BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 234, 15 October 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

GENERAL ITEMS. PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION ' London, Gctober 13. 1 General Botba has sent a force to 1 , escort his waggons eastward. '' Two farmers, convicted twice of joining the enemy, have been hanged at Vryburg, while a third bad his sentence commu k ed to penal servitude for life. Sentences on two rebel farmers at Barkley We it and Jacobsdal were committed respectively to ten years' penal servitude and deportation. A farmer at Worcester was fined .£IOO for storing more than a week's food in his house. Commandant Kruitzinger and Ackerniann and other leaders are trying to cros3 the swollen Orange river southward. BOTHA ON THE TREK. COLONIALS AT WORK AGAIN. Bceived 14, 10.22 p m. London, Oc'ober 14. Botha retreated in difficult country, parallel with the Swaziland western frontier, until, finding that the British birred the trek north, halted near Luneberg (northward of Vryheid) on the 10th, despatching columns to occupy Pengola Boocb, where they have stack. They Boers are in a difficult situation, with their horses fatigued, and with British forces on the north and south-east. There are indications that Botha will retire in the direction of Elandsberg. Groebelar, commandant of the Yry- j heid commando escorting women and a transport, has left for the Ugomi j range. ] A detachment of Westraliane, New Zealanders, and Queensland?™, belonging to Colonel Walter Kitchener's command, captured 50 cattle, a quantity J of food stuff, seven waggons, and four prisoners. ] A DIABOLICAL TRICK. 1 Received 15, 0.21 am. London, October 14. Scheeman, one of Litter's lieutenants, has been sentenced ti d<-ath. Scheeman recently captured two British coloured scouts. He forced them to draw lots, and shot the one who drew the shorter straw, and sent the other b ck to inform the British. The Natal Voluntfers have been relieved from duty, and have received Lord Kitchener's thanks.