CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 74, 10 August 1901, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

cby Elbotbio IthttaßkTH— Oorruan) I THEBQEBIfrW- { GENERAL ITKMS. I pbx prbu assooiaviox. j London, August 8. Commandant Fouobe's oommando, recently raiding the Barkly Hart dietricl-. in Oape Colony, bit re crossed the Orange Hirer. Colonel Jarvis'e detachment of Qufeoslaaders pursued the B.«H north-west of Botbashjoek, capturing fifteen, and 150 and 10,000 sheep in one day. ' Colon?! Williams, C.8., New Sooth iWales Medical Corps, has bees gnetted with the local rank of Surgeon Central while in South Africa. The Oape oorretpondeDt of the Btrliner TageUatthM bean arrested on a charge *f etpiohage. He will be ooartmartiall»d. • The Timti Pretoria oarnspoodtnt states that Lord Kitchener will not forward the correspondents' nerratiret in reforeßce to the Vlakfontm atrocities until they are oonlrmed, owing t> the Government, suggesting that the presdosnsors are i (sponsible > for the truth. > Much delay is now occurring ia con- ; n»ct'ou with the war beoauw 4Mly 60 ; Brit sh columns are operating. , Duplenis, the Boer peaee envoy, 1 who last ye»r visited England, bat bran ' sentenced to a month'* ioipritotmdnt i on a charge of concealing arm*. Myerbach >'■ the name of tha I Tagebtatt's Oape Town aorrespoodeot. i One hundred and twenty Britiah '• were killed in action during the month ; of July; 45 died of wound*; 190 ol i diseiss; 19 from accident*; 67 art I missing and captured; and 1,139 ini' valided home. .!' r | BRITISH LOBBKB Tj J-ATB. Received 9,10.40 p.m. Londov, August 9. Since the beginning of the war ii South Africa to the end of July the

, i British army hj»» suffered til* following I looses:—Deaths, frifta all, caoMt, .. 17,103; misiicff, 566 .diwhargad M f unfit for duty, 3292. .; . . ; „ ~' „: Sir Henry OampbellßuMrnua, g speaking at Pecbbam, adTOcated a j generous amnesty after the war. Dorj ing the cortinuamw of the , war o»J? f should rebels be punuhed. [ BTEBN MSABURKB TO Bl ADOPTED. I I OAPTUEK OF A. BRITISH POBT.

Btceived 10.0.14 a.m. ; Ixnrom, August 9. ' In the Home of OomatOM Lovi Stanley read, amidst cheers, the ten* of the instructions seat to Lord ehener to execute persons convicted d authorising or esmmittiag matitttß contrary to civilised warfare, in aocordinoe with' Cemmnndaot Kraift* zineer's recent threats. Lord S'onley explained that Lord Kitchener wcala decide as te who tthould be en'itM to be considered bt*l iger nt«. H • aete OB his own initiative. Router's Durban correspondent ftyfl Lord Kitchmfr*s pne'amiti n, •■- bodying tbesa instructions, is highly approved of, as i' it felt that atom

manures am absolutely n*oe-a ry to terminate the war. Thn Boers have captured a po»t wlta 25 of S omacker'e How, on the Safes' iiv*r. BOER LEADERS bURRKNDBR. Received 10,0.5S a.m. | Lohdov, Aligns* 9. Lord Ki'chener repor** <hit Commandant Beyeip, serobd in eo«»» nund to De Villiers. with two field cornets, surrendered at Warm bathe. "THE SEVENTH- NEW ZBALANDIM, ■ OHHiSTCHUEaH. August 9. The Premier has reoeiv d n oabW from Li-utenant-Co'ooel Port*r, ia commind of the Seventh Contingent ia S >u'h Africa, etatiVg that he wss in tba t drc'or's hands owing ta nn accident is the field; hut it was nothing s*riom. The Contingent wss at Kroonstad and hj« exp°rt ei to rejoin it at Blx-mfea-teiu tor the next trek.