THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 17 July 1901, Page 4

THE BOER WAR.

[by bleoteio telegraph—copyright.] [Per Press Association.] London, July 10. • Ten Transvaal mining companies sued the allied Marine Assurance Company for £323,950 worth of gold commandered by Kruger. Justice Phillimore held that forciblo seizure was not covered by the policy. Featherston Haugh's column returned to Mafeking with 60 prisoners and 2000 • cattle. The Hon. Mr. Brodrick in the House of Commons said that Kitchener considered it useless to communicate with \ the Boer leader relative to the killing of the wounded, since he had no control over the men. He had, however, sent on the depositions taken on the subject to Commandant Do la Key. Privates J. Geddis and J. Baker (New Zealand Mounted-) were severely wounded at Grasdale and Vandersland respectively. , Lord Kitchener reports that since the Bth32 Boers were killed and 4 wounded, 307 prisoners taken, 140 surrendered, besides 218 rifles, 15,070 rounds of ammunition' 515 wagons, 4 825 horses and many cattle. The Daily Mail states that Lord Kitchener proposes to send home 70,000 militia, the Guards, the Indian troops, ten line battalions, and utilise 50,000 specially equipped mounteds to untiringly hunt, down the Boers. Capetown, July 16.

Sir Chas Sprigg considers that it was a grave error not to summon Parliament.

Ho states that he intsnded to convene at the end of the year a customs conference for the whole of South Africa to discuss the establishment of a united tariff.

Ouido, in the Daily Press, pleads for the cause of Olive Schreiner, who is represented as imprisoned in a hut surrounded by a wire fence and guirded sentinels. ■ Mrs Schalkburger has been taken to Pretoria.

Lord Raglan, the under-Seoretary of War, states that the Government are sending a committee of ladies to the refugee camps to report on the condition. Eighteen of Scobell's prisoners have been sent to Graffreiact to be court martialled. .

New York, July 16,

Two thousand three hundred horses left New Orleans for South Africa. Large purchases of mules were also made.