BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 215, 17 September 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

GENERAL ITEMS. PBB PRIMS ASSOCIATION. London, September 15,

Steyn and Dj Wet refused to listen to Pastor Murray, who voluntarily undertook to visit De Wet in order to endeavour to pereutde him to recall and disband Boers invading Cape Colony.

A commission in the Middlesex Regiment has boon grrtod L'ncaCorporil Storer, 6th New Zealand Contingent.

Sydney,

Eighteen New Zealand troop >i s have returned by the Harlech Cis'le, and will proce d to Wellington by tbe next steamer.

A BOLD ATTACK REPULSED. DE WET AND THE PROCLAMATION. Received 16, 9.58 p.m. London, September 16. Colonel Theron's force of eighty m<m wore boldly atticked at Seidelbera on Friday. Twonty five men of the West Yorkshire Regiment repulsed the enemy with loss.

De Wet refused to discus Lord Kitchener's proclamation, and told Pastor Murray that a clergyman's placn was in ths pulpit. Mr. Steyn discussed the proalamatinn, bub remained unconvinced by Rev. Murray's arguments and insisted that Boer refugee women were brutally treat'-d.

TRIED FOR TREASON, ENGLAND'S ENEMIES AT HOME. Received 16, 10.30 pm. London, S°ptember 16. Broecksma was charged with treachery ind treason. Documents seized in his house showed that treasonable corsona'le correspondenci had been proceeding for six months, pir medium oF Bro oksmu's howe, between Dr. Leyd, Mr. Kruger, Boitz, and Commandants in the field, under cover of letters ad-1 Pressed to the American Consuls at| The Ha?ne and Johannesburg. Mr. Kruger's letter showed he was forwardins to Dr. Leyds Broecksma's news,; which was intended to influence proBoer organs with the objecb cf prompting action by Parliament. The documents seized included a typewritten proclamation, signed by Louis Botha, announcing that the Bo?r fighting Gererals had outlawed Lord Kitchener and all the British officers, and ordering all burghers to kill every armed soWipr and policeman. Two of Reitz's despatch liders were captured on the Transvaal-Portuguese frontier, circulating cuttings froir the Review of Reviews and other pro-Boer organs.

THE LATEST. Received 17, 0.35 a.m. ! London, September 16. There is an impression in Capetown that only propertied Boers will be allowed to surrender. Loyalists urge the cessation or leniency, or else stricter measures and a vigorous warfare. Fift°«n Boers were capturpd at (Thaba 'Nchu on the 12th, aftef an engagement.

DEATH Off A RETURNED TROOPER. Auckland, September 16. Troop°r George Wilkins, cf the Fourth Contingent, who returned by the die J at Auckland Hospital f.n,i wounds and injuries sustained at .Southampton where his horfe fell on him several times.

Wellington,

The Under-Secretary for Defence has issued a notifieatiuu to nil members of the first contingpt.'s residing in Wel'iogton Military District whi not >eeeived tbeir pay that they ran obtain it at once on applying to bin office and forwarding their full address.