THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 May 1901, Page 3

THE BOER WAR.

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Botha again lies to the Boers. The Comet his sign of Triumphal Peace. Beceived this day at 8 54 a.m. London, May 30, Major-General King occupied Carolina on the 17th. Botha has ordered the Boers to retire and hide until the British have passed. Botha declared to his burghers that the British were at war with Buiaia ; that the plague was destroying British soldiers, and that the rest were departing homewards. Botha admitted that ho had thought ol making peace but was thankful ho had rejected the terms offered by Lord Kitchener ; ho also declared that the appearance of a white comet was the sign for early peace with independence for the Boers. Beceived this day at 9 13 a m. London, May 20.

The latest news of Delarey is that he is with five hundred followers, _ a fifteen pounder, a pom-pom and maxim in the Klerksdorp district.

A patrol of Yeomanry and New Zealanders at Zeerust surprised a Boer outpost at midnight and killed three and wounded four. The attackers came off scathless.

London, May 20.

The King has become the patron of a movement for the erection of the eastern portion of the new cathedral of Capetown as a memorial to those who had fallen in the war.

London, May 20, Gorringe is severly harassing Fouche near Aluvial North.

Creive killed three hundred horses and captured 124, weakening the enemy’s nobility.

Karri Davies of a Baud syndicate, is promoting a second trunk line from Durban in Natal to Johannesburg costing seven millions.

Butler a Quarter-Master Sergt of the army service corps ordered to South Africa killed five of his children and wounded the sixth at Woolwich.

Received this day at 9 40 a m.

London, May 20.

The exolosion of a mine derailed an armoured train proceeding Southward from America siding in Kroonatadt district. Killing Major Heath of the South Lancashire regiment.