THE BOER WAR.
By Telegraph—Press Assooiation—Copyright London, April 2.
Colonel Colenbrander has relieved Fort Edward, in Speloken district, and captured Beyers' waggons. Colonel Grenfell's recent captures included addresses welcoming Steyn and DeWet, signed by De la Rev and Liebenberg, apostrophising Steyn as leader and counsellor whose deeds and words encouraged and strengthened tho burghers, and praying that he may become the head of a United South Africa.
A number of soldiers who were injured in the Barberton railway accident have since died. The guard saved the civilians’ carriage attached to the train by sticking to the brake. The driver and fireman were killed. The boiler burst.
Paris, April 3.
The Durban correspondent of Le Temps declares that heaps of presorved meats and other viands wore left exposed in the docks for months, until fermentation set in and compelled them to be thrown into the sea. Hay was similarly neglected, and there were instances of gross carelessness elsewhere.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 382, 5 April 1902, Page 2
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