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Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22205, 24 February 1900, Page 2

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GREAT BATTLE; CRONJE SUES FOR AN ARMISTICE. London, February 22: Cronje lias been snrrouuded-. forthree days at Koodonsrand. Very heavy fighting took place onSunday and Monday. The British used fifty gnns on Tuesday. As the result of the battle of KoodF bosrand. Cronje has asked for an. armistice. The Boer losses were- tremendous; . and those of the British heavy. LADYSMITH RELIEVED. DESPERATE BATTLE FOUGHT.. Latest, cable news to hand is to theeffect, that Ladysmith has been relieved. Desperate battle fought. Heavy losses on both sides. ANOTHER NEW ZEALAftDER KILLED. CimiSTcnußcn, Peb. 22. The following cable has been received by Mr F. D. S. Neave from the War Office. London: ‘Regret to inform you that s >n, Second Lieut A. C. Neave, of the First Yorkshire,, is reported by telegram from Gaardberg as having beer, killed in action.’ Neave was 22 years of age, and the family reside at Upper Riccarton. Hewas educated at Canterbury College, and was elected lieutenant of the Canterjiury Mounted Rifles in 1897. He ■? decided to take up the army as a profession, and passed the examinations.successfully. When the first New Zealand contingent was formed he was appointed to a commission in No. 2 \ company, from which a few weeks.~ v back he was transferred to the Yorkshire Regiment, as a result of his success at the examination. He was; a dashing horseman ‘and much respected by his comrades. DEATH OF A NEW ZEAI&NDER Auckland, Feb 22. The Governor has received a cable f ora Sir G. Milner, Capetown, saying that Trooper James Patterson, of theNew Zealand Mounted Rifles, died of enteric fever on February 19. at Rondebosch Hospital.