BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 119, 13 June 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

GENERAL NEWS OF THE SITUATION. [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received 12, 8.ol! a.m.) London, June 11. The Daily Midi states that Commandant Chrietian De Wet wi'h 1000 men i 3 reported tj be at G\trand. [General Botha is s'rongly entrenched at Blamobmk where Commandant De La Itey is trying to join hioo. General Rundle's column devastated the Ficksburg and Bethlehem districts, destroying mills and agricultural implements. Fifty-eight Bo rs were kill.d and wounded during the seven we Its' much ; 7000 tons of grain and foiagp, 228 waggons, 1400 cattle, 1450 horses, and 700 strep captured ; andj 280 women and children brought in, I Eleven British were kiilei and 40 weundfd. Prinsloo's and Ramenbaoh's commandoes continually opposed j General Rurdle. i

Tie Capetown corre-pondentof The Times s'a'es that Lord Kitchen; r purposely a 1 lowed Kruitzinger to occupy Jamestown as a ba't. Although tihe plan failed the Bri ish hid compensatory tuecefses.

fc-ir John B'unde'l Maple complains of the worth'ess quili'y of Hungarian lies s purchased by the War Office for i'se in South Africi. He sllegrs corrup ion in connection with the transactions.

Fach Boer p isoner taken after tfce Jamestown affair had three rifles, plainly showing that Commandant Kruiizinger va? intent upon ie::ruiting.

M>, Krnger, Dr. Leyds, Mr. 0. D. Fischer* and Mr. A. D. Wo'.maranj, are at The Hague where tbey will nu.et M s Botha and receive her husband's peaca suggestions. A 1; th<} para 3 tima Lord Kitchener allows the Netherlands Consul at Pretoria, Mr. Smuts, and Da Wet'd snd Butha's Private Seeietuies fo ficely cable Mr. Kruger.

| NBW ZEALA.NDER WOUNDED I » AN EXPLANATION. SURRENDER OF A COMMANDO. Received 13, 0.23 a.m. London, June 12. Serge int Murni«, a Snith Australian, has died of enteric. Priyate J. Mom-ion, of the Sixth NZ. Mounted Rifl p, was slightly wound d a 1; Amers^oirt. Reu'er's agency explains that the Btoiy of the alleged shooting of i Lieutenant ani Srgeint-Major at Vhkfootein w s based cu s atemen s made by wounded men. Inrd Kitchener r<jpo3ta th.t Varensburg and his commando surrendered at Pietersburg. One hundred brought io their arms, and others are following suit,

EXEMPLARY SENTENCES. Received 13, 1.32 a.m. Tha Daily Mail sfca'es that two sur-rende-ers were court-mart ialled and shoi at Pre'orii for attempting torejoin their commandos after taking the oath of neutrality.