CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 44, 1 March 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

(BT ELECTRIC TILICBAPH —COPYRIGHT.) BOER WAR. ♦ MEYER'S COMMANDO RETREATING. BATIONS FOR DETAINED WOMEN. CASUALTIES. [PER PBES3 ASSOCIATION. | Received 28, 9 37 am. London, February 27. ) \Jhe Boeig under Commandant Lucas retreatibj? before General French B. H. Rsid into the Pongola buabj.eo. the Swaziland frontier. In the House of Commons Mr. St. John Brodrick stated that the Boer ■women detuned in British camps on reduced rations were those whose husbands were on commandos. Ofchrr women wero on full rations. The following casualties ii recent engagements ara reported : —Victorian Bushmen: Private* Fisber s.nd JJolkway and Jones sHght'y wounded. Westralian Bushmen : Privates Pattan aud Burke severe') wounded. Mr. B?nnettßnrl*iga states that the Australians serving in Sou-h Afrirt greatly desire to be included in one command. MOVEMENTS OF BOTHA AND HERTZOG. YEOMANRY REIKFORCEMKNT3. (Received 28,11.23 a.m.) London, February 27. HertzJg is striving to join De Wet at Petrusville. Botha is between Ermelo and Mil dlehurg. The War Offica is increasing t.hBumber of "Yeotranry for tho Cap" *• 15,000. Ten thousand reinforcement, mostly troops »nd artillery, will sail b-fore Mn.h 14th. SrDNET, February 28. The two thousand men required foi the Imperial Contingent have he- n e» yelled. SURRENDER OF 300 BOERS. CfENERAL FRENCH'S CAPTURES. AMAZEMENT OF BOERS.

Received 24, 10.15 a.m. «---• Lohdok, February 27. *~ Forty Bo?W were cap tut ed near Willowmnre, avl 300 surrendered to 'General Fiench after some fijhtiog. Lord Kitchener has retched Middle"berff. He rep >r s that up to the 25th <Jeneral French's odditioral cayturts were—one ranete'D pound Krupp, cue howitzer, one Maxim, twenty thou-and round of small arms and ammunition, •«ix thousand cattle, t-n thousand s'leep, 287 wagons. No British casualties. The Boers at Pretoria are filled with consternation at General French's successes. Scheeper'a hager at Willmoie, with all supplies, was captund when the! bulk of the commando was absent.

Receired 28,10.65 p.m. Sydney, February 28. The Imperial Government his awarded the widow of Lieut. Grav , belonging to the New South \Vale> fjre-s and killed at Pardeburg in Pabruiry of last year while attached to th« Royal Higrlaodere, a pension of £BO a year, with a compassionate allowance of £ls yearly for eich of bis children and giatuities aggregating /160. Tr-HT2NING THE UK-P ON STEYN Ia ND DE WET. THE PLAGUK AT CAPETOWN. Received 1. o.i<o a.m. London', February 23 Hr. Burleigh cabled ou T.«fc.*hj cv nii./ 'hat the Onnge River waStilt hij.l). . The British colnmM are tightening their grip on St*yn aad De Wet.

T'.ertzeg is ne*\- Pe'ru-vil.'o, Pnvolsaie tngng-d ami a butt 1 e is imminent. Owing to tho fipitliy of tho Capntown Corporation tim (!"'.enimtnt lus undertaken the suppius-iou of thu plague. Wellington, February 28. Captain N. L, D. South, fcrroorly of the Hotcbkiss Battery, lias boon placed in charge of the Newtown camp. Lieut. • Aitken Conneil has been Appointed Acting-Lieutenant and Sfcaff-Sergt.-Major McDonald Camp SBrgt.Majbr. Trooper Cronnie and Bugler Fjx, of the First Contingent, of Canterbury, retui ned by the Talune. The Prero'er is advised that Private lA. VV. Dudley, of Chris'church, Private J, P. Roberts, of Nelson, and Nut si Dora Peiftr, formerly of Addington, are 'dangerously ill at Pretoria. The full Hit of the returned parky by the Talune is : —Captain Bart!ett (First Contingent); Surgeoti-Capta<n Godfrey (Third); Farrier-Major Clonic, Ser-jeant-Major Watt, S.-rgt.-Trumpeter Fox (all of the First C mtingon ); and Nurse Warriugton, of Wangauui,