... the hills, and three men were wounded. The Boers attempted to getto the rear of the train, but the cavalry were promptly detrained and caused the enemy to retire. The wounded have been brought in here. The Boers apparently consisted of a party which had ...

... intelligence was received that the Boers had invaded Natal with the intention of resisting the approach of a British force to the Transvaal. No news had been received from the beleaguered detachments in the Transvaal. The Boers who crossed the Natal border ...

... this position, although the Boers had rushed to arnis in their discontent with the terms of the annexation settlement; and, in consequence, Sir George Colley had been compelled to telegraph to the Colonial Office that the Boers, under the command' of their ...

... squadron 5th Dragoons charged througlh the retreating Boers three tilmes in the darlk and did ccnsiderable' execution. r ] We captured Boer camp, with tents, waggons, and horses; also two guns. The Boer losscs are very considerable. including a number of ...

... BOER AMBITIONS. THE ORIGINAL PROPAGANDA OF THE AFRIKANDEE BOND. A correspondent in Cape Colony has sueoeded in unearthing the text. (inthe 7oltk staal) of the original prbpaganda. of the .Afrikander Bond. It consists in reality of a number of leading ...

... straight towarda the Boers' position at Laing's Neck, 'When day broke,'diocovering this, he liept close ii a donga to prevent his being observed, and e,, towards night again moyed in the direction ot our-camp, as watching the Boer vedettes and seiziag ...

... 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 ...

... after a while, the Boers became th 0cdiscositented and demanded their country back tb Lagain, but were refused, and from that re- tb I- fusal sprang all the subsequent harvest of yr rtrouble, dating in 1881 from Amajuba, when tb d the Boers got their country ...

... THE HISTORY OF 1881. _ _ _ I Lights and shadows mingled and alternated in the past year as they have done in every year since mankind ap- peared on the face of the earth. The two events which caused the greatest sensation throughout the world, and which ...

... which it comprises he',r dates between the 30th of July, 1880, and the 29th January, 1881. They h-tva reference to the proceedings which led to the rising of the Boers, and the events which have followed. From them it appears that President Brand, of the ...

... Jenkins, the Mayor and Mayoress of Swansea (Mr and Mrs Aeron Thomas), Sir John Jackson (the contractor), and the following mem- bers and officials of the Harbour Trust:—Messrs Griffith Thomas, A. Mason, E. Strick, T. Fre- man, F. Bradford, Howel Watkins ...

... and these were n of a very alarie'ist, character. The Boers are still massing near the Nat.l ?? Symons' phrase is, IThey are closilg il on all sidos-but so far no collision has occurred. A Boer council of war has been held at Velksrust, and as 01o0 ...