BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 116, 1 June 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

CABLE NEWS

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COLONIAL OABUALTIPB. [PER PBEBS ASSOCIATION.] Received 31 9.20 a.m. London, May 30. Captain Malcolm Hipewell, of the South Australian Bushmen, died of enteric. Casualties in the fighting between Bethel and Standerton include the following :—Sou'h Australian Bushmen : Private Goode kilKd, Corporal Linsdrll and Private Hicks wounded. Queensland Buslimm: Privates Hunt and Hendry killed, Corporal Milchel, I Privates Wheatley, Hilvty, Mason, j Campbell, Carless, Sweeney, and Tomp! wounded, one of the Tenth Uuusirs killed and seven wounded, two Fiist Muns l er Fusiliers killed and six wounded, one of the Somerset Regiment killed and four wounded, a private of the Twelfth Lancers kil!e', aa Engineer woubded. No official details ot the fighting have been received, the Standard's correspondent being r< sponsible for the report of Voljo:E's attack on General Plumer. The total casualties rrpo p t r d, including miner engagements in the Transvaal, Orange River, and Cape Colonies, are 30 killed and 58 wounded. Received 31,9.33 a.m. Further casualties areKlippao, Victorian Mounted Bides, and L'eutea&nt Wedd, severely . wounded; Private* Town and Colean slightly wounded. ANOTKBB BURPRISK FOR THE BOKBS.

A rUBGB ATTACK RKPULBID. [ Received 31, 9.82 ld. Londoit, May 30. Major-Qeneral W. Krox was aboard the armoured train wbioh was recently dynamited southwards of Vredefort - Road, when one officer ard a sergeant were reverely injured. CjlonelAllenby, on Saturday, surprised Joachim Piitsloo's laager at Wilgerever, capturing many Boars, besides rifles, ammuni ion, and ca'tle. Liebenberg's commando, 400 strong, twice desperately attacked a convoy at Beitfontein Drift. The Boers were repulsed with the lou of 14 kilkd and nine weußded.

The Boer raiders, in the vicinity of Oolesberg, have recro«s«d the Orange River. THE FIGHT NKAB BKTHIL ' GOLD MINK WORKING AGAIN. Received 1, 0.24 a.n. Londos, May 31. JL later report shews that a mixed form of Queensland Bushmen, Royal Munster Fusiliers; and other troops was escortmg a convoy near. Bethel; and was attacked on the., 25tb. A ranging fire took plffce, lasting for six bouts.' . Colonel Plumer's main column brought to Standtrton several waggonsful of families, a thousand cattle and many hors°s. Mr Hutchinson, Ooverr.or of Oape Colony, made a short tour of the southern district*, joing as far noith as Worcester.

Five Rand mines are working. The Goldenhuis Deep and tbe May Consolidated Mines are operating Ih'rty and fifty stampers respectively.

BOKRS IN SOBS STRAITS. Received 1,12.34 a.m. Londot, May 31. The" Times correspondent states that owing to the concentration of British forces covering Cradck and TarkasW, Kruitzinger r B raiders have gone to the vicinity of Ms-lwno. Time Brit : s-> columns in esehdon foimatiomare pursuing them.

The Daily Express reports that Hsjor-General Brabant states the Gape Dutch farmers are incented at the wholesale Boor leo'ing, and readily communioite information to the Defence fercM. Trains northward of Queenstown have been suspended. Mr Bannit Burleigh states it is reported from trustworthy sources that Botba and the Boer Government are north-west of Ermelo in a wretched plight. Botha's force conrisfs only of Biz hundred fighters with three Pompoms and a high velocity gun with scarcely any ammunition.

REPORTED CAPTURES BY BOEBS. | Lokdojt, May 31, ! Co'onel Allen by has been deprived of a Colt gun at Frinslro, The Daily Mail stit's that invaders have captured 500 fco's-s near Colesberg.