The Boer War.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 49, 27 February 1901, Page 2

The Boer War.

THE ENEMY ACTIVE,

FIVE HUNDRED BOERS ATTACK A RAILWAY STATION.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

London, Feb. 25

Four hundred Boers ou Saturday attacked Fish River Railway Station, 20 miles north of Cradock. The garrison, consisting of 40 men of the Lancaster Regiment and a few Capo Police, made a gallant defence until an armored train arrived with assistance. Tho Boers lost sixteen killed and wounded.

Lord Kitchener is in the Eastern Transvaal. Lord Roborts is giving private owners of horses in Great Britain and the colonies the same chance as dealers in selling to tho War Office.

CLOSING IN ON THE BOERS.

WILL THEY SWIM FOR IT ?

A CRUSHING BLOW TO BOTHA

By Tolegraph— Press Association— Copyright London, Fob. 26. Mr Bennett Burleigh states that tho Orange River is still flooded. The Boers are trekking east and north.,

British columns, forming a wide cordon from the Orange Rivor station to Norval’s Pont, are closing in. The only means of escape loft tho Boers is swimming the rivers. Do Wet and Steyn are close to Potrusville.

Prisoners admit that Botha received a crushing blow. He, with two thousand men, is retreating in tho direction of Komati Poort.

ENROLLING 20,000 CIVILIANS

AT THE CAPE.

A THOUSAND YEOMANRY OFF TO THE CAPE.

Per Press Association. Telegraph. Copyright London, Feb. 26.

Twenty thousand civilian guards have been enrolled at Cape Colony.

Tho steamer Tongariro conveys a thousand Yeomanry to the Capo. Lieutenant Wilford Campbell Wilson, of the Imperial Yeomanry, has died of wounds at Haatsbeestfontein.

NINETY-NINE COURTS OF ENQUIRY.

TEN OFFICERS SEVERELY

PUNISHED,

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

Received i a.m,

London, Feb, 26,

In tho House of Commons Mr St. John Broderick stated that ninotynine courts of enquiry had been held regarding twenty instances of British surrenders in South Africa, resulting in the dismissal, or placing on halfpay, of ten officers, and inflicting penalties on others Cases involving court martials will be made public. ANOTHER NEW ZEALANDER DEAD. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Feb. 26. Private A. Harrison, of tho .Now Zealand Mounted Corps, has died of enteric fever at Naauwpoort. Wellington, Fob. 2G. Mr J. B. Heywood, of the Treasury, has been informed that his son, Trooper Heywood, of the Second Contingent, who was wounded at Wolverhuilen, is progressing favorably. THE NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENTS. DEATH OF TROOPER FARRELL. [By Telegraph—Press Association.] Wellington, last night. Tho Premior is advised from Albany by the captain of tho steamer Chicago of the death from pneumonia of Trooper J. Farrell, at sea. Deceased hailed from Kihikihi, Auckland. A cablegram to tho Government from Capetown states that Sergeant E. Fitzgerald, of the Second Contingent, Wellington, and Trooper Dorn, Third Contingent, Oxford, are progressing favorably in the hospital at Pretoria.