THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 January 1901, Page 4

THE BOER WAR.

[by electric telegraph—copyright.] (per press association.) London, January 8. The members of tho Liverpool Regiment recently captured at Helvetia have been released. The invaders of Cape Colony have reached Calviuia, some 20 miles north of Capetown. The others are south and oast of Richmond. Martial law has been proclaimed a* Calvinia, Picquetberg, Clan William, Tulbagh, PaarJ, and Stellenbosch. Owing 10 th 3 discovery of a plot to destroy the Capetown water-works, the Table Mountain watershed is strongly guarded. A gunboat is watching False Bay, 25 miles south of Table Bay. A New Zealandsr, Gunner Withersdied of enteric at Johnnesburg, Malan, editor of the Africander organ Ons Land has been arrested and released on bail (£500) on a charge of publishing a defamatory and seditious article attacking Major-Soneral French and his men. South Australian Bushmen Bugler Davis died of entoric at Johnnesburg. The British Workmen's Society reports that 100,000 men have been enrolled since the Cape Government's appeal to the loyalists to assist in repelling tho invaders.