... Erddig, for musketry instruction, the remainder have been kept at home for field move- ments. Each trooper has this year to fire ninety ronnda. instead of sixty as in previous trainings, the additional thirty rounds being for a special coarse, in order ...

... far from Four- teen Streams. We were in skirmishing order, when the Boers opened fire with |three big guns, we opened fire with our guns from right and then The rifle fire commenced from the Boers. By this it was getting very hot on both sides. We had ...

... slow pro- Ladysmith. The enemy held an P 698 j -urong position on Grobler's Kloof and ex :reni j r i3g e s. Severe artillery fire all day on the *■*? coye _ e & ft alow advance, bat the infantry ' l ?? iiiako the Boera who, when night fell, were i the ...

... facing the hill entrenched by tbe ?? fo.ee crossed .the Tugela on the | enemv'-i I. V fi_nk. The lioeri aid not respond. , The firing pi-tie- of men pulled across the river in thepou aud P S enemy, finding their position most uncotnfor._b!e. flad mto the ...

... Cross. Cannons fired, fireworks were displayed, and until three in the morning the display was kept np. About two o'clock some men pot into the old Castle, and in their zeal charged the old Russian cannon heavily with stones, &a., and fired it off The report ...

... tlie railway towards ?? v:.- .- The ridge waa found to be strongly . L,v iii. ?? but when a Kood artillery h id been fonnd the fire of all the guns wa. .3net.nu.ated c;i Bergendaal Farm, the kopjes of irbieh fortueti the left of the Boer position. The jji_ ...

... morning a fire broke oat at the extensive corn milla of M-^sara Joaeph Appleby and Sons, Blackburn. The lira brigade found that the automatic sprinklers had been set going by the heat, and supplemented by the efforts of the mill brigade had kept the fire under ...

... lately, raining moat of tha time. The canse of so much rain ii put down to the big gun firing, and I am of the same opinion, because we find tbat always after firing onr Navy gam, or the Boer guns on Nabalvrana we have a terrible lot daring the night and ...

... printera, iihevvb'' T ovk fire, and considerable damags .vttsdonc to this and other property, before the fi rimes were eztin^m V: i. It 1.- stated ?? mvor.t 200 r.orkpe - I 1 vi!- be ti.r'LroorariY- thrown out of employment by the fire-. Dr. Strachan, of Dollar ...

... morning, and we were within the firing line again. We got to within 1,200 yards before opening fire ; then we advanced another 200 or 3CO yards by rushes, and there we lay from morning till it went dark, chewing the dust, under fire, the sun burning our backs ...

... confessed that he arranged to make the attempt two days before for a joke. He did not seriously aim at the Prince, and he fired once only. By a small majority the Liverpool City Council reiected a scheme for tbe improvement of the famous St. George's ...

... worked DANGEROUSLY CLOSE. And then from tbe comparative quiet of the usual dropping lrfie fire, a ptrlecc pandemonium broke out. Two gun- jus-t behind UP opened fire with a roar, the p.m pom btarted its door-knocker hammer ; my company and another opened ...