... Hoers in possession. Twenty volun-| teers fell killed and wounded, inclading Capt. Kpapp, before a squadron of the sth Dragoon Guards, sent out post haste, relioved the pressure. The skirmish was di’nfied by a gallant deed on the part of Lieut. IHon. Pommeroy ...

... give you the best that money can buy. When winter winds, with hands of toe. Outdoors our noses nin; Indoor-, with the roaring fire, bow moe. The ‘.JOII.S Hditilll ir.A to -i** enjoy the flavour it gives our tood— The butter'd toast, and all things good. ...

... shell be fired OM ettmaffil out heads aial fell about:fifty yards in the rear of the gun. lie was 11141C11 a good shot that they all dropped in the same place. Co I ied. rather safe for that ruses Alcoa. Our calomel maim along, and, seeing the fire was so ...

... slowly creeping on. At 8.45 the Guards Brigade went forward with a rush. It simply rained bullets on them—big gun, machine gun, rifle fire. The ground around them seemed alive, and men were dropping thickly. The Soots Guards' Maxim Detachment was absolutely ...

... enemy's shells fell • few yards from the lamellal tent erected a few miles to the war of the firing tine. and it we. stated that the enemy's higittlf war fired upon as ambulance wagon Into in the afternoon, when. presumably, it being token from the held ...

... naval which had been previously laid on farmhouse where Boera wcte supposed eep, was fired, bit unfortunately missed. This was the first night on\ which there has been firing. The heavy rains tl,e last few days have raised the southern tributarily several ...

... 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 ...

... Elia Royal Highness has served in the Army thirty-one years. He be. came a General in 1893. New Tear's greetings from the Guards wall Lord Methuen are cabled by our Correspondenn at Modder River. The 9th Lancers axe particularly facetious. After a reference ...

... clearly visible. From the top of the low ridges north of Fret e, where Hildyard's Brigade, with the naval and other batteries, guard the front of our spacious camp, lying screened in the hollows, can be seen the hills around Duodee, and to the east Job's Sop ...

... positive orders that no surrender was to be made, took it upon himself wave a pocket handkerchief. The Boers immodi ceased firing, and with equal daring and human.!y dozen horsemen galloped from the hills into the scattered fugitives, scarcely any of whom ...

... intended assault, or were merely suffering from a bad attack of nerves, but not ahot fired in return At dawn. Captain Larebton’s naval gun* sent three shell* among the guard, as it withdrawing from the fort on Bulwana Hill. Although, of course, anxious to ...

... eover, wnatever, and our men soon began fall all lOjnd. bt 11 rrcsod With bayonets trod, halting every 70 100 yards, and firing independently, and then nng again. got within Oil yards of their posmon when-dropped. was aw.ul sight, yet it was grand tee ...