BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 27, 4 February 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

l'E01'0:;AL TO DEPOSIT riU3ONJKB TO IJJDIA. ENGAGEMENT WITH DE WET. ACTIVITY OF MOUNTED FORGE, [PHK PBUSa ASSOCIATION.] (Kooeived 1, 11.48 p.m.) London, February 1. Lord Kitehouer is anxious ta fend 10,000 prisoners to the Nilgiri tills, India.

Major-Ganeral Charles Knox engaged De Wet south of Welcome On the 29th. After 6ome hours fighting the Boers remuvtd muny casuaitisa :n carts, leaving five dead on the field. Two British officers find one priiate were killed, and one officer and twelve men were wounded. De Wet ou ttie 30 h crossed the B1 oemfun tei n - La dybra ii d line at lsraelpowt. Maj x-Geuenil Bruee-Hamil-ton's coluiun at Waterworks was uriaWlfi to intercept him. General French's cavalry and mounted infantry are sweeping the country east of Pretoria along the Johannesburg railway, between the Delagoa and Nat j1 railway? tj Emelo, wUero thoy engaged two thousand of the enemy in a wide valley, who retired with four killed &ud nine wounded, one of the British being killed and 7 wounded.

URGE OPERATIONS IMPENDING. Received 2, I.SS p.m.) London, February 1. Active fifcld operations on a large dGtle tru imminent in South Afriea. Ltvge numbers of muunveds are b ing employed and the infantry are being moved in mule waggons.

LORD KITOHENER'3 TASK. Received 2,1.13 p.m. Los dow, February 1, Lord Kitchener, writing to the Italic* Ar«khigh«p uf Sogaro, say* "my task in mo/o difficult than in the Soudae," He denied the grots lies about British «r#elty.

BOER EITORTS TO ESCAPE, lteccivcd 8, 4.50 a.lll.

Londoh, February 2. Rtid>rs at Oliphaat's River Valley abaudomd ni.uy horses and cnrts, and endeavGurcd 10 retrofit through Mirioog spoof; whe e thq British icpulsiug them occupied the pass, and drove a portion to Konga mountains capturing some, wbile the remainder retired eastvciml.

A thoiis.iud mounted troops have been landed at Port Elizibetb.