BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 226, 19 November 1900, Page 2

BOER WAR.

COLONIALS VISIT TO ENGLAND. ' r [PBB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] * (Received 17,8.56 a.m.) <■ London, November 16. > Five thousand of the colonial troops 1 serving in South Africa are expected f to arrive in England by the end of ' January. ' A reception committee, including ' the Duke of Abercorn (president) and * EarlGroy (vice-president), is arranging, with the approval of Lord Salisbury, Mr. Chamberlain, and Lord Wolseley, a programme for their reception. The colonials will also visit historio places. BOERS STILL INVESTING BOHKIZBB RENNEKE. GALLANT RESISTANCE. THE BUNDESBATH'S GOLD. London, November 16. Commandant Da Beer, with 800 burghers, ia still investing Sckeizer Renneke, in the Western Transvaal, although Major-General Settle twice temporarily relieved the position. The British garrison of 250, under Colonel Chauner, is gallantly resisting the attacks. | DECISION OF HANSEATIO OOURT AS TO THE SEIZURE OF GOLD. (Received 17, 9.9 a.m.) Beulin, November 16. The Hanseatic Oourt has ordered the ! gold recently seized aboard the steamer [ Bundesrath at Hamburg and conns- , cated by order of the Hamburg Oourt [ to be returned to the consignees?

LORD KITCHENER AT NATAL. HISS ROBERTS PROGRESSING.* KRUGER WARNED AGAINST AHTIBRITIBH REMONSTRANCES. (Received 18, 6.1 p.m.) London, November 16. Lord Kitchener has gone to Natal. Miss Roberts is still progressing favourably. The French and Netherlands Governments forwarded to Krugerat Suez, stringent measures respectively to pre-1 vent the occasion of anti-British remonstrances during his visit. OOLONIAL TROOPS VISIT THE QUEEN. KINDLY SPEECH BY HER MAJESTY. VISITORS GIVE A COLONIAL CHEER. Received 18, 6.9 p.m. JLonxod, November 17. Ninety Colonials, representing 45 corps, under Major Sir Francis R, M Synge, visited Windsor Castle and had a splendid reception, The Queen, addressing them, said: " With the greatest pleasure I welcome you here to-day, and thank yon all fe> your loyal services, and wish yon God speed and a safe return. Sir F. Synge called for tore) sheers.

A Sergeant called for an extra colonial cheer, given with three coo-ees The visitors were afterwards regaled at luncheon in the Town Hall. BOERS DESTROYING RAILWAY LINKS. HEAVY FIGHTINO AT VAYHXID. (Received 18, 6.9 p.m.) London, November 17. Tho Boars have broken the Bloem-fontein-Orange River Railway in twenty places, also the KimberleyBelmont line. The British have evacuated Vryheid, but the garrison were provisioned for j half a year. They occupy the hills overlooking, and threaten the benegers if they attempt to enter to blow the j town to pieoes. THE QUEEN'S RECEPTION OF | COLONIAL TROOPS. CONGRATULATED BY THE QUEEN. THE MEN ARE INTRODUCED IN SECTIONS. KINDLY WORDS BESTOWED ON THEM. (Received 18,6.13 p.m.) London, November 17. The Colonials who visited Windsor were shown the State apartments, the Soudan and other curios.

Many of the men, owing to wounds and sickness, looked drawn and pinohed, and some walked with sticks. , Owing to the downpour of rain the inspection was held in St. George's Hall.. The Queen was looking well and sat in her wheeled chair. The Princess Beatrice and her children were present. | The Colonials entered two abreast and halted at the saluting line. The j chaplain, Rev. J, T. Evans, was specially presented, the Queen remark-' ing " You have brought some very fine men with you." At the Queen's instance the men were brought near and introduced in sections representing the various coUv nies, the Australians first. Sergeants Lsggo and McDonald, Australians, were individually presented, and kindly words were bestowed upon many personally. SEVERE FIGHTING AT EDENBURGH. HBAVY UOEK OABUALTIEB. (Received 13,0.10 a.m.) London, November 17, Severe fighting at Edenburgh is reported, with 75 Boer casualties. TEXT OV LORD ROBERTS' APPEAL. Reoeived IT, 9.1S a.m. Sydney, November 16. The newspapers, at Lord Roberts' | request, publish the text of his appeal to the public forwarded here from headquarters not to treat the returning soldiers. He says for the Siko cf the reputation of the soldiers he hes boon so pleased to command ho hop a tho wcleomo home will not take tba» form of treating to stimulants, t|; a . a ' degrading thoso whom the nation de- j light.-; to honour, lowering tho soldiers of tho Qucon in tho oyos qj the world! i which hi watgkd VrttU ft'JairaHo* 1

tie work tlicy performed for their sovereign and country, lie earnestly begs the puhlic to refrain from tempt iog bit gallant comrades, bat rather to keep tfaem to uphold the eplendid reputation they have won for the Imerial Army. It is, ha says, a proud ecord of eondut*, from fin* to he* xemplary,.net a single esse at eerie* rime came under his netioe; indeed, the name of crime. Ze trusted impMtly she men'e on toldierly feeling end good sense, end he >ad not trusted in vain. They heal xwne themselves like hernee on the Mttle field, end like gentlemen on ell >ther eooasions. This teetimony, hff Feele tore, will be very gratifying to Brest Britain and to the Greater Britain whose aene ehtred to the folia* axteat and sufferings at well ae the glory of the war; who had helped a* materially to bring it to aeanaemfnl dote. He makaa the appeal becaaaa hahad read with great regret refer* that when the troops wen leaving London judidoiu friends had preaael liquor upon them, reeulting in eeme very distressing end diseretitohit aoenea. .__ MBiKNTOS OF TM WAS. The memento which the Timam Baden-Powell White-Kekewieh Oemmittee purohaeed for preeentetiew to Major-General Baden-Powell, General Sir George White, and Colonel Kekewich, are three miniature eennona made praoiiely after the pattern of the gnu used in the defense of Mafeking, and every detail ii adjustable ami can be taken to pieoee just in the tame way as a cannon erdinarily tued in warfare. The wheels* axle, and all the heavier parteare mad* efeilver, while all the finer parte a«i the tyres of the wheela are of gcUL The cannon iteelf u ef greenstone, and on the one to be preetntedtoOkmetnl Baden-Powell, there isageld bend near the touch-hole, with the letters • BJP.* on it. In each oannon there areM leu than 80 different pane; every spike can be taken out of the wheals, and the geld caps of < the axle-box, may aleo be token aft In length, the gnns are about ski iachea, and the greenstone barrel is] two and a half inches. The guns each, | atand on a honeysuckle plinth, Bin, ; by sia, and on this pUnth is *f ailvsr plate with the following insorin- 1 turn in Maori 'Nau Mai E Ta T**| Na Timaru,' which interpeted, meenej < Hail brave men; Timaru aaluteeyan.l Underneath this, each one bears an le>| scriptionaddreeeedto the kereeiof Mafelj king, Ladysmith, and Kimbarloy, n>| ipeotively, and setting forth that it ia e| aemento from residenU ef the diaj trick, The guns are made entirely efl New Zealand material. TueoUmwaeJ] obtained from the Thames, the few] from OUgo, and the greenstone ansa Honeysuckle are also Haw ZesJbafl product*. They won dengeedfaentij photograph of the Matching guns, II