Latest.
OPPOSING BULLER'S ADVANCE. - The Boers are fortifying a semii circle from Majuba to Pongwana. Six guns are visible. There are indications that General Buller is advancing (with a view of turning the Boer position at Laing's Nek) via the Buffalo River. SCHREINER. Premier Schreiner opposes thejoroposal to build a hall to perpenlfEe the names of the heroes who fall in the war. He predicts that the nation will eventually deplore the war as neither necessary nor inevitable. BOER DESERTION. Louis Koch, Free State Magistrate, has surrendered to the British. He has informed General Buller that
all the Harrismith and Vrede burghers have returned to their farms* V RHODESIA. Martial law has been proclaimed in Rhodesia. BEGBIE ACQUITTED. . William Begbie, arrested on sug- ■■■-, picion of causing the explv ion at an ammunition factory in Johannesburg, and charged with attempted murder, has been acquitted. BADEN-POWELL. The Premier has received a cable -from Major-General Baden-Powell, announcing the relief of Mafeking in which he says : — " I am most grateful for the invaluable assistance of the Queenslanders under Captain Kelly, who made a record march ; through Rhodesia to help us." DEATH OF SERGEANT BROOK. Sir Alfred Milner has cabled to the Governor that Sergeant J. A. 'Brock, died of enteric fever at Bloemfonteitt on May 25th. •
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19000529.2.9.2
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, 29 May 1900, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
212Latest. Manawatu Herald, 29 May 1900, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in