THE BOER WAR.
[by electric telegraph—copyright.]
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
Heavy Sentences on Rebels
Received this day at .10 43 a.m. London, March 5. Commandant Van Eccnda with 500 men is laagered at Eiepkloof near Colesberg. The Boers have occupied Pearston 40 miles southeast of Graaffreneifc. A number of rebels have received three years each. A farmer was fined £2OO or two years imprisonment for harboring the rebels. Bennett Burleigh says that the second Australian contingents while willing to stay until retained arc asking that the date of return should bo fixed.
Concerning Hey/ Zealanders.
Wellington, This Day,
The Premier is advised that nurse Dora Pei ter of Christchurch, who is ill at Pretoria, is receiving every attention. Private Saxby is in Natal awaiting a transport to New Zealand. Private Yon Dadclezen of Napier—concerning whom enquiries were made from New Zealand — is quite well and when last heard of was then with his regiment.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 March 1901, Page 3
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153THE BOER WAR. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 March 1901, Page 3
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