BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 89, 4 May 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

. SUFFERINGS: OF TUB BOEBS. [PBR PRESS ASgOOIATIOS.] Received 3, 9.22 a.m. London, Ma; 2. A ttrong coltkmn is starling to t-e----prets tbe outburst .of Boer activity in the E lerktsdorp district. ' ' The -Bo*rs giierallysre" Buffering greit hardships on account of, the extreme cold and deficient cpinmissariit. There ere 6000 Beer refugees in tho concentration camp at Potchefhtroom, The Briish are d pasturing gr s' numbers of captured stock in Zulularid. PUNISHMENT FOR MISLEADING TROOPS. r V ... ;■ CASUALTIES. Received 3, 10.2G p.m. London, May 3, Several farmers wre senter c d at Colpfb'fg »o terms of from six to twelve mon' ha' impri. nment for nr'sleidiog troops in Lot reporting tbe ■ Casualties are Victorian Bush men, Sergt. Hurs K , Corp r«l Gvbell killed, Private Clay ppvi rely wounded at Zauisfotitein; Moun'ed S>rgt Everdll dangerously wounded.

THB FIGHT AT MALALATINE. SIR H. COLVILbE'S DESPATCH. | ALLOWANCES TO SOLDIERS' WIVES. ! Receive 1 3, 10 46 p m. London, May 2. Details of the fighting at Malalatine show, that Nkongeninek; commanded the highway,' and that the enemy's vanguard were expel'ed from thence. Before da> light the Botr?, imagining in the darkns3 that the British ware numerous, ratreatrd, leaving a strong fighting rearguard. The gtfirison at Z erust, which is still be'ng bl >ckaded, on April 29th raptured a f upply of fresh meat,

in the H' use of Commons Mr. Brodri«k, referring to St H. Colville's recently published-: despatch daaling with the a'tack on Cronje's laager at Paardeberf, said General Kelly-Kenny commanded on March 18'.h of last year, the dtte mentioned by Sir H. Cnlville, Lord Kitchener assis'iag G**n. Kenny tocrntrol the action. Mr. Brodrick al o stated that owirg ti tbe prolongation of the war ellowaoci s would be made t') wivesof soldiers serving in Siuth Africa at the rate, of fifteen peooe per day.