CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 22 March 1902, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

The Transvaal. LORD KITCHENER. Lord Kitchener states that there are already sufficient troops in the west ot the Transvaal to deal effectually with the situation. AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE. General Bruce Hamilton surprised a commando of 156 men at Ngothi Basin, killing four, capturing six and wounding seventeen. Among those who were not wounded is General Cherry Emmett, General Botha’s brother-in-law, whom Lord Kitchener describes as an important leader, ' LOSSES OF THE ENEMY. Lord Kitchener’s weekly report shows the following Boer losses Killed, 11: wounded, 7; captured, 158; surrendered, 126. The Standard is responsible for the reported admission of 300 casualties (though only eleven dead were seen) by the Boers at Tweebosch. LORD METHUEN. Lord Methuen is progressing satistactorily. MR KRUGER’S DELUSIONS; The newspaper “ Le Matin ” published a remarkable statement that the ex- President still reckons upon direct divine, intervention on behalf of the Boers, who are God’s elect. It is impossible, he says, to surrender

liberty without repudiating God and meriting His maledictions. He prays God to dispel the blindness of the English. AUSTRALIAN FORCES. In the House of Representatives, Mr Barton announced that he had re-ceived-from the Imperial Government a comttumication intimating that another Commonwealth Contingent two thousand strong would be gratefully accepted. Mr Barton intimated that it was the intention of the Government to comply with the request. MISCELLANEOUS. Lord Methuen’s temperature is normal. He is suffering no pain. General Bruce Hamilton’s success is due to retrograde and circuitous marching, and to ridiug very lightly. The capture of General Emmett was by National Burgher Scouts. The mortality in the concentration camps during the month of February was only one-third of the January rate. The strike in the Durban railway shops has been settled. The Government is investigating the strikers’ grievances. Renter's Agency states that last week’s drive west resulted in the capture of 127 prisoners. Columns are now in touch with General De Wet and Mr Steyn in the Hoopstad district, in the north-west of Orange River Colony, eighty-five miles, west of Kroonstad.

General Emmett, who was captured by General Bruce Hamilton, declares that it is impossible to starve the Boers. They must all be captured.

Latest. CIVIL RULE IN PRETORIA. Owing to the extension of civil rule, the military governorship of Pretoria has lapsed. A DUTCH AMBULANCE. Dr Kuyper, the Netherlands Pre* mier, has asked Great Britain’s per* mission to send an ambulance and several physicians to the Boers. SMALLPOX ON A TRANSPORT. The transport with the Canadian contingent aboard has been quarantined at Durban, with six oases of smallpox aboard. WINTER QUARTERS. Twenty-nine Boers northwards of Balmoral, owing to the approach of winter, surrendered on Saturday. AMMUNITION FOR THE BOERS. A consignment of ammunition, about to be shipped to Antwerp, supposed to be for the Boers, exploded. During a fire oh the Phoenix steamship pier at Hoboken, New York, a quantity of rifles were unearthed from the ruins.