2020: DAY 59
SMH p6
Exeter Place, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW
(P5) – LATE EDITION. HERALD OFFICE, 6.45 a.m. THE WAR / RELIEF OF MAFEKING OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED. BOERS OBJECTING TO SACRIFICE OF LIFE. LORD ROBERTS AWAITING SUPPLIES. LONDON, May 21.
4.30 a.m. THE RELIEF OF MAFEKING. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. LONDON, May 21. Major-General G. Barton, commanding a brigade in Lieutenant-General Sir A.Hunter's Division, has wired to Sir Alfred Milner from Taungs, on the railway line south of Kimberley reporting that Mafeking was relieved on Thursday.
SURRENDER OF PRISONERS AND OF ARMS, LONDON May 21
THE USE OF EXPANSIVE BULLETS. LONDON, May 21. Mr Smith, an engineer has informed Lord Roberts that while the Boers were besieging Ladysmith Commandant Erasmus, who was in charge of a Transvaal laager outside the town, sent to the Free State burghers who were aiding in the siege 12,000 soft-nosed bullets to be used in the Maxims.
DEMONSTRATIONS IN ADELAIDE. / A GROCER'S SHOP ATTACKED. ADELAIDE, Monday.“To-day the demonstration in honour of the relief of Mafeking was continued with unabated vigor, and gradually gathered in strength until towards evening the whole of Adelaide's residents appeared to be in the streets singing, shouting, or industriously waving Union Jacks and banners bearing patriotic mottoes and devices. “ Mid afternoon ‘a dense and thoroughly excited crowd discovered that a leading firm of grocers was not closed’ – the shop was attacked, all its glass broken.
FEDERATION./ DELEGATES ENTERTAINED BY LIBERALS AT CAMBRIDGE /.LONDON. May 21.
THANKSGIVING AND CELEBRATIONS LONDON May 20 Lord Mayor London attends Te Deum in St Pauls; members of the Stock Exchange sing “God save the Queen”. Inviting members of the Paris Bourse to listen to it through the telephone.
THE QUEEN SERENADED In honour of the relief of Mafeking, the Queen was serenaded at Windsor Castle by the boys from Eton
THE PUBLIC HOLIDAY / ARRANGEMENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT
HOLIDAY TRAIN ARRANGEMENTS
(p6) – REJOICINGS AT NEWCASTLE/ REJOICINGS IN QUEENSLAND / HEAVY REJOICINGS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA /CELEBRATIONS IN TASMANIA / INTENSE JOY AT LAUNCESTON / ENTHUSIASM IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA / MELBOURNE CELEBRATIONS, CONGRATULATORY CABLES
BUBONIC PLAGUE / INSPECTIONS IN THE GLEBE AREA – 2 cases 863 rats . City Garbage Carts - Mayor held competition to design a cart. Can't be used because existing contract requires another cart.
(P7) – THE FEDERAL BILL / TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD “ … Let the leaders be up and doing and quit themselves like men at this great crisis in Australian history. Let them hold meetings throughout the country, at which the electors may express their protests against any alteration of the bill, and let these protests be cabled to England, thus strengthening the spirited appeal of our bravely-fighting federal delegates. Now is the time for a true display of patriotism….”