BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 26, 31 January 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

GALLANTRY OF COLONIALS NEAR BILMOhAL. SEVERE FIGHT AT KOFFERFONTEIN. DEFEAT OF BOERS NEAR CAROLINA. PROLONGED FIGHT AT OLIFANI'S NEK. IMPORTANT COMMAND . GENERAL JDAKTNKLL PER PRBSS ASSOCIATION. " (Received 30,8.57 a.M.)

London, January 28. Four hundred Boers on Weineiday attacked 120 New Zoxlanders and Queenslanders, comminded by Mayv Tunbridge, who were patrolling '.he railway near Balmoral. EvsiytHnj; depended on who was theffir.s r . to reuh I and seize a kopj.- fommauuir.t; th« n i - way and camp. The coloi-ials *ou and held the position untill they were reinforced, losing two killed, and six wounded. Two of the colonials on t V extreme left maintained such a steady fire that they pre van tad the Botrs o tfianking their comrades .Brigadier-General Cunningham on Friday engaged Oummaodant De La R.sy at Koffetfonttio, wbea four British were killed and 39 wounded. MajorGeneral Babingtan threatening their flank, the Boers retired towai'ds the west.

General Smitk-Dorrion had a five hoars' fight and defeated a considerable force of .Boers bitwaen Wbnderfontfin and Carolina, when ene British was killed and 15 wounded.

The Boers summarily ejected all British sabjecta from Pietersburg. ConnJßgtiam'd Brigade expelled 8 large force from a stroag position Olif ant's Nek, in the Megailiesbnrgs, eastward, after several day's continuous fighting. The B.er 1 sses were considerable.

The Skylip cattle captured by tie] JBeers have been re taken. j Lord Kitchener has selected | Dartnell, who guided General Mue's «olumn through the Biggarsberg Fas, in the famous march from Dundee, to command a mobile column, consisting of Lord Kitchener's body guard, the Johannesburg Rifle*, and Gough's mounted med.

FOLIOS SURRENDER. XOBE GUNd AMD HORtES. OA3UALTIKB. Dfl WET AGAIN KBOAPES. (Received 30, 8.67 a.m.) London, January 28. Twenty newly recruited police being surrounded at D:voadah», north ol'l Vryburg, surrendeindu-irttistingly and j were s'ripped and reUased. I

George Brand, leader of the Eastern raiders, thi catena to prove that 100 Cape Dutch invited the Boers to invade Cape Colcny, and when tl ere refused to j'in them. t ] Eighteen German field guns cf the neve t model procurable have him landed at Queenstown for South Ahk.% with csrriagrs atd wagona complete. Nine hundred Hungarian hosrs have been stipp'd at Fianie for thf Cape.

KBUGER'S LIFE DESPAIRED OF. ' (Received 30, 9.10 a.m.l London, January 28. The Daily Erpies3 anr.ounee-i h»the doctoi "de'spairof Mr Knigu's life. (Received 30, 6 23 p.m.) Lonnon, January 29. Owing to nwrtiaUaw, Olive csc-hrei-' aer'a husband ie not allowed to leave the Hanover district Another batch of undecircbles have beentzpelled from Durban. (Received 30, 7.0 p.m.) Loswnr, January 29. Ik« niton wtw MfdNd at Oudt-

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SirA.Milner has vanned tho Cape Dutch that they will receive compensation for any damage they may sustain unless thay assist the military.

SIXTH CONTINGENT, Auckland, January 30. An immcnKe crowd will participate in the send elf of the Contingent. The horses were shipped this morning, aad the Southerers marched to the camp The public will assemble in the Domiin at 3 p.m., where the men will be addressed by the Mayor, and Sir M. O'Rorke, and will march to the Cornwail about 4 p.m.