THE BOER WAR.
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Received this day, at 8 42 a.m. London, January 17. Four thousand horses have hccu commandeered at Harrismith and two thousand at Btandcrton for the purpose of remounting British irregulars. The raiders possess splendid maps of Cape Colony, provided by Steyn lie Coro the outbreak of war.
Captain Berry, of the Queensland Bushmen, and Lieut. Lcwin, New Zealand Rough Riders, have been discharged from the hospital and have resumed duty. The following Westralhms were wounded while lighting at Rlipplaat: Captain Oliver, Privates Campbell and Flynn. Received this day at 8 40 a.m. ; While a hundred Boers -were convoying forage through to Giringspoort they were ambushed by a detachment of the recently formed Cape cycle_ corps, who were entrenched upon a kopje. The cyclists killed seventeen. All the male inhabitants of Grasfontein have been arrested on a charge of assisting the invaders. Three Boers were killed and 20 wounded in attempting to out the railway bank at a station near Johannesburg.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 February 1901, Page 3
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170THE BOER WAR. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 February 1901, Page 3
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