... passed the first guard, she bad 296 W; by selling to that guard 149, which the plus 4, she had 147 remaining; to the second guard she disposed of 74, which the major half ot 147; and, of course, after selling 37 out of 73 the last guard, she had still three ...

... made on her while among the Boers was that the Burghers | were heartily sick of war. They had lost almost as ; many from the fire of our sharpshooters as they would have done had they taken the town by storm. Thej T were dirty and destitute of comforts ...

... tioned that the district of which this settle- ment is the centre was largely disaffected. 0 the night of the 28th tho troops guarding »iie station were turned out to repel an attack upon the line, and beat back the enemy, or, to bo more accurate, the rebels ...

... experience truest friendship Hudson Market opposite RYT Wireworker Albert-road Middlesbrough for and Gravel Cinder Screens Fire Guards manufactured Tel Pony Cob cse— Brass Solid Plated Prices £3 Bits each— 3 Short'a 21 C o buyers Coal buyers Coal buyers Order ...

... Modder River we I Gras pan for water and foe land there is railway I unfortunate Marquis of W the Guards killed.” GOOD CAUSE Private William Crost | Guards, has written B'l 'fetter from No. 2 General date December 13th, in v. I have, I suppose, read in ...

... opened fire with two guns. They directed tlheir fire, which was accurte, at our naval 'is. Oar ?? replied most wc utely, I but the enemy's guns conld not be seen. After- , wards a third Boer gun, posted to the west of thc the railway, also opened fire. There ...

... State Government, bur were subsequently released. The cuter loyalist .stores and help themselves to the stock, while others guard the entrance with rifles. (From the Special C of the Dally Telegraph** to “The Yorkshire Post.**) Cape Town, Wednesday, scheme ...

... sleeper. One of the first portions of the force to cross the river was our naval Long Tom —we have great faith in Long Tom. He fires a shell weigh. ing 521 b, which, when filled with lyddite, is likely to be extremely unpleasant to the Boers in the kopje to ...

... Naval Brigade, and the whole the 9th Brigade tha axtrmas left. Colonel Paget, the oMcer commanding the Beets Guards, woe Brigadier of the Guards Brigade, and General Chtaw of the Brigade. The engagement on right. For tha finttimsthe enemy showed himself ...

... advancing to attack them, and c they kept up an intermittent fire of musketry till midnight. The British infantry did not fire a shot. The promptness of the Boers' response to our gun fire seems to show that they are living in their trenches. Natives ...

... Nordenfelt guns fired several rounds at the cavalry. Further still to the East on the kopje, which juts out in a southerly direction, is a gun apparently to run on rails. After firing the shot it disap- o^-a round tho back of the kopje and fires another ?? ...

... Lord Winchester after the battle of Modder Rivor to the Duke Portland. Lord Winchester, who was a major in the Coldstream Guards, was kii'.od Magersfontein: Oamp. Modder River. South Africa.—»We have been very bury fighting our way up from Orange Riv> ...