THE BOER WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 347, 22 February 1902, Page 2

THE BOER WAR.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

London, Feb. 20.

Colonel Gilbert Hamilton reports tha'. le inarched to Nigil on the 18th and cn ;agcd the Boers at Klippendam, whom he Ailed to dislodge.

Part of the 2nd Dragoon Guards have been captured. Major Fielden and Cap tain Ussher wore severely wounded. Two Dragoons were killed and six wounded. Forty-six were captured, and afterwards released. General Spens has brought to Ermolo 11 prisoners. Nineteen Boors have surrendered in the Transvaal, and 14 others surrendered on the Natal border.

Boers sentenced to penal servitude outside Africa are being sent to the Seychelles. A special gaol is being constructed for their accommodation. Twelve hundred ordinary prisoners of war will be sent to Antigua in tho middle of April. Major Trollope, of tho Army Ballooning Department, states that the capture of General Cronje’s force at Paardeburg was due to to a Cape hoy seeing from the bailoon, which prevented the artillery firing upon a dummy laager, when the Boers were hiding in the hod of the river.

The German pastor and the German agent of the Paarl, Capo Colony, have protested against the calumnies on the British. A rebel named Geldenhuis has been executed at Middlehurg on a charge of murdering natives.

Mr Rose Innes has resigned the Attorney-Generalship of Cape Colony. Mr Graham, Colonial Secretary, succeeds him, Mr Arthur Douglas, member for Grahamstown, becoming Colonial Sectary.

An intercepted message from Piet Yieljoin to Schalkburger urged him to do something to counteract the spirit of surrender rife in Eastern Transvaal.

Botha and Shalkburger are trying to arrange a meeting.

A CAPTURED JUDGE,

By Telegraph—Pres3 Association—Copyrigh London, Feb. 21.

A captured burgher named Morrces proved to bo Judge Kock, who presided at the trial which resulted in tho acquittal of the constable who shot dead Tom Jackson Edgar in his own house at Johannesburg in December, 189 S. Colonel Evans, of the Volunteer Composite Regiment, was killed during a smart engagement at Vryheid.

THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyrighi London, Fob. 21.

The Ladies’ Committeo report is a striking indication of the methods employed at the concentration camps. The report pays a high tribute to Sir A. Milner, It states that the mortality at tho camps is largely attributable to tho insanitary condition of tho country, and the causes within the control of tho refugees. It would ho impossible to disband tho camps, and bo highly impolitic to board out the refugees who, if

scattered, would be impossible to feed,

Wellington, last night,

The Governor has received the following cablegram from the Casualty Department, Capetown, giving additional names of New Zealanders dangerously ill of enteric fever at Charlestown :—Sixth Contingent : 3466 Harry Brown, 3504 Heley, 3376 William Horuig, 3688 Chas. Johnson. Seventh Contingent : 4072 John Considine (gun shot), 4293 Walter Hart, enteric. At Pietermaritzburg : 4616 A. Devin.