CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 182, 12 August 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

f]ST KLBCTEIO TIUGBAFH—COFIBIQHT) THE BOER WAR. GENERAL ITEMS, m PBBBS ABBOOIATION. Losdos, August 9. A patrol captured a Boar belonging to Theron'a commando, with two hordes and a quantity of detonators and con-tiiv-trcds for exploding trains. Scheeptr'g commando shot an interp>e erin cold blood at Steytlerville. Mr. Bennett Burleigh states that the «uea>y ana. receiving supplies through Bisutoland. The managers for subscriptions for Boer women and children admit that they are well provided for, and that the £20,000 in hand will be better sp.:nt after the war, A proclamation issued by Lord Kitchener, dated' July 7th and published to d«y, no iSes that all leaders most, •uironder before September 15th or be banished for life from South Africa ; al«o that themaintwance of the families of burghers who have not surrendered br tha> date will be recoverable from the property of barghers in the field. Lisut.-General Neville Lyttelton will succeed Lord Kitchener when I vents permit the transfer of the chief 9mmand. It is understood Lord Kitchener will proceed f o India in January. LORD KITCHESKR'S PROCLAMATION. Received 11, 3.39 pjn. London, August 10. Lord Kitchener's proclamation emphasised the accomplishment ef annexation, and the pos'easion of the seats of government, the pnUio offices, and all the railways. He announces that 26,000 Boots are either prisoners or surrenderors living peacefully in towns and c-imps under British control. The few remaining und -r arms have lost almost all their guns and munitions. They are disorganised, and engaged in isolated attacks and acts of plunder and distraction, while they are aimlessly prolonging bloodshed and ruin-, ing the peacefully diepoied. Britain was determined to suppress all such lawlessness. In the House of Commons the Miristerialia's regard Lnrd Kitchener's proclcmation as ore which, if it errs, is leaning to tbe side of leniency. The pro-Boers violently attacked Mr. Ghamb rlain. BOUTH AFRICAN KVDORBKMBNTB. Received 11,4.39 p.m. London, August 10. It ttarspires that resolutions adopted by the Natal Ministry, suggesting the banishment of Beer leaders, and tbe distraining of property ef those still in the lie'd, reached Mr. Chamberlain on the' 25 f h July. Mr. Chamberlain on the 30th forwarded to Lord Kitchen-r the draft proclamation, whirh the Natal and Gape Governments on the 2nd and 3rd August respectively approved. In the House of Common*, Mr Chaaberiain, in reply to Mr F. A. Channinf, Liberal member for Northamptonshire East, and a very strong opponent; of the Government war policy, siid that Lord Kitchener fully approved of, the proclamation before it wesdiafted. There has ber. a genrral advance in stocks as a result of the proc]amaVor, Cor sola are at 93J. The Daily Newt describes the proclamation as an e-npty thunderbolt. The foolish bluster of a baffld bully Seeking to cow where he cannot conquer.

CONTINENT \T, ATTITUDE TOWARD THB PROCLAMATION. STRONG PRESS COMMENTS. Received 12, 058 am. Lojjdon, August 11. The proclamation has provoked, in Frarci »nd Getnnny, an outbreak of unfriendliness towards England, 8 >me papers describe the position bb one of bankrup*cy of English gereraship. A MEMORIAL CHURCH. Wellington, August 11, The Premier this afternoon laid the found 'tion stone of a ?cots Church in Abel-Smith-s'ree\ The church is partly intended '8 a memorial to t'oipers who have fallen in the war in South Africa, and ministrations will be conducted in it by Rev. William Thomson. ANOTHER NWW ZBALANDER'S ' DEATH. Dunedin, August 11. Trooper Ueenan, of the Fourth Contingent, who returned by the Tagus, and died in tho Hoppitil, was buried tod«y with full military honours. Their was a vary large muster of returne 1 trooper", and officrs and men of tl-e vol inti e s, while th'ro wa< a larje following of the general public, acd :hon«and« lined the streets.