CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 221, 30 September 1901, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(Br Blmtbio TinwHUPH.—OomiaM*.) BOEIW

MORTALITY AMONG THE Rnrnnygg, wm pans nsooumoir. Loiroox, September 27. Out of 107,405 white refugees in camps duiing Aujm«t 1878 died, including 510 children out of 22,039 children in the Orange Colony, A TRAIN DERAILED. ' Beoeivtd 28. 7.48 p.nu Lokdon, Septeßker tJ r A train was accidentally derailed at Standeit n. Sit of the Diagooik Guards were iil'edjoad 38 injured; OAPiURE OF BOERS AND BTOO&. ANOTHER WHITE DLAO ATROOITK. ATTACK ON A FOOT. Reoeived 29, S.lO p.m. (rt Major-General Keke»teh, honk, west < f Bustenburg, captured 35 Boera. 60 horses, 30iifles» fad five wsggcu full of clothing. Lord Kitchener reports tba Lieutenant Miers, of the Somerset Light Infantry, attaooeA to the Constabulary a,t want on the S&h i«wt. to meet threeßoeraaMroachiitß under the white a««|brt conversation were km to shook dead and gallbp.Mfty> The enemy fdree Bcder Bbtli attacked a fort at Italia Prospeot, ft* the Zululaud border, on the 29th, the ganison gallantly repelling them and lufiicting heavy toes,- * , A timer's message states that the garrison tost' one killed and nine, [wounded.

HONOURS FOR OOLONIALB.. THK BANISBED~BOKB LEAWRR. VLAKKONTEIN FUttT, Rtoeived 29, U*p,m. n,. . „ Sep'.embw 28. Ihe following honours, dated November 20th, 1900, have been conferred an New Zeahndera: - Distingui&bed Conduct Med-1, G. Hf-lmu* Bearer of the Boyal Red Crow, Williamson. Many Australian* te~ ceived similar honours. Major "artmg New South Walf» Medio»l Cbms li made a Companion of the Bath. Those permanently banished «rr Botha, late Landdtost of Pretoiw Field Coronet Botha, U„ uro ." iiondt, aud DupUmis, Uapt.as Oili*it. Coos, and Kruger, and Ai)Wtan'. Vanderlii.de. , Detail* <f the VaUf ntein, «&»< »how that the British ineudtd to cap--ure 50 roviog B «m. The k um< oponed fire at 200 yarda, the Bowa rounding Mid JBnttiK «fed>

them with a brisk rifle fi'e. The fcreech-bltck of one gun, with the belongings of both, were destroyed, and the breach-block of a second guti was buried before the British surrendered.