BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 211, 12 September 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

GENERAL ITEfI. PBR PKESS >SSOCIAB)K. Lokdon, SepHnber 10. Thi War Office is f<|)ing additional companies of YeomSy for service in Sou'b Africa, asHs eolisting qualified Yeomon. H Lyttelton General Rildyard in the ntal command. ■ Received 11, 3.10 ]H. London, SeptiHber 10. Major-general Elliot's (Bsion, including F>e Lisle's column, Bought to Winburg 800 women and cßlren, 300 waggons, 8000 cattle, 1400 Bv'es, and many the ifand sheep. I Colone Barker also wafl a large capture ( ' st-ck in E-staS Orange Colony. ■ A seen id warrant has issued against D . Krauc, on a charge of in■ci'ing to i urder in the Transvaal. He was forth r reminded. iec<>ivedll,4.4Sp.m. Londot, 6-ptember 10. Lord litf.h'ner's wekly report 'States thi 67 Boers were killed, 67 wounde.l, 84 tak«n prisoner?, and 163 snrrender4l. Soventv-nine lifles, 65,211 winds of smmn'-iMVin, 371 waegor s, 3400 horse", 19 ; 00C cattle vera captured. HONOURS FOR THE BRAVE. INDIAN CONTINGENT'S FORTUNATE , ARRIVAL. a QUREIION OF AUTHORITY. RET IMNING REFtJGFES. flecjved 11. 10 24 p.m. \ondoi», S'ptorahT 11. Captain J. of the Bengal Lincbtp. commanilng tbeSnit-h A 'i- f r>lian mwnM', ha Awn made a Companion of DVinifched Servioe Oc'er for leid-'n.' a n«bt attack on Smith's laaoer on A'lsfct Ist. Cirporil K-Smrrlfl. Sooth Australian mo'ir>W-, haArsreivfld th-> mp'nl fr>>dis'in««iished Wwrv in the fi'ld Lord Robsr* declares that the nppnrtnnn arrival of a complete cmtingeot from lodilin the autumn of 1899 saved the sitwtion in Natal. H» t.be attachment of »he nati?» princes and gentlemen. The whole of Oommsndatit Scheeper's supply of carts haa been cap'ured. Lords Minto and Lansdowne h*v» supported Gsnfnl Hutton f action in ignoring G°nera : Lord William Seymnnr'a juried ictio l contingents on the point of sailing. In conppquejicfi of G°neral Huron's at.tit.nde General Sovmour rwisn d d on tbe ground th»t. he was W=ft. of his authority ; *h" j Boar/1 of Irqu : rv held in London hnsj now vindfeated him. Aefugees in Capetown have n Kiwi j 400 permits to return to .To! snnesburg. An addi'ional thousand ' vilt te issued at an early date. A CORRECTION. WEMiiKGros, S®pt«mb«r 11. The cab'egram ■ from Lordrjn on Monday announcing that Trooper McDomld, of tbn New Zealand Mounted Rifles, died of tcric feve' Blofrnfont-ein, is incorrect. McDoraM returned in the Britannic from Sonth Africi some weeks ago, «od is now at Kihikihi, Waikato,

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