BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 52, 18 March 1901, Page 2

BOER WAR.

CABLE NEWS.

Br Electric Telbohaph.—OmiaH*

BOER LO3BES. | ENGAGEMENT 4T kenhabdt. [PM PMBS ASSOCIATION.] ' (Received IG, 9.3 a.m.) . London, March 15. General French reports that an ad- ( ditional 46 Boars havo been killed and. ( waundad and 146 made prisoners, and ( that 200 rifles, 3700 cartridges, 2400 horse--, 120 mutes; 370 trek exen, 2600 ' cattle, and 400 waggons have boea captured. The weather is still wet. A fight lasting feur hours took place near Keahardt between 23 of Orpen's Horse, and 70 Boers. Three of the enemy were killed and wounded, including Field Ooroet Redelininga, wht received fatal injuries. ) DK WET AT BKtCEKAL. l , SUGGESTED SHIPMENT Q]p BOERB TO' y AUSTRALIA. * (Heceivod IC, 6.21 p.m.) London, March 15. » De Wet ia now at Sduekal. Mr Bredwjck in the House •! Ooamona announced thi>.t if further ship- » i&ents of Bo?rs were necessary '< Government would consider the saggM« tion to send them to Australasia instead of Ceylon or India. THK YIOTIMS OF DSLAHBTB I CRUELTY. * HEROIO LOYALISTS. , (Received 18, 6.26 a.m.) Lokdm, March 15. The victims executed by order of Delarey were namsd Boyd < and MoLaughlin. They were Aturalistd burghers. The Dutch rlctffia refused ' to violate the oath of neut ility, Received 16, 10.20 bin. Sydney, March 16. The first portion of the Imperial draft Contingent numbering about 1000 officers and meo, and I0(*0 horsea marched through tbn streets and boarded the troopships Custodian and Mapleuiore. BOBKB AT DKWKTSDOBP. DE WKT'S TEMPER. CONFERENCE OF COMMANDEKB, Received 17, 6.5 p.m: Loudon, March 16. Commandant Fourie has collected 600 Boers in the vicinity of Dewetsdorp. De Wet has declared that text to the Britishers he hates the Transvaalers. He repudiates Botha's peace negotiations, The Times Kaalspruit correspondent ' states it is reported that Betha, De Ljrey, and De Wet meet on the 18tk ' to discußS the situation, j BRITISH CAPTURE A LaAGBR AND ; SUPPLIES. { REINFORCEMENTS AVOID LANDING AT OAl'jttTOWN. (Received 17, 5.5 pm.) London, March Iff, The British smrprised and capturtd a laager at Krugerspost with a quantity of cattle and grain, and 32 prisoners. There were six Boer casualties and fivrt British. Lieut. Collet, New Zealand Mountsds, has been discharged from the hospital and resumed duty. Tho troops arriving in South Africa are landing at Kasi London and Port Elizabeth, instead of at Capetown, owing to the plague. ' DE WET CONOKNTRVTINU ROVING) BANDS. ;ABIL ERASMUS CAPTURED.. I Received 18, 056 a.m v ; London, M „,<)[» 17. i lieutei s dospatch statv>s that De Wet is concpntrating raving bands of Boers at Dornberg and "KoranMberg. Colonel Park captured Abel Era*, mus at Lydeafeirg, Auckland, March 16. Ihe Star correspondent telegraph* that the Government has granted a pension of £26 pec annum t» th» rnotbec of Trooper Connell, who was. killed at New Zealanders' Hill.