THE WAR.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222045, 3 February 1900, Page 3

THE WAR.

BOERS AT STORMBERG. CAPE FARMERS JOINING THE BRITISH. PULLER HOLDS THE TUGELA DRIFTS. MO*E STRINGENT REGULATIONS AT DEL AGO A BAY. ■■ Capetown, February 1. The Boers are constructing a fort at Stormberg. ... . Farmers at Thebitis are joining the colonial force. General Kelly-Kenny has rebuilt the railway bridge which the Boers had destroyed. , A British force, with artillery, has ' occupied Prieska’s drift on the Orange River without opposition. . General Buller holds various drifts across the Tegula. |London, Febniary 1. H Owing to British pressure the Por* * hi2 - uese°have imposed more s'riugeut regulations re admitting foreigners inro Lorenzo Marquez. THE AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY • TO BE TRANSFORMED INTO MOUNTED RIFLES. HEAVY BOMBARDMENT OF KIMBERLEY. NEWS FROM MAFEIvING. Cafe-town, February I. In response to enquiries made at EKtcourt, Colonel Hood, in command of the Australians, offered to transform }.iiss£ve companies into mounted infantry. The British CommandermCilief has accepteddhe offer. The B ers have commandeered GUO Britishers at Barkley East. A thousand shells were thrown in o Kimberley during the last three days. The population largely reside underground. Mafeking reports ‘ All well Co : onel Baden-P/well urges the - British not to attempt to relievo him Jest the besiegers become mot e active f lscwh ri re