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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 7, 9 January 1901, Page 2

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THE INVADERS v

MA lAL LAW PROCLAMED,

PLOT TO DESTROY CAPETOWN waterworks.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.

London,Jan. 8

The members of the Liverpool Regiment, recently captured at Helvetia, have been released.

The invaders of Cape Colony havef reached Calvinia, 350 miles north o Capetown. Others are south and east of Richmond.

Martial law has been proclaimed at Calvinia, Ricquetberg, Cran william, Tulbagh, Paarl, and Stetlenbosch. Owing to the discovery of a plot, to destroy the Capetown waterworks, the mountain watershed is strongly guarded.

A gunboat is watching Raise Bay, 25 miles south of Table Bay. A New Zealander, Gunner J. Withers, has died of enteric fever at Johannesburg. Malan, editor of the Africander organ, “ Onsland,” has been arrested and released on bail of £SOO on a charge of publishing a defamatory seditious article, attacking Major-Gen. French and his troops. A South Australian bushman, Bugler Davis, has died of enteric fever at Johannesburg. The British Workmen’s Society re port that 100,000 men have been en rolled since the Cape Government’s appeal to loyalists to assist in expelling the invaders. '

RETURNING COLONIAL CON . TINGENTS. ARRIVAL AT SYDNEY. AN ENTHUSIASTIC DEMONSTRATION. NEW ZEALANDERS AND OUR PREMIER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, yesterday. The participation of a large number of visiting soldiers gave an Imperial ring to the welcome to the Orient’s returned soldiers. Major - General French and Colonel Pole-Penton (New Zealand) boarded the steamer on arrival and welcomed the soldiers. The Hon. Mr Seddon was amongst the large crowd on the wharf. A guard of honor was provided by the Imperial Fusilier regiments, while the colonials were escorted by detachments of the local forces, and the Indian contingent, New South. Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand were represented in the returned South African troops. The Queensland Bieadquarters Band marched at the head of the contingent to the barracks, enthusiastic crowds lining the street, the men being formed up on the lawn and welcomed. There was a brilliant assemblage,, including the Earl of Hopetoun, Sir W. Lyne, Hon. E. Barton, Hon. R. J. Seddon, Sir J. Forrest, . and other distinguished visitors.

Sir Vm. Lyne congratulated the men upon having d,one their duty gloriously, and stated it was intended to erect a monument to those who had fallen as well as look well after those they had left behind. The Australians and New Zealanders were looked upon as being amongst the finest and best soldiers sent to the war.

The Hon. Mr Seddon gave the boys from the front a hearty welcome. They had covered themselves with laurels, and worthily upheld the race from which they had sprung. Many people contended that it was almost necessary in the case of emergency to have a permanent paid force for the defence of the colonies, yet these men who had been taken from the volunteer forces of the colonies had been shoulder to shoulder with the besttrained men of the Empire, and worthily sustained the best traditions of the British Army. They had received the greatest praise for the noble services they had performed, and for the future there could be no distinction whatever in the forces of the Empire. They had helped to wipe out the stain of our forces at Majubar Hill, and they not only had behaved as soldiers, but as gentlemen. The country should do its duty to the memory of those who had fallen and to those they left behind.

Sir John Forrest said they wen away with the honor of Australia in their keeping, and they returned wit the honor unsullied.

Mr Barton welcomed the troops on behalf of the United Australian Commonwealth, which would do its duty to those who had fallen and those left behind.

In response to Mr Seddon’s call, three British cheers were given and returned by the soldiers. Then followed cheers for Lord and Lady Hopetoun. - Replying, Lord Hopetoun said: “All of us in the Old Land who read of your doings in South Africa felt proud of our kinsmen beyond the sea, and I am proud to be bere to welcome you.” (Cheers').