BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 247, 15 December 1900, Page 2

BOER WAR.

DB WET OFF TO THE MOUNTAINS.

DELAGOA BAY IMPROVEMENTS.

ENGLAND TO COOTRQL THE ' RAILWAY, PRn rr.rsi association.) i:«CL:i <<l M, S.'IO 11.111. I/JM)ON, DjcoiuWr 13. Tli's (i 1" s. (invtt v>'o.sic il thineon I'li i i 1a who w..vi! ut lln. bort<lP( It i'' o'i veil that Comman'liint Ds Wot t.ai nl.u'd his ccurse, audi« now advarpinß lowaiils tho mountains in ibo Lad>bran j district. The Orirn', with soother la'ch of Australian troopp, has left GVp 'own. Germany lwa stopped thn ia England cf gtun tra'-ofaiturul ill thn Ehrhardt Onlmneo Oomp.ny «nd contract with the AhWk Coar leml Ocmpijjy the Kronud tint tf>r supply is. wcnnowt»nt withneu'r,l-*v. 15 is teaii ('flic al'y ilatel that G rmany, E gUnd, aui Portupal will improve Delagoa B >y, E .gland controlling the railway.

KRI'GWS MISSION. \ Received 14, 8.40 a.m. j Lokdos, Daoember 13. Advices from pro-Boor sources in Brussels atata that Rusria urged Mr. Kruger to terminate needless bloodshed and accept Great Britain's conditions, Bkbun, Dtcember 13. Count Billow stated that Mr. Kruger was warned while in Paris that the Ksisar would not receive hint; thelees ho persisted in his visit'. Germany was not accustomed to be thus taken by storm. Germany's attitude wan dengnod to promote her interests and facilitate the maintenance of peaoei He added t hat tho telegram the Emperor despatched to Mr. Kruger on the occasion cf the Jameson raid had proved that in the event of a conflict with England Germany must rely solely on her own strength.

PURSUIT OF DK WST, BOERS CAPTURE A BISHOP. RETURNING COLONULS. 3 DISMISSAL 0I p YKOMANRY OFFIOBRS. 1 (ReceM 14, 10.51 p.m.) ' Londox, December 14. Da Wot is proooading towards , Dewetsdorp. General Knnx is cloatly pursuing with a Strang force of mounteds and other columns ojnverginjronDeWet. The Boers captured the Bisliop of ' Zululnn;!, near Vryhnid; tbey took the 1 carriage horse*, but allowed the Bishop ts re-urn to Utioclit. Eight hundred returning Australians and a thousand Canadians were given 1 nn enthusiastic farewell at Capetown, Tho Mayor applauded their gallantry and devotion and presented them with souvenirs. Tho Hon. S'. John Brodriek has dismi'sod two officers implicated in the Yoomanay disaster. General L'ndtey fxrmaratoi Colonel Spragge, THE VICTORIAN BUSHMBS. Received 14, 9.40 am. Meuiouune, Decamber 14. Tlio Dofenco Dopavtment is advised that tho VictoriaD Bushmen will remain in South Africa till the end of the war. Brisbane, December 14. Regarding Lard Kitchener's request

that tlie Imperial Bushmen will return to South Africa, the Premier states that there wiH be no difficulty in raising in Queensland another feroe ef three or four hundred mm. Than are ptatf who will be glad to go on the mum terms at the lut Imperial contingent, t Sydkiy, December U. Eight hundred and fifty anaw remounts have bees chipped to Booth Africa. Another steamer take* a quarters! a million pounds of oenued mutton Car the army. THK HABLECH OABTLI UKOLIi*. RELIEF OF INVALIDED SOttnMT Obbistohomb, __ Seme of the troopers who iihml'l* via Australia state that the / Castle was full of vermin, Jmvlu >WIB ?■ / used to imprison Boars at flimiiiwtOM. " and tbo vessel had not been fumigated, ' WELLIOTTOS, DeewbrMP' c^s^issstss,^ to Mr. Pilcher at Capetown for dfctri* button among invalided aoUlstfffttf New Zetland in ued of MMtMV ' . assistance. I.* DETENTION Of THf BABUUI • ' CASTLE. - » llsi t. «)0,000 TIQOPB TO KULUX. /, **,£ DURATION OF WAB > > 11 '1 CHMmjHCTto*, December U." The Presaier has reosivadtte M. , lowing cable fan theCWttfr&tf, ; Faroes in New 8o«th Wales:—" Ihaar ; from the naval authorities tiw&nMi vU Castle is not likely to leave Sifawfar aforteighk" «•;«. ; The Premier alee reoeived* f «Mc' | from London« The Stenbrr War states that aa itis Mceemrrfer ; more than.3oo,ooo tnoM to ' vernment misaaloalatad thetatltovtf - --J the war " «. ...