BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 65, 1 April 1901, Page 2

BOER WAR.

CABLE NEWS.

Byßlbctmc Tblkobami.— OorxMcns.

ILLICIT LIQUOR OFFBNDW. RIDGBB CLEAKED Or SMIHUUty

(PBK PUSS ASSOCIATION.) Received 30,9.10 a.m. loxdov, March 29. Australians largely compose the tW tective force at Johannesburg against illicit liquor and other offences. A thousand Police Court and 4.00 hitjiec Court cases have already been tried. Professor Goldwin Smith eondemu) General Botha's refusal of what bo doscribes as the best terms possible. General Bruce Hamilton, in a running fight, expelled snipers from ridgsj alter ridge in tft» Dewetsdsrp di»trwt. The Boors have interred S9B Bom at Peniohe and 275 at Aloobaoa, town of Portugal.

DXLARBT'S ATTBMPT TO INTMOirr A BRITISH FORCE. STUBBORN AND BUOCMIFUL. BWHV I ANOE. | HBAVY BOER CASUALTIES. (Received SI, 4.54 p.».) Lomxw, Maren 80. Delarey on the22nd by means ef • sudden swoop tried to intercept the rear portion of a force of'twe hundred British which was returning from ft reconnaisanee at Haabestefontein. A. number of the Imperial light Hone were hard pressed and seised » kopje, where they fought intrepidly for 2% hours, when they were relieved. The Boers sustained forty casualtiM, COLONIALS IN SOUTH AFRICA. Received SI, 6.7 p.m. Lokdoi, March SO. P. 0. Best, of the New Zetland Rough Riders, died of enterio al Potobefstroem. John Ryan, ef the Victorian Bttk« men, was drowned at Warrenton. WrLLrKQTOjf, March 30. It is understood that the Trenchant camp of the Seventh Contingent will breik up oa Tuesday. Fowler, of Nelson, who was injured at the ciuip, is progressing well in ton Wellington hospital. There are 26 men in the Contingent who have already teen service ia Africa, 17 holding acting oornddf* sions. The Premier hut evening read the following cablegram :—" Please accept and convey to the people of New Zealand my warm thank* for the splendid Contingent under Colonel Banks thai hns arrived here, and which has new t.ken the field. We regret losing the men who have served with as during the past year. They have invariably displayed the utmost courage and devotion, and I congratulate New Zealand en having been represented by so magnificent a body of officers and men. Wherever they have been engaged the Naw Zealauders always distinguished [themselves.— KncEon."