BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 56, 27 March 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

AUSTRALIAN TKOOPS. | PEtl PRESS ASSOCIATION. j I Received 2G, 9.33 a.m. London, March 25. j The Australian troops who recently | arrived in South Africa have been sent I to strengthen Colonel De Lisle's command. A LARGS MUSTEK OF LIVE STOCK. BOTHA ALIENATES SYMPATHY. (Received 26, 4.1 p.m.) London, March 25. Col. Thorneycroft brought to Dewetsderp 3000 horses, 3GOO cattle, and 17,000 sheep. Botha's refusal of the peaee terms is alienating many sympathisers in Brus- ' sels, Germany, Austria, and Hollaad. \ BOER DELEGATES IN,ENGLAND. Received 26, 10.37 p.m. < London, March 26, J. X. Meriiman and J. W. Saner, ; who recently were sent to England by tho Afrikander members of the Cape i Parliament to represent their \iews on • the South African situation to the • House of Commons, have petitioned to ! be beard at the bar of tbe Honse of : Commons respecting the settlement of ] the ex-Repnblice, especiallly against ; the Crown Colony administration. They refrained from "protesting against annexation, since baicg officially as- ' sured the decision to annex was unalterable. SEVENTH CONTINGENT. Wellington, March 26. ' The Seventh Contingent went this 1 morning to Trentham in flying column ] order, and will spend the rest of the ' week in camp there, marching about ' the rough country, skirmishing on the i hills, and practising at the butts. It is definitely decided that Lieut.Colonel Porter will take the Seventh Contingent as far as the Cape. .RETURNING TROOPB. Wellington, March 26. i Twenty-five New Zealand soldiers, j who have returned from South Africa, j sailed from Sydney by the Waihora on Saturday, under Sergeant Wilkinson. ; MISCELLANEOUS. |, i Wellikgtok, March 26. Lord Kitchener cables that Lieut. Trekey, of the Fifth Contingent has been promoted to a captaincy. The Prenr'er ia advised that Trooper J. Lamont, ef Oamaru. is dangerously ill of enteric fever ac Potchefstrom. Deaths from enteric are :—1077 Lamont, atd 461 McDonald. CASUALTIES AT HARTEBEESTEFON- ] TEIN. (Received 27, 12.22 am.) \ London, March 26. ' Six British were killed and twenty wounded in the fighting at, Harte|beestefontein on Friday, chiefly Light I Horse and Ytromauiy.