BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 216, 19 September 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

MARTIAL LAW. [per PRE.CS association.] London, September 18. The Daily Mail C ip» Twn correspondent s'Ves aid Sir W. P. Hely Hutchison (Governor of Na*al) are in favour r.f martial law at Capetown, in view of the extirpiti n of the rebels, while Sir Gordon Spriggs, Premier, and the community oppose it. I A QUEENSLiNDER HONOURED. I Received, 18,10.16 p.m. ' London, September 18. | The Distinguished Service medal has been conferred on Private Sweeney, of the Fifth Queenshnd Bushmen., Received 18.10.25 p.m. London, September 18. Eighty Boer prisoners were captured at Rustenburg. Further surrenders are reported in the Yaal River and Louberg districts. Received 19, 0.22 a,m. London, September 18. Lord Kitchener's weekly report states that 47 Boers were killed, 7 wounded, 371 taken prisoners, and 134 surrendered. There were 236 rifles, 23,750 rounds of ammunition, 164 waggons. 3,400 horses, and 5,750 cattle captured. Broeckma's trial is concluded, but the re'u't is no* published, pending Lord Kitchener's decision. The Boer's attacked Belfast on the 15th, but were repulsed. Received 19, 0.53 a.m. London, September 18. Brigadier-General Plumer and Major-General Sir Charles Knox are pushing the enemy in Orange Colony. All the Transvaal columns are refitting.