THE BOER WAR.
[by v.ectrio telegraph—copyright.] [Pee Peesb Association.] Ueaeived this day at 9 10 a m. London, May 22. Two hundred and fifty homelese childsen, who were allowed to accompany the Boer prisoners to Ceylon, attend the Dutch school at Kandry. The children are perfectly happy. Fiv« hundred Boers landed at Bombay bound for Ashmedagar. Seobell continuing the pursuit captured four thousand rounds of ammunition.
Lieutenant-Colonel Porter's Instructions.
Dunedin, May 18. A special to tho "Star" from Gisbbrne stitos that there has been gome misapprehension as to the terms nnder which. Lieu-tenant-Colonel Porter went to Africa with the Seventh Contingent. It now appears hia instructions were to go straight to the front to relieve the Fourth and Fifth Contingents, and take command of the whole I of ine New Zealanders,using his influence with Lord Kitchener to permit the men I from this colony to keep together.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 May 1901, Page 3
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147THE BOER WAR. Greymouth Evening Star, 24 May 1901, Page 3
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