THE BOER WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 222, 26 September 1901, Page 2

THE BOER WAR.

34,000 MEN CANNOT EXPEL MAURAUDERS FROM CAPE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright London, Sept. 24. Owing to disaffection at the Cape, tho military authorities favor a general application of martial law. The Capo Government and Cape Chamber of Commerce oppose the proposal. Natives report that the Boers in the vicinity of Utrecht are retiring. General Rundel’s patrol, comprising a volunteer composite regiment, havo driven tho Boers back to Ukindi, south of Yrviand.

One thousand Boer prisoners havo left Durban for Bombay.

Joubert's nephew and two others escaped into the Bermuda bush, with the assistance of local sympathisers. Tlio bluejackets are searching for them. General French’s force of, thirty-four thousand men is considered insufficient to expel the marauders from the Cape, since ten thousand of them are utilised in guarding the railways and ten thousand are assisting the town guards in local defence. The magazine rides entrusted to the Cape town guards have been recalled aud replaced with Martinis, there being a suspicion that a percentage of the guards are disloyalists who are supplying tho Boers with arms and ammunition. KRUGER'S PLIGHT. FUNDS BECOMING >■ vUAUSTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Brussels, Sept. 25. Advices received here declare that Kruger's funds' are almost exhausted in paying numerous refugees in the servieo | of the so-called ' > >er Government, also for lecturers touring the Continent. Kruger has scarcely enough for himself and the most pressing exigencies of the Boer service. Some prominent Boers in Holland are almost destitute. RECAPTURE OF 15-POUNDER.

By Telegraph- Press Associatiou-Copyrigh London, Sept. 25. A ’’enter despatch states that Colonel Thorneyeroft, in Southern Orange, recaptured the 15-pounder taken on thu 10th, capturing 20 Boers. Ten thousand rounds of ammunition were also retakon. DEALING WITH THE ENEMY. NATAL RAIDERS RETURN EAST. By Telegraph—-Press Association—Copyrigh London, Sept. 25. Lord Kitchener reports that British reinforcements having worked into Natal the raiders ot Natal are returning East. The north lino of block houses at Potchefstroom meets another at Koppes Station, thence to Gatsrandvaal Valley and enclosed districts, to clear the enemy. The country westwards of Bloemfontein railways is clear. Columns havo crossed eastwards and joined Knox in pursuit of the enemy in Dewotsdorp district.

Mayburg and Fouchc are near Lady Grey.

General Smith-Dorien and Colonel Haig are pursuing Smuts, near Bedford. The Midlands are quiet-. Scheepers and Thcron are in the south, assiduously evading the columns. Lord Kitchener's weekly report shows 29 Boers killed, 1(1 wounded, and 350 captured ; 48 surrendered ; 245 ritlo and 178,000 rounds of ammunition, 55 waggons, 1000 horses, and 5500 cattle were captu red.