CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 13, 17 January 1901, Page 2

CABLE NEWS

BOER WAR.a I

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I jS'.'ERS UU3K.NI' JtTIFUSAIj OF OAI'K ■ DUU'K TO RISjB. iII.vSIXG MEM, ■ RE.°VLSE OF ATTACK ON A CONVOY, M RAIDS fOHANNTHBURG AND 1 DOMhSLAAGTK. j UTILITY OF CYCLIST OORPS. 'i ppk purss /ssooiATioir. H j (Kecoived l(i, H.it a.m.) i London, January 15. *1 FTteon thousand timo-expired ] Bvl' ; sh (ioldiers ara detained in India jj uv/in;j l:o Mispenaion of reliefs, due to M the South African operations. It is estimated that there are 2000 ||fl Roevs Irn *enn Clanwilliam and SuthcrAuother commando isadvancing from Beiuford West. Ail are splendidly 1 mounted with plenty of spare horses. ' The Boer 3 are extremely bitter at the refusal of the Cape Dutch to rise i» rebellion. After the engagement at Belfast on the 7th January, 72 men belonging to the Royal Irish and Shropshire* won missing. A determined attack mads on a convoy procoflding to Vryheid .was ro« pulsed at Blood River, The Boars are raiding farms fir* miles from Johannesburg. Lord Roberts has indefinitely postponed his receptiou of the freedom of the Oity of London owing to the present unhappy circnmslanoesof the war. Two hundred raiders at Doeslaagt# attacked a convoy, but were rspnlsed. Rustenbnrg has been roproruioaod after the garrison had bean short of rations for a month. The Cape Cyclist Corps, fighting liko Mounted Infantry, is a most useful force.

ARREST OF 9000 SUSPECTS. DESTITUTE FOREIGNERS AFPSAL FOR FOOD. DESPERATE FIGHT NEAR REIT£ HEROISM AND PLUOKU (Received 16, 9.80 *.»,) LaXDos, January 15. A Kaffir led the Boers to the only entranco in tho wire entanglement round Zuurfo&tein. Nine hundred suspects have been arrested at Vryburg and removed to Kimberley. Colonel De Lisle, with a strmg column, including the New Sooth Wales Mounted Infantry, has arrived at Piquetberg, via Sutherland, Many destitute foreigners from tk* Transvaal are appealing to the Durban pelice for food and shelter. Their respective consuls decline to help them. Major White, on January 3rd, seat / / Lieutenant Lang, with 150 of LoKftP Kitchener's body-guard attached to General Knox's column, towards Raits. While ascending a valley the force experienced showers of explosive bullets from kopjes six hundred yardi en the right and left. The Boers bered 1000. The Biitish retiring meeting 500 Boers galloped into a donga and fought from cover desperately, Laing was shot throngh the heart. The enemy surrounding them, the small force maintained a dogged re»ist>ince till the Boers threatened to kill the survivors. Lieutenant Bateson galloped through the Boers and mjciued White, Reinforcements wera< I sent and shelUd the disappearing j enemy, killing 17 at one cpot. j MISCELLANEOUS. j (Received 16, 9.65 a.m.) Sydssy, Janury 16. Fkflojn hundred application* hare been received for enrolment in the neir ' cjntingerit for the Cap?. Captain Cox, who nas just returned i by tho Orient, has offered his services. Tho Victorian force will consist el 504 offieere and meu, t olonel Price has agaia offend hit j services i n South Africa. South Australia's Contingent will j comprise 240 officers and men. j Melboubne, January ]6_ - 1 The Government hue cabled that M 100 young men havo offered ttMb I tho Marquis of Tullibardine's Bootofc !l .'. .^ 8 ti°v*rnment take ae n. M iponeibility beyond undertaking (ha '■ medical examination of the men. 9 movements or raiders. 1 WAR OFFICE ENLISTING Y*OIIANBK. M (Received 16, 10.40 p.m.) '9 t jf'il NDON > Jaoua*j Iff. H K.tchener r'p.rts several smaß M Sr. ° fmd#rßretarßi »« toOrang. I Some Capa rebek are aocempaiiTinv S he rebels who surrendered. S The War Office is enlistine firm <9 hoiwaad Yeomanry for a year or for fl be duration of the war. ■ HOW THE BOERS ARE DECEIVED. jfl !OERS COMMAXDIIJB SHARP FIGHT AT MURHATSBUKO.

