BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 54, 23 March 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

GENERAL BOTHA'S BROTHER KILLED. DK WET NEAR HEILBRON. [PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Hecoive'i 22, 9.3 a.m.) London, March 21. Lard Kitchener reports that Piailip Botha lias bean killni at Doornberg and his two sons wounded. The Boere in tho Orange Colony have disbanded and s"a*t>Tal. Commandant Do Wet is in the neighbourhood of Heilbron. Mistaking a superion forcn of Boers for British 24 menib> rs of the Cape Defence Force woi e captured at Winterburg and stripped and releised. The Taalbosch wreckers consisted cf Cape rebel*. DECREASE IN DEATHS FROM ENTEKIC. (Received 22, 10.4fi p.m.) London, March 22. Deaths from ente'ie in South Africa are decreasing. N.S. WALES CONTINGENT. CAPTURE OF TASMANIAN3. (Received 22, 10.46 p.m. London, March 22. 001. Knight, who heretofore was with Col. l)e Lisle's column, commands the latost NeitSouth Wales Contingent. Jas. Egan and Walter Hodgkiuson, Tasmanian Busbmon, wero captured tear Win'ourg. TRANSVAAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. (Received 23, 1 a.m. London, March 22. The Transvaal Executive Council includes Mr. G. V. Fiddes, Sir A. Miloer's S-.cretiiry, as Secretary of Administration ; Mr. Duncan, Comptroller of the Treasury; Hon. W. H, Solomon, At-torney-General, sad Sir Godfrey Lagden, Commissioner of Mineg. DJtt, WET'S MOVEMENTS. DISTRIBUTION OF FOROHS IN ORANGE COLONY. Received 23, 1.2 a.m. London, March 22. De Wet is reported to have gone to the TnnsvAfll uttor suspending the Free Staters' operations until he returns. A few days hence twenty thousand rrounteds will be distributed in four divisions in the Orangft Colony.