BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXIII, Issue 81, 26 April 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

HONOURS FOR COLONIALS, PURSUIT OF THE REBELS. [pes pjjess association. | Received 25, 9.3 a.m. London, April 24. The foi'lowing bave been created Companions of the Distinguished Service 0 dor Major Clarke, Victorian Bushmen, for ably opposing Commandant Da Wet ; Major O'Brien, of the Now South Wales Imperial Bushmen ; Oip*:. Wa'kfr, of the New Zealand Rough Riders, for good service in conr ectioK with the capture of guns by Cc'onel B.ihinsrton.

Tre following awarded di?lin-(or-duct medals:—Setgeant Davenport, Australian Bushmen ; Pr.vate Langham, Fourth NewZealanderf ; • Seret. Ge:rg", Private Angel, We-.-'lalian Bushmen; Rouse, 'Private Free, 6h New Zeilanders ; Corpl. Msy, Australian Bushmen. Received 25, 9.14 a.m. London, April 24. Li f 'Ut,-Colonel Haig, near PerstoD, is pui suing Commandants Shespers and Malan. The Victorians, after bombarding for an hour a position held by a section of Mil in's commando, ats'.ulted and carried it. M.'ijor Crewe, of the Border Horse, is pursuing Krurzsinger to the meuntiius norih-cast of Stevns^urg. Received 25, 10.52 a.m. London, April 24. .The steamer Morayshire conveys the returning Australian Bushmen ta Australia. Privates Clancy and Jones, of the New Scuth Wales Mounted Infantry, died of enteric. A SHARP ENGAGEMENT. Received 25, 10.8 p.m. London, April 25. A sharp fight took p'ace on Tuesday at Honeynestloof against one hundred Boers. Five Boer 8 were wounded and several captured. UNAUTHORISED RECRUITING- FOR SOUTH AFRICA. Wellington, April 25. The Premier has received a cable message frcm Sydney stating that no person has any authority to reciuit for coloni.tl or Imperial forces in New Zealand. The statement emanating from Christ'jhurch a few days ago that some officer was recruiting there for a South African regiment, therefore lacked one essential, namely, the per- j son on whose authority the men are] being enrolled.