CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.
The Transvaal.
PRESIDENT KRUOER. RTILL
DETERMINED TO FIGHT.
In the course of an .interview with a •' Daily Telegraph" correspondent President Kruger declared that the ! ransvaalers wouid fight while five hundred burghers remained alive.
REPULSE OF A BOER ATTACK.
. News has been received that a Boet commando made a desperate attempt at midnight on Wednesday to retake Kicksburg, in Orauge River Co ony, on the Basutoland border, north of Ladybrand • fter hours of fierce fighting * the enemy were repulsed. ' . ■ . ,
CLERY AND HART.
The troop 3 under. LieutenantGeneral Sir l* rancis Clery aud MajorGeneral A. Fitzroy Harfc have junctioned at Vlakfontein; on the Johannesburg-Natal Railway, about twenty miles south-east of Heidel-
berg
C ' PTURED BRITI-HER3
Lieutenant Rundle and a patrol party of Carbineers have been captured by the enemy in tbe vicinity of Pretoria.
. Major M. W Bayley, a .New South Wales special olicer, has been captured while foraging near Krodnstad, on the „ maiq line . of .railway in Orange River ( olony.
TREATMENT. OP THE 6IGK.
.speaking in the House of Commons, the Hon A. J Halfour, First lord of the Treasury, announced that Professor A. I*. Church, Presi-' dent of the Royal College of* Physicians ; Professor John Daniel Cunningham, of Trinity < ollege, Dublin, and Lord Justice Eonier, had been appointed a Commission to inquire into the treatment of the sick ' and wounded in *-outh Africa
In deference to the general wish, however, Mr I'alfour promised.- .-to enlarge the membership, of the Commission to five REPLY TO COLONIAL COMPLAINT-. The Hon J. ( hamberlain, Secretary of :-tate for the Colonies, has informed the New Zealand Government that he regretted the temporary absence of hospital arrangements in - outh A frica, but amp c supplies are now available He has promised an inquiry into the colonial complaints with refereuce to the treatment of the sick and wounded With reference to the expense of hospital attendance, it is preferred that it should be an Imperial charge
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Manawatu Herald, 10 July 1900, Page 2
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321CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS. Manawatu Herald, 10 July 1900, Page 2
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