BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 254, 28 October 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

SENTENCES CN REBELS. PKB PEESB ASSOCIATION. Received 28, 9.29 am. London, October 22. The squadron surrounding the women's lxuger in the Hatrismith district secured 30 families, including sixteen armed Boers. Prominent Boer raiders bave beet banwhed for life for treason and murder, and also for having paiti.ip»ted in an abortive attack on the town of Richmond. Another Boar, Dave], was fined £SOO at Gnadfreinet and two ye»re' imprisonment for failing to deliver fodder, and possessing a rifle, The imprisonment was subsequent); remitted. NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES. Received 27, 4.34 p.m. London, October 26. The British have swept the Biban - ango and Inhlaztze districts clear of the enemy. Sergeant E A. Potter, formerly ol the Fifth New Zealanders, but now with the Seventh New Zealand Mounted*, has been dangerously wounded near Orangedalo. The casualties at Paardeplaats include Captain Hugo H. Henry, of the Seventh New Zealanders, Bomewhat severely shot in the thigh. SENTENCE ON VICTORIANS REVERSED. Received 28, 0.5 a.m. London, October 27. In Kspocse to a petition to the King, signed by Alfred W. Kearne/ and a scire of o'her Australians now at Olapham, the War Office has quashed the court-nwrtial proceedings and ordered the immediate release of tbreo members of the Fifth Victorian Mounted Infantry, who were sentenced to deith and whose sentences were afterwards commuted to a term of penal servitude, for mutinous conduct in resentiog tbe epithet " white livered ears " used by Brigadier General Beatson on the occasion of the reverse to the Victorians at Williamsrast on June 12th. Beatsnn, who according to the Sydney Daily Telegraph of October 7th, used some strongly condemnatory language, was subsequently re-called.