BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 222, 15 November 1900, Page 3

BOER WAR.

■- CABLE NEWS j_ (By Emotbio Thmobaph.—Copybiohi.

' » ' BOERS DISPERSED. T a PEAOE MEDALS. 0 (PUS PBBSS AS3OOUXIOB.J i. Hooeired 14, 9.2 a.H. Lohdoh, November 13. i, One hundred and fifty Boers were r. dispersed by eighteen men escorting a i small convoy near Christina, woundiaj several. ; The Government have ordered one . hundred and fifty thousand silvei medals from Birmingham, There is a r portrait of the Queen on the obverse, . and a figure of Peace offering a laurel wreath to the British and Colonial Army on the reverse, ACCUMULATION OF GIFf 8 TO SOLDIERS. SUCCESSFUL ENGAGEMENT NEAR KIMBBRLEX. CAPTURE OF VENTEBSDORP. COLONIALB DO SPLENDID WORK. POLICE PATROL FIGHT FOB HOURS. AMMUNITION GIVES OUT. CAPTURED AND BTRIPPED OF RIFLES, &o. (Receded 14, 4.21 p.m.) ' London, November 13, A hundred tons of gifts to soldiers have accumulated at Pretoria, which were undelivered by the War Office owing to the peregrinations ef the men, The bulk of the other presents sent via the Pest Office have been delivered. Colonel Settle heavily engaged the Boers southwards of Kimberley with success. Many prisoners were taken. Colonel Douglas captured Ventersdorp, which was the enemy's supply base, together with 21 Beers and a quantity of cattle. The New South Wales Bushmen and New Zealanders did splendid work. A police patrol at Petrusburg fought 100 Boers for some hours until their ammunition was exhausted, when seven were captured, stripped of their rifles and valuables, and released. The Queensland Bushmen, at Pienars River, captured six Boers, two of whom were badly wounded, SUPPRESSION ;OF ANTI-BRITISH DEMONSTRATION AT MARSEILLES. (Received 14, 4.43 p.m.) Pabis, November 13. A number of hawkers had their licenses suspended at Marseilles for singing and selling a French version of the Boar hymn, thus exciting an antiBritish demonstration. CASUALTIES. (Received 16,12.27 a.m.) London, November 14. 0. Bottan, New Zealand Bough Riders, died of wounds at Kimberley, MISS ROBERTS RECOVERING, ) OONSTABULART FOBOR BEING RAISED. (Received 15, 0.11 a.m.) London, November 14, Miss Roberts is progresaing favourably. Private Kluffer, South Australian, has died of wounds. The Government are recruiting 1000 constabulary in the United Kingdom for the Transvaal and Orange colonies. MEDICAL ARRANGEMENTS. (Received 14, 9.22 a.m.) Sydhey, November 14. Dr. Scott Skirving, who accompanied the New South Wales troops as consulting surgeon, has returned from South Africa. He says the medical 1 arrangements were far from perfect, 'but they did not deserve all Mr. Bur-dett-Coutts' strictures. Many hardships were necessarily incidental to ! warfare. RETURN OF QUEENSLANDERS. LORD ROBERTS PRAISES THE MEN* Received 16,0.11 a.m. Brisbane, November 14. Lord Roberts cables stating that A detachment of Queenslanders has lelt for home. He says he is sorry to lose such useful men. He was always able to repose confidence in the Qaeeniland Contingents without ever finding it misplaced. PRAISE OF N.Z. CONTINGENTS. Welmngion, November 14. Cape files just to hand state that at I the annual congress of the South Africa League at Capetown, the President, Mr. Cecil Rhodes, in the chair, a resolution of appreciation and thanks to the sister colonies helping inthe war, was carried with acclamation. General Brabant, speaking to the motion, made special reference to the services in the field of the New Zealand rough riders, and spoke of the division as one of the best that took part in the war; the men were of the description known in England as Yeoman farmers; they had done their duty admirably; had never given trouble, and had made it obvious they had everything in common with South African loyalists. He hoped some, if only half a dozen, would remain in the colony, for be was con. Ivinced they would set an example of the greatest possible value to the farmers of Cape Colony. 11 :.,,"', , , j.,">, hi n