BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 75, 17 April 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

CABLE NK^S

(Br Elbctbic Telegraph.—Copyright.)

A BOER WOMAN'S TREACHERY. 1 THE PRISONERS AT CEYLON. [PER PRES3 ASSOCIATION. | Reciived 16, 9.13 a,m. London, April 15. A woman treacherously directed two Yeomanry to obtain water at an ambuscaded spot on ttio Pagerfontoin Road. One wa3 killed and the other wounded. A farmhouse in the vicinity has since been burnt:. Received IC, 9.35 a.m. London, April 15. Four thousand three hundred Boers are interned at Ceyloa, representing twenty-five nationalities. They are comfortably housed and well-fed, and thtre is little sickness among them. The men are contented although there is a laage irreconcilable element among them. PURSUIT OF KRUITZINGER. ORANGE RIVER BOKRS JOINING THE BRITISH.

CONFERENCE OP DE WET AND BOTHA. (Received IG, 4.93 p.m.) London, April 15. A column comprising fix hundred colonials left Rosmead Junction in pursuit of Kruitr.inger. Increasiog numrjrs of the Orange River Colony Boer.? are joining the British in hunting down the marauding commandos. It is semi-officially reported at C'.petDwn that Bitba conferred with Do Wet in the Heilbron district oa Several conincindos in the Orange Colony are on furlough till to-day.

SUCCESSFUL SKIRMISHES. j SENTENCE FOB TREASON. THE MOUNTED FORCE. j Received 16, 11.10 p.m. I London, April 6, j Three hundred of Brigadier-General Plumer's force captured a field cornet at Briel together with sixteen Boats land ten waggons. | Col. Pilcher while skirmishing in the grange River district killed seven Boers and secured a considerable amount of stock.

The Trsßson Court at Barkley West, sentenced Pony D# Wet, a member of the Assembly, to three years and a fine ef a thousand pounds.

The Daily Mail states Lird Kitchener ha* now sixty thousand inountels. The compulsory «a'eti of stock in the dpo ' district yielded forty thousand horses.

RUSHING A LAAGER. REASON FOH COLLAPSE OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. LORD KITCHENER'S OPERATIONS. (Rflceivod in, 10.55 p.m.") London, April 15. Daring General Babington'g operatioßS Major-Genera 1 Sir H. Biwliosou'a column rut-hed Smut's laager, nwtW-wegt of KJerksdorp, at daylight. S ; x Boers were killed and ten wounded; 23 pcieoners, a twelve-pounder pompom complete, and two waggons full of amrauLition wore captured. j The Daily Mail states that the collapse of the peace negotiations in March were due ti Botha's belief that 'he pro-B :ers in England were able to restore indeDiodpace. He has dis-:-or-red his mistake. The Times that Lard Kitchener's operatious aro intended ta prevent tho largest of the forces new between Lethelam and Ermelo, also the Free Staters going north of the Buehveldt.

Wellington, April 16. The Premier h*s recsived the following from the Governor at the Cape, dated 15th : —John Moore, Sixth Now Zealaud Mount I .lifle 3 , died of dysentery at Pretoria on Ist April; A. G. Williams, 2nd Contingent, is dangerously ill with enteric fever at Spiingfontein; ' r Troopor J. Fourth Contingent, is i. .i.gerously ill at Johannesburg.