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Manawatu Herald, 8 March 1900, Page 2

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LADYSMITH.

The Ladysmith relief column are resting at ' Sandspruit, westward of the town. -- :- HONORING GENERAL WHITE,

General Buller's army made a triumphant march past Genera) White, the Dublin Fusiliers leading.

The relief of Ladyamith .post five thousand officers and men, out of an 1 army of twenty-five thousand. A DISLOYAL MOVE. The Afrikander Bond proposes to send a deputation to Canada/and Australia to promote the maintenance of the Transvaal and EVee State Republic's independence. BRITISH RESERYp/TTiEET. The mobilisation <rf ♦ powerful British reserve fleet hM commenced at Torquay. ■ THE DORDRECHT BATTLE. The Boers fought stubbornly ti Dordrecht. The British casualties : totalled 80. STOBMBEBG. Lieut.-General CWjta<usjf| entered B tormberg after it was Evacuated by the Boers. - „ . :! THE BOEfc POSITION. A reconnaissance by the New South^ Wales Lancers and Inniskillings disc 1 closed the fact that the Boers were four miles from Asfontein, occupying kopjes on both sides of the Modder. The position has a length of ten miles and is strongly entrenohed, but easily turned. THE BASUTOS. The B&sutos are wildly jubilant over the British victories. WAR BUDGET. Although it is considered unlikely the Budget proposals wHTUe seriously opposed, The Times, Standard, and Morning Post expresjß)*^plt that Government has not- widened the basis of taxation, instead of persisting in the present inequalities. OUR SECOND CONTINGENT. The Waiwera's contingent of New Zealanders (the second contingent) is leaving for the front. - ,