THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 196, 21 September 1900, Page 3

THE WAR.

KROGER ACCEPTS PASSAGE TO EUROPE. LORD ROBERTS TO SELECT COLONIALS . TO VISIT ENGLAND. IiOERS SNIJ'ING PORTUGUESE. MILITARY SETTLERS SCHEME. FUGITIVES TO DELAGOA TO REMAIN. LORD ROBEKTS TO DEAL WITH OFi'IOERS SURRENDERING. FOOD AND CARTRIDGES HID IN A MINE. I'ER FMJS3 AS3OOIATION.) Received 20, 9.30 a.m. London, September 19. Mr. Kruger has accepted the Netherlands Government's otter of a warship to convey him to Europo. Lord Roberts will select the first batch of colonial troops visiting England. The men hailed the prospect with the utmost enthusiasm. The Boers are snipiDg Portuguese soldiers on the Delagoa Bay frontier, and have killed one. A Committee is taking expept eviience at Capetown respecting lands ivailable for soldiers settling in South Africa. Received 20, 9.40 a m. London, September 19. Commandant-General Botha has reached Ottospruit. The Boers who fled to Delagoa territory will not be allowed to return. It has been decided that burghers who surrender will not be deported, sxcepting officers. Lord Roberts deals with the latter. Received 20, 9.50 a.m. London, September 19. Reinforcements are being sent from Delagoa to protect the Portuguese living on the Transvaal frontier. A hundred tons of food stuffs and a juarter of a million cartridges were discovered in a mine at Lydenburg. LUCKY CANADIANS. COMMANDEER iiOER SUPPLIES. Received 20, 10 p.m. London, September 20. ?'hrea Canadian Mounted Infantry, losing their way, uupevceived through tin) -Boer lines and entered Hebron which surrendered thinking

they were the UriiiMi vanguard, Tho Canadians command cerod n waggon and one liundiOii ritles and a quantity of ammunition and repassed the Boer iiDes and regained their regiment, THE DEFENCE OF ELANDS BIVER. MOST GALLANT EPISODE OF THE WAR. , SPLENDID HEROISM OF COLONIALS. Received 21, 0.20 a.m. London, September 20. An officor of Broadwood's Division describes Colonel Hoare's recent defenco of Elands River as the most gallant cpisodo of the war, and he commends the heroism of the Australians who formed part of the garrison most highly, also their splendidly improvised entrenchments. Lord Roberts, who has reached Nelspruit, repotts two gross cases of white flag treachery. REMOUNTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA. Received 20,10.50 p.m. 1 Sydney, September 20. The steamer Norfolk shipped 750 Imperial remounts for South Africa,