CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 24 April 1902, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

The Transvaal. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. The “ Telegraph’* ” Pretoria correspondent writes:—"lt is significant that the majority of the Boar delegates ordered clothes and groceries here for early delivery.” The Standard confirms the statement that the Boer leaders were allowed to meet Lords Kitchener and Milner for the purpose of discussing terms of surrender. Britaia insists on the surrender of arms, the acknowledgment of the sapremacy of the lawful Sovereign, though she is willing to consider the Boer views on minor points of settlement. The Standard'* Pretoria carrespoadeat says the tentative agreement at the basis of an assured peace was reached on the Boer initiation. The Boer leaders have gone to their respective headquarters, De Wet to Hsilbrou and Lucas Mayer and Mr Reitz to the Northern Transvaal. Arrangements have been made to enable the burghers to meet at different rendezvous on given dates to hear a clear statement of the British terms. Nothing in the nature of an armistice has been arranged, except on the dates of the meetings. It is possible that some Free Staters will prove recalcitrant, but it is expected the Transvaalors, almost to a man, will acquiesce in the wishes of the leaders.

The last fortnight’s severe losses will doubtless have a great effect in inducing a sensible view of the situation. The Standard’s representative at Kroonstad says General SchalkBurger (the Acting-President) and his colleagues have not recently been taking the slightest heed of Mr Kurger and his satellites in Europe, but, on the contrary, mention them in terms approaching contempt. SKIRMISHING IN CAPE COLONY. Lovat’s Scohts, operating in the Jamestown district, pursued Bezindeabout’s and Odendard’s commandoes, and captured all their pack mnles and supplies. THE SPIONKOP DESPATCHES. General Warren asks the Government to publish the whole ot the Spionkop documents in order to remove the aspersions oast on himself and his gallant subordinates by the portions already published. THE VICTORIA CROSS. Sergeant James Rogers, of the South African Constabulary, has been awarded th* Victoria Cross for successively rescuing an officer and several men under heavy fire at Thabanohu. SUPPLIES FOR THE ARMY. The War Office is inviting tenders isr the supply of preserved meat to be shipped to South Africa during May, June and July- The quantities are not specified. Tenders will be opened at noon on the 25th last. The War Office has ordered from New South Wales a hundred tons of jam, to be shipped by transport to South Africa in April and May, and has also accepted a tender for three hundred thousand pounds of corned mutton. DEATH OF A NEW ZEALANDER.

Corporal David Whitehead, of the Eighth New Zealand Regiment, who was injured in the Machavie railway disaster, is dead. LOSSES OF THE ENEMY. Lord Kitchener's weekly report to the War Office conoerning the enemy's losses is es follows:—Killed, 18; wounded, *9; prisoners, 335; surraadcred, 10. Lord Kitchener adds that the enemy la much scattered and reduced in Cape Colony. Of the total number mentioned in tbe report, Major-General Rochefort's column captured 73 in the Bloemhof district. A MINOR ENGAGEMENT. A detached portion of Colonel Colenbraoder’a force engaged a superior body of the enemy in difficult country near Haenerteberg, but held their ground. Six British were killed and seventeen wounded. Colenbrandec'e main force came in contact with the detached portion again. THE DRAYTON GRANGE. The Drayton Grange passed Wilson's Promontory. She reported all well. SALE OF FARMS. Farms belonging to A. Prinsloo, P. A. Venter, W. S. Smit, Hcrtzog, Letter, and other leaders of the Boers in Orange River Colony, have bsen sold, and realised good prices. The proceeds of the sale will be devoted to the maintenance of their families in the concentration camps. Latest. BELIEF SOLDIERS. A thousand Royal Engineers are sailing from England to relievo the men at the front. THE SPIONKOP DESPATCHES. The Right Hon. St. J. Broderick, Secretary for War, in the House of Commons, said the Government were not prepared to publish Sir Redvers Bullet’s and General Warren’s explanatory recriminatory statements regarding the despatches. CONCENTRATION CAMPS. The death rate at the concentration camp during March were fortyfive per thousand. UNSUCCESSFUL BOER ATTACK. The Boers in the western portion of Cape Colony surrounded and unsuccessfully attacked Ookief. British reinforcements arrived in time and relieved the garirison.