CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 118, 11 June 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

|(Kt Electric TEi.nonArn.—Copyright.) BOEF?^WAR. MORE OAPTUKES OF iiOEKS. PRAI3ES FROM A NEW QUARTER. (PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received 10, 8.55 a.m. London, June 9. Colon. 1 Wyndbam siirpiisei Com manduit V;«n Re won at Ringtevlei,J capturing 22 Boars. A patrol of Lancers surrounded a fai m at Steynbufg, and also captured 22 Boers. | A Dutch clergyman now residing at Aberdeen has written to the preps praising the humine treatment of the Boer women and children at Port Elizabeth. RETURNING AUSTRALIANS. Receive! 10, 1129 am. London, June 9. Colonel Blood's eperafciors have compelled the Boers to hide in the moucj tains. I Sevfril c?mmandant3 owning large farms are disposed 'o surrender. I Four hundred Australian Bushmen sail in the Roslyn Casile from Capet)wn to Melbourne ou Monday. " WILLING TO SURRENDER." I BREAKING DOWN RAOUL

ANIMOSITY. Received id, 10.45 p.m. London, June 10. A deticbment tf Scobell's Cape Mounted Rifles rushed a kopje whence Boers were sniping, and captured a batch of soipers. Fifteen waggonsful of Ermelo men and women were brought to Standerton, including Dr. Everard, who says all fighters are wil ling to surrender if their leaders would permit them. The king branch of the Sjuth African League, at a great meeting, recommended the suspension of tt.e ceastitutioDs and the suppression of the Afrikander Bond. Nine hundred Boer piisoners have been internfd at Bermuda. One thousand American and e'ght hundred Canadian remounts have bean shipped for South Afric*. Sir Gordon Sprigs, Cape P emier, is hoping to breik down social animosiy, and is studying impartially, iraspec'.ive of pirty cjpsideratioD, the development of the co'ony. Mr Sunrt, C immissioner of Works, intends to cons'nict light railways wherever the prospects justify ; aLo to cm ry out scientific irrigation.

I BBMABLK NEWS WAITED. MRS. BOTHA GOES TO EUROPE. Received 11, 0 20 a.m. L->N no's, June 10 Lord Kitchener d ■ela.rca the s'atement thit (J lonel Wilson captured Beyer's convoy last week is without foundation. The Times insis's on the urgency of a reputable news agency, acd isinqu ; riog into the origin, of what is purported to ba a precise narrative of f*ct?. ScabeU's detachment, besides Bnipera, captured thirteen thousand rounds of small arms ammunition.' Major-Geoeral Bullock's column has biougbtthe people to Standerten. Mrs. Botha goes to London a f . her husband's instance and seas Mr. Kruger. She returns to the Trat svaal in July. PBOGRESS OF SIOK NBW ZEALANDERS. Wellington, June 10.

The Premier hs ben advised that Trooper Mehrtens (Rmgiira), ill in South Afrira, i* slightly better. Stack, another invalid, is progres9ing f ivourably.

NEW ZEALANDER WOUNDED. Wellington, June 10 Charles Morris, a New Zsalander and a member of Kitchener's Scouts, was wounded on Ist June.