GERMAN FARMERS JOIN THE CAI'E GUARD. CAPE! CYCLIST CORPS. KRCGER INVITED TO LECTURE IX AMERICA. Received 17, 0.37 a.re. Londos, January 16. One hundred and twenty Geriaf.n farmers have joined the Cape Suburban Guard. The Cape Cyclist Corps numbers three hundred. Mr. Mulholland, ail American millionaire, has invitsd Kiugcr to visit and lecture in America. RETURN OF INVALIDED MSN. i THEY VOLUNTEER FOR THE SIXTH CONTINGENT. WEllington, January 16. Amongst the paesengeis by the Moina to-day from Sydney were Ssigeant Lestrarge, Corporal Shepherd, and Trooper Smythe, ef the Fust Contingent, who came over to return to the front with the Sixth. Corporal Jones, of the Secsad Contingent, also returned invalided. SIXTH CONTINGENT. Auckland, January 16. With the arrival of thiee more men who have been aalected, the Auckland division of the Sixth Contingent, will be practically complete.

WiLiiiNQTON, January 16. Tha following provisional appointof non-commissioned officers in fhw .Sixth Contingent have been made: —Quarter-master Bergt., Oolor-Sergt. Mitchell (Wellington); Medical Stall Orderly, Trooper A. Saunders (Ohristchurch). No. 17 Qompany: Sergt--Major, J. W. Malcolm (Nelson); Ferrier-S< rgeant, Q. W. Shan; Sergeants, B. Turner (Wellington), | S. W. Freeman (Otaki), Sidney Smith (New Plymouth), J. Irwin (New Ply'mouth); Corporals, W. A. Nathan (Wanganui), A. S. Johnson (Levin), A. E. Urwin, G. H. SWSbs (Wellington); Bugler, N. A. McLean (Napier). No. 18 Company—Sergeant-Major, S. B. W. Crawford (Wellington); FarrierSergeant, K. L. Quinlan (Wellington); Sergeants, P. A. Deloree (New Plymouth), E. Beardmote (Nelson), J. McGoldrick (Napier), J. H. Leslie (Gisborne); Corporals, J. Jickell (Nelson), A. Kitney, M. Sullivan, A. W. McMillan (Wellington); Bugler, C. S. GirdleBtone (Wellington). No. 19 Company (Canterbury)--Farrier-Sergeant, G. Route; Sergeant*, G. K. Jackson (Second Contingent), G. W. L. Meher-1 tens, E. G. Smith, P. P. Shand; Corporals, B. L. Hodgson, L. Cabot', A. M. Mcintosh; Bugler, C, T. Flyger. No. 20 Company (Otago)— Sergeant-Major, H. W. Smith; FarrierSergeant, N. J. Oozier; Sergeants, H. Coatman, E. F. William?, J. L Taylor, W. Lorrigan; Corporals, A. H. Jones; Bugler, G. Collins. Piomotions of Lance-Corporals from the ranks will be made later according to qualifications.

WELLixaTov, January 16. | Sir Alfred Milner has cabled the Acting-Premier that Lieut. Keddell,! Fourth Contingent, was wounded in the left arm, at Ocitersdorp a few days ago. The wound is not dangerous. Through the Depu y-Governor, the Acting-Premier ha* cabkd to the Ad-, aural of th Aasbtalian S :ation asking whether the Mildura, now at Akaroa, can be at Port Chalmers v when the Orient reaches there witn the New Zealand troopers.