BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 48, 7 March 1901, Page 2

BOER WAR.

CABLE NEWS.

BOERS OOOffPY PEARSON. BBNTKNOfe ON REBELS. PBB PBXSS ASSOCIATION. Received 6,10.43 a.m. London, March 5. Commandant Van Reenan, with 500 men, is laagered at Diepkleof, sear Calesburg, Tha Beers hwe occupied Pearsen, 40 miles south-east of GraafFreneit. A number ef Mafekiug rebels have received senteoces of three years' each. A farmer was fined j£2oo or two years' imprisonment for harbouring rebels, Mr. Bennett-Burleigh says that tb« Second Aastialian Contingent, whil# willing to stay un>il r lieved, ate . ing tint the datj of tlwir return should le fixel.

I Bbisbani, Map c i, g The troopship Tmplemare if, ordered to proceed direct to th« (j aw f # _ orders. BOTHA CONSULTTcrjMMANDANTB. CAPTURE OF DB WHT'B INVASION PLANS. (Bweived 6, 10.50 p.m.) London. March «, Both has moved nortb in order to consult Suhalkburger and Commandant Fonriea. Papers coutaioing De Wet's Cape invasion plans have been captured. DETAILS OF THE CAPTURE DE 'wirra GUNB. WariH ENEMY COMPLETELY DEMOF aLISID. SIXTY COLONIALS OHAST ■ trrik THOUSAND. " HKIK Received 7,12.18 • a m Tv t •» »•<, March 6. eft °? tho 0 Of De Wet's fifteen pounde s en Ft )brllM _. u Bushmen, under CW ii. rtir that the Victoria J I W °f gUD d t b hVt British horMB WBr * teir * w as difficult to force Boora ' the gun and rammed bomt a stlel , but the pu»ue™ went torvnri without falt9riB P gi and i Captain Mart , 0r fiot cloße „ before the cartridge ». 8 failly in9er^dj aud fliins were t Hereupon abandoned. 16» eaur ny WBg HQ that Captain 7 Tivey, 0 f the Bu«hme», 0 atly distinguished himself, pursued three thousand with only sixtv menfo several miles. 7

Wellington, March 6, I e Premier bag been advised tbftt Iu - e .°? ra Peif ® r > of Ohristchureh. | who is ill in Pro'oria, is receiving every atte ation. Private Laxby is i B Natal jaw* iting transport >o New Zealand. " l " * v »te Von Dadelszen, of Napier, coneta ning whom enquiries were from New Zealand, was quite well when last heard of, and waa then with «) s regiment. Napier, March 6. A letter waa received by the Borou -h Council to-night from Mrs. Berry widow of the late Lieut. Berry, who di»d from enteric in South Africa, scaring that ahe had reoeivnd tiit- first inafc linent of the pension of £74, and it was fil«3 understood thntun Imperial pens-oil would also be available. The Co'-jneil decided to cease the present grunt to this case. ,

(B* Ileotbic Telbmaph.—Coptbisht)