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Leeds Mercury

1881

... treat., Ministers.contended that by attacking the; Boers at a time when we were actually preparig .to negotiate ?? had brought these defeats.'u13o ourselves; and thby denied that the iact',~f:.the Boers ?? a successful resistance to a'small'party of our ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1881
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8810 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

Regiment, which only became Royal Fusilierg in 1881, At one is unique in using the old Imish war pipes. time

... Regiment, which only became Royal Fusilierg in 1881, At one is unique in using the old Imish war pipes. time while employed on the Isthmus of Darien, the regiment was practically wiped out by disease, only nine gurviving out of six hundred, The 6th Dragoons ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1904
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 885 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

OWNER OF CHEVET HALL

... service the Boer War 1881, and the Egyptian Campaign the following year, and has since been actively interested London Volunteer corps. married, 1895, Lady Kathleen Cnffe, the only child the fourth Earl Desart, and of the present Earl. Sir Thomas is large ...

Published: Monday 08 May 1911
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LATEST WILLS

... Major WILLIAM HARRISON, West Hall, Stalybridse, served in the Hour War, in 1881, as Volunteer with the 4th Dragoon Guards, in the War of 1882, and was present at the late Boer >Vai in South Africa; net personalty £83,520 £95,056 Mr. ARTHUR BUCKLEY, Tunstead ...

Published: Monday 18 August 1913
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 363 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

INDEPENDENCE OF THE TRANSVAAL

... we should light the boers. The first was that the Boers were brutes, the second that they were bankrupts, and t the third was that we were bound to vindicate the autho- U rity of the Queen. ( Shame, and hisses.) Per- haps the Boers were brutes. -They ...

Published: Tuesday 22 February 1881
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2039 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

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... Skipton, and another Mr. Thomas Henry Haggas, of Myrtle Grove, Keighley. He himself was born at Craddock, Cape Province, and after school near Windsor and sound commercial training in England returned to South Africa in 1881 just after the first Anglo-Boor ...

Published: Thursday 20 May 1926
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 425 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MILITARY NOTES. Ther

... C.B., G.C.I.E., during the memorable march to Kandahar, and in the several actions--medal and clasps and star. In the Boer war of 1881 he was taken prisoner. Has been attached to the Egyptian army since 1888, and served in command of a Soundanese battalion ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1890
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3574 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

PERSONAL NOTES

... of Inland Revenue. Sir Thomas Lipton, who has recently been elected a member the Aero Club, contemplates cross- Channel trip with the Hon. C. S. Rolls, and in the event the voyage being made, the balloon will followed by Sir Thomas’s steam yacht Erin. Sir ...

Published: Saturday 04 October 1902
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 760 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Controversy

... glad to sav he saw through that utter imposture, the simple-piknded Boer patriot, dear to the imagination British Radicals. . . . Tho Boer has hia strong points, but the political Boer is awful humbug, for ever crying out that he is being oppressed and ...

Published: Tuesday 24 November 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1007 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

ST. PIE REE. PEACE PROPOSALS. LEADERS ASSEMBLING. EXPLORING THE RUINS. THE HEATH-ZONE DESCRIBED. Lord Kitchener ..

... Kitchener, has arranged (so Reuter's Agency understands) with the Boer leaders that the conference which expected commence at Vereenigim? dav shall include the representatives of all the bodies of Boers throughout the two colonies. Governor S. F. M. Hodgson, at ...

Published: Thursday 15 May 1902
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1763 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS

... RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. 1881. Isal T Kn o 18S1. 1582 Joe. Ic Dec. s £ £ s Chicago . ?? .. Ma. 28 .. 0.442 .. 6,092 .. 350 ,. - Datch-Rhenish ?? - 31 .. 8,610 .. 0,035 .. ?? 1,076 Detroit . . , April 2 ., 4,600 ,. 4,7t0 .. - 2 200 Grand Trtuk of Canada ...

Published: Tuesday 05 April 1881
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1201 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries

... second medal. HIe was, brigade-major of cavalry at Aldershot 1869-70. garrison instructor at Alder-hot 1873, and in 1881 lie served in the Boer War I in command of the 14th Hus.esars; from April to October 18e82, he was deputy-assistartt and quartermarster ...