... targets for our rifles. 1 Immediately they replied From a Iong reach Iof trenchies with sharp firing at nobody and ,nothing,. HalI an hour later this firing vwas repeated without damage to us in either case. T'ais naorriing the Boers Lired at our i1- ...

... chances. p I FORMATION OF TOWN GUARD pea AT GRAHAMSTOWN. Th ir I -e (Press Association War Special.) i--l Grahamstown, December 28. A A large meeting of citizens was hold here last ster night to consider the formation of a ton guard.eve )r i The ATeayor prosided ...

... quarter of an hour. Again we may ask whether the exact position of the trenes was not !nown befere our men were sent into a fire- swtept, coverlevs zone, from which they were ?? to retire. It wiil be seen that our Correspondenmt attributes the favoura-ble ...

... .e Guards, Grenadiers, lst and 2d Coldstreams, and Argylls in front, with the 18th Battery, Naval Brigade, and the whole of the 9th Bri- gade on the extreme left. Colonel Paget, the officer commanding the Scots Guards, was Brigadier of the Guards Brigade ...

... belongs to the 1'?th Lancers . Philip Wright, of the R lDivision, the 3rd Dragoon Guards; and Frederick Payne, also of the E Division,-who isa reservist of the 2nd Dringoon Guards. Police - constable Harris should also fiave been ptresert. but he depattod before ...

... ttemselves to armfu.S of stock, while others guard tke entrance with rifles. VICTORIA WEST, Dee. 27. At half--past six last evening our picket came in irom tne koope beyond the station and re- ported tha they had been fired upon. T-hey had seen a pato1 of Boers ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... nt points. Dec. 29. si There was an alarm last evening at the et British camp at Victoria 1Vst, and a sharp P am exchange of fire with a body of Boers, whose ras intention, it is believed, is to cut the raill*ay. A steamer has been placed at the disposal ...

... officers of their respective Yeomanry regiments, supplemented by ex-cavalry officers from the H-xse Guards, and so on. ?? dear Sir, we-have had numbers of ?? Guards officers in South Africa for thie.las't fifteen or twenty years, and very fine men they become ...

... 'Argyll 'aisd Sutherland. igh-. dlanders were'sent up to' support the firing line. Witha' steady swing thwy seweptcinto 'theizonel ' 'of. fire.' i 'hn' hialf-way uip to ' the firing. line they were ordered to snppoirt on the left' of the railway, instead ...

... cover, overwhelm w Id them with fire. 1m L8 For not many days more will Lady- el smith's gallant garrison be required to lay m low behind, their. wories. It The relief column will surely free their id ih'nas from guarding the town and camps, ia and will ...