BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 225, 5 October 1901, Page 2

BOER WAR.

CABLE NEWS.

(Bt Slvotbio TnwHtAtH.—Qomu»*.)

GENERAL ITKH& m PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, Odtober 3. Tbe eaaaalties at Mokaadrift, Oakdon River, on September S7th, win: —Killed: Queensland Bushmen, Ideatenants Pooley and Caskey; Privates Milner and White; Bix»h New Zealand Mounteds, Privates H. Straw- • bridge and W. Raynes, the latter accidentally. Missing, believed, Jb»j drowned, Private W. Matthews; severely wound*], Queensland Bqahm*in, Private Gatfield and Corporal Hall. ■ , , Half a battilion of Mounted Infantry are starting for South Africa shortly, and others are in training. Colonel Cole fond one of the guna captured at Ylakfontein in a dan*. Details of the Moldwell fight enowed that General Featherston-Haogh'p and Kekewjob's columns wete returning ~" separately after driving tbe Beers northwest ■., Kemp, who was acting under De la Ray, crept back and attacked Colonel Kekewich's font, firing into the camp at dawn on the 30th. Colonel Kekewich carried tbe Boar position,'the enemy retiring precipitately. The British lost manr horses, and were unable to pursue thVenajay. The wounded ware tak/n burg.

THE ATTACKS ON ITALIA AMD-HUM. T -•« '.' PHOT. ■' •'< ' l^••^

~ Received 4, 9.34 p.m. ■ Lorook/OotoW 29. Throe companies, composed'of draft* of Dublin and Lancashire Fusiliers, and Middlesex, Doret, and South Lancashire regiments, with two fifteenpounders and a Maxim, garrisoned Fort Italia; Afiticipattag3*e> attack an outpost of sight men, under Lieutenants Kane and Lefroy, was placed at the top of the Ital mountain. At midnight 700 Boats attackeJ the outpost and captured it after sn heroin defence lasting an hour. Fighting | was at close quartern, and, Boer dead were piled up all around. Lieutenant Kane died at the he»d of his men, shouting "no surrender." Lefroy was badly wounded. The fort w.'B then surrounded, and determined fighting kept up till 7 o'clock in the evening, when the Boers retired. Tho garrison, being short of ammunition and water, retired to Ukandht. Tho Boar casualties were altogether out of proportion to the British. A simultaneous attack made on Fork Prospect, garrisoned by 65 men, with Maxim, failed, the Boers leaving CO dead.

MOLDWKLL OASUAUTIN, REINFORCEMENTS JOB SOUTH AFRICA. -- Reoelved 4.10.66 p.m. Colonel Kekewißß '*** *s*en!r wpunded, in the right shoulder and Ml side. Sixteen officers and at man of the Scottish' Horse were wounded at Mnldwell. Soouts repirt that tho Boers lost heavily, though they removed} most of th v k'#oitl|ed. Six hundred Constabulary recruit* will be sent to South Africa during Ootober, and a similar number io .November. The Second Battalion Leintter Regiment, at present in Jamaios, has bees ordered to South Africa.. 'i ■o v! li