... Sumatra than we found ia Ashantee. A. telegranm from The Hague, dated yesterday, says the Achinese persist in continuing the war. Africa occupies a pretty considerable part of our la.test news this morning. T1 stars with, h:re is a rumoui at Cape Cuost Caszld ...

... helping them. Even should the war continue for years, the great Queen will go on sending out armies, as the English always do what they say they will do. I shall not leave Africa until the war is finished. This is a war against the King, who has broken ...

... cutting north-east wind sweep- ing along the deck, distinctly recalling the November day I first sailed for Southern Africa. The Zulu war, the story of which is now rapidly becoming an old-thne legend, was then on the tip of every tongue. Cottewayo, and ...

... REQUIRE. NOTICE BY THE' WAR OFFICE. - The War Office has supplied the Press Associa- tion -with the following list of articles required by I British troops in South Africa, prepared from the' 'best information available at the War Office, but it does not ...

... permits. Royalty may possibly be represented, and all the military chiefs at the | War Office who can possibly manage it will be pre- sent. Lord Roberts was engaged at the War Office yesterday morning and again in the afternoon at a time when, according to ...

... any of the forecasts cabled from South Africa were in any way justified by the text. The Press Association ?? Lansdowne is expected to remain in Ireland until the end of the month, unless his presence at the War Office is required earlier in consequence ...

... Buller to South Africa at the end of October. Lord Roberts, who bad been at the' War Office, arrived in Dublin from London yesterday morning, and proceeded to the Royal Hospital to make pre- paratoons for his hasty departure for South Africa. He is expected ...

... CRUMLIN. ORGANISAITON OF A WAR FUND. A public meeting was held last night in tine Masonic Hall, Cramlin, with the object of or- ganising a local fund in aid of the families of the soldiers and sailors engaged in the war in South Africa. The attendance, which ...

... poor-rate collectors. THE ASHANTEE WAR. THE following letter has been received by Dr. Henry MacCormae in reply to his communicationF on the subject of the preservation of the soldiers' health in West Africa:- Horse Guards, War Office, 11th November, 1873. ...

... in oas opinion, it was not qualified, and remarked thbat it. was no more fitted to conduct administration or war in Central Africa than the War Office was to conduct the administration. Sir JAMfES FERGUSSON defended the Foreign Office system, and thought ...

... gross mismanagement in connection with f this Transvaal business, and it began by with- . drawing the troops from South Africa after the war with the Zulus, and when it was well understood that the Boors were in a very boorish mood. But economy and retrencho ...

... stations above Newcastle. The War Office yesterday received no news of the commknenement of hostilities or the movement -of Colonel Baden-Powell's force at Mafeking to meet the Boers, or of any movement of. troops tn South Africa due' to the new developments ...