BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 104, 20 May 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

THE KINO GIVES AUDIKNOB TO SIR A. MILDER. THB BURNT FARMS. PER PKBSS ASSOCIATION. Received 19, 4.67 p.m. London, May 18. Private Spencer (Westralian) died of enteric. The King has intimated fce will accord Sir. A. Milner an audience imttediately he arrives frvm Sjuth &( ica on Fri lay, and Lnid Salisbury and Mr. Chamberlain will be present at the audience. In the House of Commons Mr. Chamberlain announced that the Ooverßment did not indeed to rebuild the farm houses buiped in Sou h Africa. Received 18,10.53 pm. London, May 17. Colonel Williams force probably occupied the district where he was latterly Btationed. FURTHER SURRENDERS. VAN BBENAN'3 COMMANDO. CONGRATULATIONS ON BRITISH CAMPAIGN. Received 19. 4.57 p.m. London, May 18. Ninety more Boers, including Commandant Birendoorsten, and Seys'efe, ex landros*i of Petersburg, have surrendered. It is now stated that it was Commandant Lotter Van Reenas, not De We 1 :, who led a fresh force across the Orange river into Z-iurberg. They were trying to join one of the bands roving near Cape Coloßy. 1 The Times Pretoria coTespondsnt , and Router's Durban correspondent agree as to the daily stream of volun- , tary coßgratu'ations from ev rywhere ] on the result of the British campaign in the Bush Veld*, and as to the severity of the winter.