THE BOER WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 326, 29 January 1902, Page 2

THE BOER WAR.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Jan. 27.

De Wet’s horses are lu a bad condition. The continual harassing by tbe British compels him to be constantly on the move. Snyumii, when taken, had a dynamito charge, with which he intended tooxplodo the Nyistroom railway.

A party of intelligence agents, while searching for the notorious traitor, trainwrecker, and Guardsman, Jack Hinton, orought about a skirmish which resulted in the capture of Viljoen and his two aides. Hinton’s whereabouts were not discovered. A trooper deserting from Nesbitt’s Horse was captured and shot.

All the Natal rebels will in future he tried hv court-martial instead of by special Civil Court.

Three hundred prisoners at St Ilolcna, including a number of large landowners, have volunteered for military service in South Africa. Fully a thousand would gladly serve. -Notwithstanding Nationalist denunciations, army recruiting in Ireland has increased 12 per cent, during the year, while the militia increased S per cent. Several shipments of Australian horses have reached South Africa in very poor condition. The Argentine horses arrived in a much better state.