SOUTH AFRICA.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 450, 21 June 1902, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICA.

CASUALTIES TO NEW ZEALANDERS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

Ijoudon, Juue 19. Six hundred and ninety Boers, mostly lebels, have surrendered in Calvinia district. The total number of surrenderers is now 18,400. London, June 20. The Boets aro besieging the stores at Bloemfontein, exchanging ragged garments for new clothes. Sir A. Milner will be installed Governor of the Transvaal to-morrow. General French, at Middlosburg, thanked the inhabitants, especially tho Dutch, for their loyalty. Ho hoped that even rebels would bo met half-way in a friendly spirit.

Private Robert Laing, of tho Ninth New Zealand Mountcds, has died at Elandsfontein of dysentery. There are 5800 surrenderors at Orange. Tho Boers and British aro everywhere fraternizing cordially. The burghers generally aro taking the oath. Surrenderers under the terms of peace aro required to individually subscribe to tho conditions.

General Do Wet, in a circular to tho adjutants, states: “ That you, I, and every burgher can win tho heart of tho new Government by our future conduct I am not in the least doubtful.”

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Wellington, last night. The Governor has been advised as follows from South Africa: Robert Laing, of Balclutha, died of dysentery at Elandsfontein on Juno 17 ; H. E. Colleson, of Rakaia, accidentally killed at Fortbny, June 16. The following are dangerously ill of enteric : G. Atkinson, Wairoa South; Sergeant P. Campbol), Christchurch ; E. Baker, Waikato; B. Gooding, Ngairo, Taranaki; and C. Cox, of Oamaru. Win. Whetter, of Waikouaiti. is ill of dysentery. P. Leo, of Woodlands, Southland, and W. Grant, Middlemarch, Otago, aro both suffering from injuries. The s.s. Ruapehu left Capetown on June loth for Welliugton with Lieutenants Simpson, Duncan, and Fraser, Surgeon-Captain Deck, fourteen mon of various contingents, and two men ot tho Imperial Light Horse.