... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Wcdnesbury. - Samuel Platt, Enginecr. Wednee- bury. A Ll Buyers or iron and 'were Fencimg. Burdfse, lailings, Gates, A Tree Guards, Wine Bins, galrvnised Corrugated Sbeets, fc. should write for lowest prices n the Msaznfacturersr, Bayliss, Jones, and Bayliss ...

... explode, and our men were not disturbed. This morning the bluejackets fired a few leisurely rounds at the enemy, i who made no reply. A Lancer paturu went out this morning and was fired at by the Doer guns at long range. We had rs casualties, and the men ...

... eight gold wvatches, twvo diamoond rings, fifeen goid guards. hwenty gold alberts, 1303 gold rings, twenty- sevenl siiverrines, thirty gold brooches, sixty-seven silver alberts, five silver guards, twzo silver neeklets with lockets, three gold bangles ...

... TO DEATE. A fire broke out yesterday morning in a house at Chester in which a man named Hesketh, his wife, and four little children lodged.. Mks. HekethiL was out when .lamnes were discovered, and it was not until her return 3that the fire brigade learned ...

... towards their position. By ten o'elock the fire had much increased from all sides, and the Boers occupying the northern end of the hill began to advance in strong attack along the- saddle - back frontaL The fire now grew very heavy and the losses were continual ...

... drawing the enemy's fire. The Boers opened aheavy rifie fire at extreme range, and after- wards brought into action two quick-firing field- pieces, a Maxim-Nordenfelt gun, and a Maxim. The artillery fire was not well directed, and the rife ...

... the Boers during the nichrt. Moreover, when, our cavalry again ad- r vanced to dislodge them, it was found that the quick--firing guns Mihich we were supposed to have disabled on the paevionus day were still very service- able, and even formidable weapons ...

... the Ron. G. Portman, 10th Hussars; Privates T. McDonald and J. W. Thorn pson, 1st Battalion Scots Guards ; Private G. Richards, 1st Cold- stream Guards; Gunner F.. A. - Cresswell, 38th Battery c Royal Field Artillery; DriverG. James Woolnough. 37th Battery ...

... lightnirg fired off two of our mines, but nobody was hurt. Some of the Vryburg refugees who have arrived here from Barkly complain bitterly of their treatment bv the Boers. December 29.-Beyond the firing of a few rifle shots on the cattle guards by the Boers ...

... duty. - About four hundred men of the Scots. Cold- c stream, and Grenadier Guards left London yester- i day for Southampton, en route for South Africa, v to reinforce the Guards' Brigade with Lord I M.TEUEru on the Modder River. t At the second day's sitting ...