CONDENCED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 25 March 1902, Page 2

CONDENCED CABLEGRAMS.

Tha Transvaal.

CONDITION OF THE ENEMY. The irreconcilable Boers in the Western Transvaal have plenty of arms, ammunition, transport and stock, and are but little hampered by blockhouses. Lord Kitchener has ordered Major Woolls Sampson to organise an Intelligence Corps there.

None of the commandoes in the Eastern Transvaal exceed 300 men. , General Botha’s influence is steadily declining. A BOER ENVOY IN AMERICA. Mr Wessels, the Boer delegate, has asked President Roosevelt to appoint a Commission of army officers to review the conduct of the war in South Africa. Mr Bryan, at the instance of a caucus ot democrats of the House of Representatives, has adopted strong pro-Boer resolutions. Mr Bryan hopes to make the Boer cause a main issue at the Congressional elections in the autumn. MINISTERS ON THE STRUGGLE. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Chamberlain estimated that 9000 Boers were still iii the field. The few recruits to the Boer ranks were now obtained from Cape Colony." A large proportion of the prisoners in Ceylon, India and St. Helena were eager to return to peaceful avocations. This he regarded as a good augury for the future. Mr Brodrick, Secretary for War, said great progress had been made with the war during the last three months. SLANDERS ON THE ARMY. Queen Alexandra, replying to an appeal from the wojnen of Munich to use her influence to stop the immoral, cruel and , shameful conduct of the British troops in South Africa, wrote that the memorial was based on a complete misunderstanding of the facts. She regretted that a meeting of Munich women had lent, an ear to groundless slanders against a friendly nation. DE WET AND DE LA REY.

Boer advices state that General De Wet and Da la Rey are trying to join forces in the vicinity of Parys, oh thb Vaal river, forty-five miles east of Klerksdorp. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS. The Queensland Premier (Hon. R. Philp) has suggested to Mr Barton that Queensland should be allowed to send a whole battalion of five hundred ment to the Australian Contingent, the State haying a much larger proportion of btlshirien than the other. He considers there would be no difficulty in raising the number. The announcement that the Australian Commonwealth is sending another contingent to the- front has been received with the greatest satisfaction. MISCELLANEOUS, The petition formulated by the Progressive members df the Cape Parliament for suspension qf the Cape Constitution asks the Imperial Parliament to pass a Bill of Indemnity covering martial law proceedings and unauthorised expenditure; also to fix the colony’s future Parliamentary representation. National Burgher Scouts at Standeeton have captured Williams, a notorious train-wrecker. Latest. ADVANTAGES OP BLOCKHOUSES. The fact of blockhouses being in a favourable position checked fifty assailants on a convoy between Koornspruit and Frankfort. The mounted troops arrived shortly after and repelled the attack. APPRECIATION OP NEW ZEALAND. Lord Onslow, speaking at Bath, said New Zealand sent the Tenth Contingent not in the first glamor of patriotic enthusiasm, but when the task became dull, tiresome and monotonous.