision ordered to South 4 Africa, joined the Royal Monster Fusiliers in 1866, and left the corps in 1888 on promotion to a half- pay lient-colonelcy, becoming ...

... two Governments and the incalcul- able harm and loss it has already occasioned, and to prevent a racial war, from the effects of which South Africa may not, recover for many. genera- tions-perhaps never at all-and, therefore, this Government, having regard ...