MISCELLANEOUS.

Manawatu Herald, 9 November 1899, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Three mor* battalions of B ltisfa militia art being embodied. The Boer Committee in Paria is being ehdclowea by the Fieoch police.

The majority of the Cape Dutch do no*, exhibit any active hostility to the British. 11 The Times," in discussing the position o! affairs now confronting the British troops en route to South Africa, urgei the despatch of another twenty thousand men to the scene of hostilities. The French Bed Cross Society is All despatching two ambulances to each of the opposing armies. Sir William MacOormac, Presidpnt of the Royal Gollpge of Surgeons, who recently offered his services as a member of General Sir R°dver<> Bnllpr'a medical staff, has sailed for South Africa. He was given a Ir a'tv *end °ff h 7 BOrne three hundrpd medical students. Speaking at a banquet in London last night, Field-Marshal Lord Wolselpy, C<unmander-in-Chief of s the army in England, said that the "# Boers had shown themselves to be ranch more powerful and numerous than waj anticipated. Npws has been received that; the British prisoner* at Pretoria are i being treated with great consideration. They are allowed a largt amount oil liberty, and are heard of as amusing th -mselves by playing football. Two more troopships, the Kildonan Castle and the Briton, have left Southampton* together for South Africa. There are four thousand troops on board. The troopship Rapidam, which left Liverpool last week, was caught in a hurricane off Holyhead, and two hundred horses were killed. The vessel has returned to Liverpool to refit. A proclamation ha* been issued by the Government of the Orange Free State announcing the anncxa* t.ion of the portion nf Natal to the south-east of thp Free Sate, around i the headwaters of the Togela river.