THE BOER WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 408, 6 May 1902, Page 2

THE BOER WAR.

By Telegraph—Tress Association—Copyright London, May 4. Lord Selborne, in eulogising the Transport Department, said a million and a quarter tons of stores, exclusive of forage, four hundred thousand remounts, and half a million men, were conveyed to the Cape without loss of life owing to any fault. Six hundred British ships had been employed. The advance of the Namaqualand column lias practicully relieved Yokiep. The trial of Peter Do Wot, a member of tbo Cape Assembly, is proceeding at Aliwal North. Mrs Steyn’s letter to the prisoner promised the colonists joining the Republic burghership to have nativo assistance during harvesting. A party of khaki-clad rebels at Twefonteiu murdered Lieutenant Murray, who approached under the impression that they were British.

LONDON, May 5. Pieter DeWet has been acquitted. An epidemic of redwater has destroyed whole herds very suddenly al Rhodesia.

Smuts’ Transvaalers destroyed sections of the railway in the west. They demanded the surrender of Ookiep oil the 1-lth April. Colonel Skelton, who had three weeks’ provisions for six thousand souls, brought in the Misklip and Nababeep garrisons, but the Town Guard of Concordia refused to join. It is reported that they surrendered without resistance-

The garrison at Springfontein made a gallant fight. They surrendered in face of numbers who were ready to dynamite the blockhouses. Elsewhere several in the blockhouses were killed by dynamite thrown on the roof*