CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 26 April 1902, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

The Transvaal. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. Replying in the House of Commons to Mr K. Harmsworth, M.P. for Caithness, Mr Chamberlain said he was not aware, though he had made inquiries, that there was any law of the late Transvaal Republic requiring the peace delegates to submit the proposed terms of peace to the commandoes in the field. Lord Milner has returad to Capetown. RECENT FIGHTING. Captains Sir F. Fowler and A. T. Blackwood and three men were killed, and three officers and sixteen men were wounded in an engagement at Olivier’s farm, near Ficksburg, in the south-west of Orange Colony on the 20th inst. Six men are missing. SPIONKOP DESPATCHES. Mr Brodrick, Minister for War, stated in the House of Commons that the Government was not prepared to publish the explanatory and recriminatory statements of Sir Redvers Bailer and Sir Charles Warfen regarding Spionkop despatches. AN; ATTACK REPULSED. The Boers i.U Western Cape Colony surrounded and unsuccessfully attacked Ookiep. British reinforcements arrived and relieved the garrison. PROSPECTS OF. PEACE. Newspapers consider the fact that burghers are accompanying Mr Steyn and General DC la Key on visits to the western commandoes t 6 be a good augury. OPERATIONS IN THE EAST. General Bruce Hamilton’s seven columns have swepjt the country from Standerton,' in the Eastern Transvaal, in the direction of the Delagoa railway line. The resul is unknown, though it is feared that the Boers have escaped. MISCELLANEOUS. General Rochfort’s prisoners include General De la Key’s brother. A laager at Kroomaraal, in Orange Colony has been surprised. Five Boers’were killed and twenty captured. The troopship Templernore, with portion of the Australian Federal Contingent on board, has arrived at Durban.