CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12, 16 January 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

(Br lucskio Tw,*oeaph.—Coptbiqht.) I

BOER WAR.

THE KHAKI BUSK FAILS. BOKB. LEADKh PATS THE PENALTY.' i FATAL DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. ! l AUSTRALIAN 81XTH CONTINGENT. ! (Received 15, 8.50 a.m ) I LoKj.ON, Jiir.uary 14. j Further particular i*late - hat Beer a j weiring khaki and BiitisV- Va.pd:»i?r:i eurpr sed a sentry at Zuuifeutein and , got within eeven yards cf the trcnjbesl before they were identified. "'hi ir; Insdfr was unhorsed but crawlrd WJ;.' tnd was shot dead as be roe. He proved to be a member of the Free State Yelksraad. One hundred and fifty Britishers with the utmeet ga'lantry repelled 1000 of the enemy. Lieutenant Frremasoß, with 90 rf the Cheshire Mounted Infart'y and a ' few details, were entrenched at Ka%l- ''' footeio and e*m« off ecathlr si. ' Eight handred Bean with two guns vainly shelled the position and made repeated attempts to rash the tranches, but were splendidly repelled with keary lessee. An explosion of dynamite killed 8 men and wennded Oeaundant Haosbrock's wife white trarelliaf in a waggon between Boeraben and Venetrsbnrg. Stdhbt, Jannary 18. Applications for enrolment in the nest Contingent for South Africa are coming in frealjr in the various states. CASUALTIES. (Received 15, 10.34 p.m.) I Londok, January 14. Lient. Wyly, Y.C., Tasmania, who wan dangeaously wounded at Nooitgedacht, is doing well. CAPETOWN GUARDS. Received 15, 10.40 p.m. London, January 14. The Capetown Guards number six thousand. BKORUITING FOR BADEN-PjOWELL'S POLICE HAS NOT BTOPPED. TEN THOUSAND YEOMANRY TO BE RAISED. AUSTRALIA SENDING 10,000 MOUNTED HEN. (Received 16, 1.12 a.m.) London, January 15. The War Office deny that recruiting . for Baden-Powell's police has stopped. 1 It; is hoped to raise ten thousand f fresh Yeomanry Cavalay. The Australians ore furrithing] another ten thousand mounted troops, j Transports at DurV an are preparing i to prow ed to Australia. MISCELLANEOUS. Wellington, Janunr? 1 ~>. Sir A. Milner c>hles that Trouper Cameron, of MarHnboroiijr'i, V/Hirarapa, difd at Lintlley of en'er c fever eo January 2nd. As the n -jum i'km-k not appear on the official '>f {hiNew Zealnnd continue: its, *!. c embMities as-ume th«s derws* l inu-i. ::«•« j -ined one of the corps founei! in South Africa. Dr. O'Neill, assistant snt£<v>n Dur.edin Hospifc.!, has been ■■ ; pointed assistant-surge-n to Sixth nt. He wa« educated at Ofcijro University. At the ri quest of the Reception Committee in Dunedin, the acting-

(Premier has cabled to Ihe imperial trarsport officer asking that the Orient, with th» returned troopers, should be timed to arrive at Port Chalmers at 4 i a.m. next Tuesday. 61X1H CONTINGENT. Christchurcii, January ] 5. -At a meeting of the Patriotic War Fund Oommitte, an offer was received from the Mutual Lifa Association to insure twenty-five men of the £ix!h Contingent for twelve months. Tt'o Committee decided to think the Association for its cfl' r, but to inform it that as the funds in the bands of the committee could not be applied to insuring only one section of the Canterbury Troopers, ard as tl>« insurance of the whole was bfiyond thy committee's mean*, tboy regretted tie proposal could not be ertertaired. Awklasd, J-t».marv 15. At a p.i<?f;i;in<!i of the Sixth Contingent. Send-off Committee, a lively discussion tcolc place on the motion of Mr. Wesley Sprang that in deference the wi=hes of Lord Roberts that so a'coholic liquor ba provided at the dinner to the troopers. A majority voted for the motion, but the mioority declared the meeting had been packed by gtemperanee people. It was then decided that only those who attended the previous meetings should vote, the result being 8 for and 8 against. It was finally decided that the Refresh- ( ment Committee be asked to make a recommendation on the matter.