THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 11 July 1901, Page 2

THE BOER WAR.

[BY ELECTRIC TBLESaiPH—OOP?BI(»HT.J

(FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

London, July 10. Dufloy, a Boer, escaped to Bermuda, and on landing from the steamer at New York was detained on the ground of being a pauper.

Schalkburger and Steyn have issued fresh proclamations promising eventual intervention of the Powers.

Duplessis, Minister of the Dutch Reformed Church at Lindley, implored the Moderator of the Synod of the Transvaal and Orange Biver churches to send mediators to Lord Kitchener and the Boer lead* ers.

Commandant Echeeper extorted money from the Standard Bank at Murraysburg. Received this day at 8 9 a m. London, July 10.

During the sitting of the Treason Courts in Cape Colony, fines to the amount of £20,000 were imposed' on rebels, and in Natal an -additional sum of £IB,OOO.

Received this day at 10 38 a m. London, Jnly 11. Lord Kitchener's despatches show that between Mirch and May 6eh the British captured 3.5 guns, including two Long Toms, one Creuzs, and one 4-7 inch gun, while 7,384 Boer belligerents were killed, wounded or captured during the last three months.

General Blood's three ooiumnsmarched from Middleburg to Springs. The Boers slipped between the enemy being gradually reduced to an irreconcilable nucleus, which will likely prove more troublesome than thousands ready to fight. Sennett Burleigh reports that the Eastern Transvaal is so bare that the Boers mnst surrender or go elsewhere. The woman are tired of the war and'are urging their husbands to surrender. Mesßrs Merrimans and Sauer, Afrikander Bond delegates sent to Englandi have returned to Capetown. There was no demonstration at the landing and they were allowed to pass unnoticed.