CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 106, 22 May 1901, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(15* KUCTIO TuXEGBAI'II.—COPIBIOHT.)

BOER WAR.

HOW BOIHA DELUDES HH FO..LOWERS. THK " WHITE OOMBf AKD PBAOB. PUR PIKBB ASSOCIATION. Bcceiv»i 21, 8.f.4 a.m. London, May 20. Maj>r-Guneral Kngoccupied Oaroliua on May 17. h. Boha told tfce Boers to re"ire and hide until the Brt sh pa sed. Botha d telared to fa<s burghers that the Bi i' ish were at war with Ruesia, that the plague was destroying British soldier?, and that the rest «erd departing homewards. Botha <dmi'ted he had tlioight of making poauc, fcuS waj thankful he ha 4 rejected tlw t rms otl'o'ed by Lord Kitchener. He decline I that the appiarance of tbe writ' c< met was a figo of early peace, wit'i ioclepiudecci fcr the Bwe.

HUGE RAILWAY SCHEME. Keciivcd2t, 9.13 a.m. London, May 20. Li ui.-Otloi el Oorioge is severely h'vji-si"tt Commaud 'Ut Foudm nrar Ajwul North. Geaetii! Ciewv killei 300 hov-cs imd mptnnd 124, weakeain; t L o fnemy's mobility. Karri-Davic, a Lluid jynJieate, is pit'ino'ing a xocoul trunk 1m e between Duiban (Na'al) aud JoLan&osburg, costing £7,000,000.

NKW ZEALANDEIia IN ACTION. London, May 20. Latett news of Do la It-sy is that wit'a 500 followers, a fifteon p-.usder, pompom and M»xim ho is in the Kh-i'lisdo) p ois'ii. t. A pu.ol of Yfoma'i-y and New Ztuilaudttiti, at Zo rust, surprised a I'o.r outmost at ai d killed iliive and wo'inlsd four. The attackers eaiuo of scath.'es*.

TKAIN WUKCKSItS AT WOliK. ltocoivcd 21, 15>.37 p.m. London, May 20. TLe rxplosion of a mire dciaikd an arn.oj.ix. v.-ain proceooing touthvard fro-a .'■))!.'. i'.'u riding *o the Knomladt district, Ki..mg Major Heath, Scuth Latc.-!iiie Il>gimei4. London, May 20. Tlie King has bee mo patiou of the 'mov inet.t for the eiecti n of the e stern port ; on of a new ca'hedial at Capeton n as a in<-niotitd of iLo.o who hsve fallen in il e war. Butt'i; a Quar.ormaster-SeigeAttt of tho Army Service Cgrps, who wm

ci le; 'd to South Afiici, killed five of h'.i clrldrtn and wounded a sixth at Wuolwch. CLEARING THE EASTERN STATES. MOIIE OAPTURES OF STOCK. I NEW 2IEAIANDEBB IN AOTION AGAIN. deceived 21, ll p.m. London, May 21. Gererala Blood, Kitchener, Campbell, Pulmenety (?Pulteney), Becs-a and Douglas have commeaced a second combined movement to clear the eastern distr iot-s south of the Delagoa Bay railway. Tfce opporition is not sei i .us, but the Boers will not be allowed to r.st. De La Rey ia procuring poor remount 1 . Colonel Bibington, us the lesult of a ten dajs' patiel, to Klerks do r p 15,000 sV'cep, and 1,800 ca'tle, and captured Klassen's and Verman's laagers. Twenty-five NVfw Zealand era, leidirg an advance party, charged a hundred and fifty of the enemy, who fled. They were chaatd for m'lts, the Bushnjon and Imp-rial Light Horse the New Z-alanders. Twen'y-five Bo<rs were diiven into the aims of Ooloi el Dixon's column and captured. BLOCKHOUSE PROTECTION A SUCCESS. DE WET AS MOBILE AS EVER. ORANGE RIVER BOERS TIRED'OF [FIGHTING. Received 21, 11.6 p.m. London, May 21. The blockhouse system adopted by the British for protection of th« line of communication has proved effectual and economical, liberating six thousand troopa. - Commandants Hertsog and Brand ho'd the country round Fetrusburg. De Wet, escorted by forty men, made a wonderful ride from Vrede to Philippo'ia to conduit Hertiog. The Orange River commando?, who were ordered to concentrate near Orange Rivor, decline to fallow Da Wet, alleging the tick is tos dangerous. BOER LOSSES. LARGE CAPTURES OF MEN, STOCK AND ARMS. Received 2?, 1.11 a.m. London, May 21. Lord Kitchener reported that duiing last week nineteen Boers were killed, fourteen wounded, two hundred and thirty-eight taken prisoners and sevesty-one wounded. Two hundred and twelve rifles, one hundred and five thousand rounds of small arms ammunition, and two hundred and eighty-sbc were captured. There were aleo large captures of hones and stock. It h officially announced that 249,416 officers and men are in South Africa including 58,821 coloeials. NEW ZEALANDER-S ILL. Wellington, May 21, Troopers Spence and Mehcrtens (Sixth Contingent) are dangerously ill at Pretoria.