THE WAR.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222051, 15 February 1900, Page 2

THE WAR.

LADYSMITH ABLE TO HOLD OUT FOR WEEKS. LIEUT. F. G. FAIL KILLED AT KOODOOSBERG. GALLANT RESCUE OF A MAXIM GUN BY YILJOjp. COLONIAL CASUALTIES. THE BUSHMEN’S FUND, ffk London, February 12. Ladysmith has sent a reassuring heliogram that the garrison is able to hold out for weeks yet. Lieutenant F. G. Fail, of the- -Black Watch, a well known golfer, is amongst the killed at Koodoosberg. It is estimated that the Boers lost 100there.

At Yaalkranfz the British were, about to seize a Maxira-Yickers gun r when Commandant Yiljoen, a Boer officer, with a team of horses,, splendidly rescued the weapon, almost under the eyes of the .British, and amid lyddite shelling. Sydney, February 13, Lieutenant-ColoneL Onslow has resigned second command of the Bushmen’s Con;ingent, owing to receivingan appointment with Lieut.-General Tucker, in command of the seventh division in South Africa..

Ottawa, February 12. Major-General Hutton, commandant: of Canada, has been ordered to South Africa.

London, Febr tfcry 13. The casualties of the Westralian. Mounted Infantry, at Slingersfontein, on Friday were • Killed,. TrooperConway; wounded dangerously, Sergeant Hensmann; severely, Trooper France ; slightly, Troopers Ansell and Bird.

The missing Tasmanians, are •. Privates Hynes, Button,Gilham, Hutton, and Brothers. ; The Australians’ Bushmen’samounts to over £ll,ooo,.and the New Zealand fund to £1034. > Messrs Fred. Duncan and Purvis: Russell have given £IOO each to the; New Zealand Bushmen’s Fxrnd.