BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 98, 10 May 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

MRS. BOTHA'S MISSION. PEB PBES3 ASSOCIATION. Received 3 0/2 a.m. London, May 8. Mrs. Botha visits E iropo ti inform Mr. Kruger of the hopelefsne?s of resistance and tli3 terrible stato of the country. She envies to him a pathetic letter from Mrs. Kruger. ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL HXPEDITION. 1000 CATTLE, WAGGONS AND BOERS CAI'TUKED. I Received !>, 10,-iO p ni. | London, May 9. | Captain Via"n of the Waste n Bushmen with 260 picked men and horses pursued Commandant Matthew Pretorians and 300 mea in tin dir. ction of Waterburg, He rap'uiel thirty wipor.p, a thousand cattle, and twenty seven Boara.

BOTHA OCCUPIES C4HOLTNA. A SUCCESSFUL DRIVING MOVEMENT. HEAVY LO S S OF THE BOERS. THEIR STRONGHOLD INVADED. Received 9, 10.47 p.m. London, Miy 9. Botha and Ben Vdjoin hive occup : ed Carolina. The Timess'a'o? that Colonel Plumer marched from Pretoria and hald the drift? on 01ifnnt's river for t°n dayc, imp'itoning r.i\ny Boers iu a densely wo;d?d waterkes semi- circ!<y driving them into the hands of General Kitchener and the columns from Midd eburg, Beon; tt Burleigh says tho Boars had h'd ia the bush with th'-ir stoek and fi d before Plumer, leaving 350 of their w.ves and children who were in a lower and dirt : er state than K'.ffir*. The Bjers were a*t 'Undel and disheartened at their fastness s being invaded. 143 wire c.pturtd besid-s 50 who mrreiidcred.

RETUKNED TROOPERS. Wellington, May 3. Of the Tonga* iro's men 30 stay in Otago and 82 in Canterbury, tho rest b:iug exp«te 1 hare by the Monowa' un Saturday; 133 b?locg to Weliv.g'on, Wanganui, N-pier, and Gisborne ; 19 to Auckland and 25 ti Nelson and Witt Coast. The Ntlson and West CoasV men will, if possible, be sent on< immediately on Saturday by the Haupiri. Captain Cbayto-, who arrived by tha Warrimoo, brought with him twelye of the Tengarito's men v7ho missed the steamer, and may have, in consequence, to piy their own passag s. Oaiubu, May 9.

I'he returned trcops pass ;d through Oimaru s'oort y aftrr rooJ. There was no c< remony. O a ing to the officiousness of som-OM on tha rail.vay, the public, of whom there was a largo coneouree, were excluded from the platform at the start. Winn tie gites ware opened, under the dir ction c-f the Ptecaier, the sta'ion platfoiin was rushed and the utoaobt co-jfusit n prevai'e3. The Mayor and the local military autboritios found ir. impossible to do anything. Goreral di<sa'i-fac-tion was felt over tho arrangements. Welling'on, May 9. The Premier is advistd that Private Conrad Sax'ny is wih his rf girmnt, and Privates Miller and Popham arwlievcd to be well and with their regiments.