CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.
« The Transvaal. Two Boer officers, in disguise, were discovered spying into the Dumbers and equipment of the British artillery at Marilzbirg. The Boers are fortifying Yomate poort, a frontier station on the Delagoa Bay Railway line. A force of infantry, with drafts of garrison artillery baa started from Capetown for Kiinberley. Remark able precautions are being taken to ascertain whether the railway biidges or other portions of the railway l.ne have been tampered with. The " Daily Telegraph," atates
•he First Battalion (8h Foot) of the Liverpool Regiment, which is now in Natal, has been ordered to lining'Nek to protect the railway tunnel through which the trains pass from Nfltal into the IVannvaal. Great Britain has ordered a supply >f vt&egma and ambulances from Ohio fiims and is negotiating for ihe purchase of a thousand pack mules at Louisville.
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Manawatu Herald, 23 September 1899, Page 2
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140CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS. Manawatu Herald, 23 September 1899, Page 2
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