CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 99, 11 May 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

(By Klicctiuc Tu.eusaph Copyright.)

BOER WAR.

PEK PBKSS ASSOCIATION. Received 10 8.5G a.m. London, May 9. Be l son's column scoured the country from MiddlebuTg in tho direction of Raosetikro,al ar.d Fonsburg, and reached Belfast. They had one stiff fight, expelling Boers conreale I in a cave. Five British were wounded, including three officers. Tremendous quantities of stock and supplies have born' ciptund. Many Boers turrendorul in order to save their stock. Theie are thousands of refugi es at Middleburg. Oao hundred colonials, marching seventy one miles in twenij-six hours, occupied Winter'cui'g~pases, blocking theesiapaof commando to ] tho S'ufch-eisfc, Oapta'n Hurcombe with twenty S uth Australians sc.iued the couatry ti tho sou*-.h of Comrcisso Drift, and captured eight Boers, some cattle, and waggon". Afterwards Hurcombe and ! four of his men were captured but released. Received 10, 10 a.m. London, May 9. Van Plazon, a farmer at Barkley East, was scnten.ed to two years' imprisonment and fired £IOOO on charges of tie..son. Airaogem->nts are made to ship 1700 Boer prisoners to Bermuda. The plague at Cape Town is diminishing, but rats are still dying in hundreds. Received 11, 0.32 a.m. London, May 10. A shop-keep r at Pearston, Cape Colony, was sentenced to ten years penal servitude, for recruiting for Krui'zenger. Private Lamb, Victoria Mounted Rifles, was killed at Wagner's Drift. The stermer Morayshire has eailed from Capetown for Australia with 750 returning officers and men. Received 11, 0.30 a.m. London, May 10. Colonial troops repuVd Seheeper's commando at B iviairokloof river. Ben ViipcD, with 500 attacked Beiisjn's camp. A British pompon and maxim opened at c'osa range, killing six. The Boers fled, abandoning their transport. General Gieenfell captured fort Klipbam, killing niue and capturing fortyfive of tho enemy.

Wellington', May 10.The Premiw has received advice today of the daugerout illoe-sof three New Zealanders in South Africa—O. Lindop, Sixth Contingent, of enteric fevtr, at, Pretoria; E. Birrer, Fifth Contingent, of dysentery, at Kimb rleyj* Wiiliam Stock, Fourth Contingrnf, of enteric fever, at Johannesburg, i Chmstchukch, May 10. The returned troopers met with an enthusiastic reception here this evening. On tbe station addresses of welcome were given by the Mayor and Mr. Siddoa, who stited the Government had declined to entertain the suggestion made by the Imperial authorities that Boer prisoners shou'd he interned in Stewart Island. He also stated that to-morrow Mapr Jowpey would be promoted to tbe rank of colonel. The returned trooptrs were entertained at luncheon to-day. The Premier said ho had a tel gram announcing the ariival of- the S=-Vi-nth Contingent in South Africa, and hinted at the possibility of rending another contingent, as the s the war is ended the bet er for colony and the 1 Empire. He stated that Lieuts. Irwin I and Snmmervillo had been promoted to captaincies. '