CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 259, 2 November 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Tblegbaph—(JOPlßlOHT BOER WAR. PER PitESS ASSOCIATION. GENERAL ITEMS. London, November 1. Great Britain has compelled a Boer factory at Lorenzo Marques to reship to Hamburg 300 tons oF saltpetre, ex German steamer Herzog. DEIAREY RECEIVES A CHECK. HOW QUEEN VICTORIA VIEWED THE BOER QUESTION IN 1881. Received 1, 9.49 p.m. London, November 1. Delarey, with 1000 men, on the 24th attacked Yondonop'ti reir-guard, -but was repulsed, leaving 48 dead. Five Boeis were captured, including Commandant Reeketts, who was woundtd. Hans Joubert, a member of th« Yolkraad, was killed, and Commandant Lerntrier wounded. Sir Herbert Maxwell states that ihe late Q'leen Yictoiia, in 1881, told the Cabinet they weie all wrong. There should have been no convention with the Boers, but the difference should have been settUd by fighting. FLOUR FROM AUSTIIALIA Received 1, 9.49 p.m. London, November 1. The War Office has informed the South Australian Agent-General that it would procure half of the flour required in South Africa from Australia. YET ANOTHER OUTRAGE. THE BULLER-WHITE INOIDENT AGAIN. Received 1, 11.0 pm. London, November 1. Forty Boers surprised ten Georgetown Scouts at Doom River. Seven escaped, three losing their horses, and itook r>fuge in a house. Finding resistance hopeless, one of them, unand with hands up, went out, and was killed instantly. A Beer spy, in the uniform of Riming! oq's Guides, was arrested in a train jat Sternberg. | Colonel Dawkins' recent successes were due to night marches without baggage. Block-houses ar<> Veing {laced every 200 yards along ihe railway in disaffected districts, with Kaffir hounds | between. | The Natimwl Review has published [what is purported to be General ! Bullet's teleg.am to General White, suggesting the surrender of Ladysmith, Buller denies the accuracy of the teleI gram.