CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 141, 9 July 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

THE BOER WAR-

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m ■ RAIDERS BDBN A RAILWAY STATION. PEAOB OSLY BNBORKD BT ANNEXATION. FO HOBS ABSOOIATIOH. . London, July 7. Lord Kitchener reports that B er raiders horned Roodepoort railway station en Fiiday. They were driven off » ith I hejlraa of two kill d and s'ven taken praoaVs, all of whm were woungeJ. "The B itish had one Mr R"t>9 Irnes, At'omeyGeneral for tt>e Transvaal Colony, add reesei a meeting at Westminster under tbel aQ'pices of the Imperial South African I Association. He declared that the an- - oezation of tbe late Republics would : alone secure permanent peace. Tbeir iedepecdence meant a revival of con•pirsßj. A BRUSH WITH PRBTOBIUS. CLEARING THE ORANGE OF STOCK. ' PER PMHB ASSOCIATION. Received 8, 10.16 a.m. London, July 8. Feutert' agency repor's th»t a squadron of Bemiog'O'i's Guides roi.ted Ackerm a n , Bcomm c -ndo at Biakfontein. Aekerman was woundel in th° shoulder. Major Reming'on rest att cited Pre toriuV comminlo, 209 stro g, at Keo's'poor*. After a twenty minutes fight at quirten>, am-ngvt rocks and bushes, during which several Bo'ra were mounded, and Fre'orius being shot in the eye, th<) enemy fl d. Fve BritisS columns have been several we-ks clearing the bu : ks rf the Orange Riv. r, capturing 127 Roam, including several le dew, 92 rifles, 1,830 sheep, 7,000 citt'p, and 5,000 horses. To y a'so collected 1,200 ■ efngecs. ATTACKS ON BLOCKHOUSES.

STILL THK REFUGEES OOMB IN. (PKBPKBSS ASSOCIATION.) Received 8. 10 2? p.m. London, July 8. Farther dttai's are to hand of the •ttckmide on b'ockhmiaps at BrinEpruit on th« 26tb Juue. Two hundred of B-m Viljoon's commando a**empt«d to cro*s the D ilagoi Bay railway north wards; One of the blockhouses fell iotothe h*nds of the <nemy, but the ethers 1 eld out. An explosioi part'y der-ii'ed &'\ armon"ed twin carrying as isfrmce to the Briti h. The Bwr, thinking the train was wrecked, attempted to rush it, but encountered, at a distance of ten yard", a terrific case-shot fire, find thereupon withdrew. Two,thousand refugees have been brought to Edenburg in a fortnight.

THR NABOOBNBPRT/IT AFFAIR A STOBT OF VLAKFONTEIN. Received 9,0.12 am Londoh, July 8. An add r tidnal ten men of the "ordon Higbl nders were wounded by the wrecking of the train at Naboornspruit. Three of the Marquis of Tollibardine's Scottish Worse wee killed, and nine woundf d at Elandshok on the 3rd. The Standard spates Commandmt Vi jom, wi'h 400 men, who bad broken across the Delag a Biy line to the torthward, is now at Bothasberg. Betha has returred toward Erme'o. Received 9,0.54 p.m. London, July 8.

The Fatty Mail publishes a Utter aigoed Wall-c"," embodying the een-aioral narrative, of an rye witness (apparently an officer) of tbe baltla of Vlatfontfin. This tye witness allege' he saw t*o of Commandant Kemp's B'<ers deliberately sbo ting the wounded, f'>ur of whom they killed. These included a sergeant, slightly wound-d, and an officer, to whom the sergeant was tfifering wa f er. BBTUBNING COSIINGIfNTS. Wellington, Ju'y 8. The H» n. Hill* g> ea Sou l h wi h the Gi-verror this evening to meet the returning contingen's at; the Bluff.