CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 260, 4 November 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

By ELECTEIO TfLEGBAPH— COPTBIGHT BOER 'war. GENERAL ITEMS. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, November 1. Prints Arthur, only son of the Duke of GonnaugV, who holds a sscoad lieutenant's r immission in the Seventh Hussars, has been ordered with his I regiment to South Africa. Mr Willcocbs, a Dutch Reformed Church minister at Mafeking, has , been sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment on a charge of inciting rebellions. Seven Hungarian Protestant Bishops and several hundred pastors, have petitioned King Edwaid to stop the «ar. Keirney, who figured in connection I with the agitation in favour of the ( condemned Fifth Victorians, is a youth, son of a minister at Geelong. He started the movement of the peti- ! tion to the King, but it was the action of Australia in the matter that .influenced the King's decision. New York, November 1. j Wealthy Hollanders in New York , are estab'i.-hing a Baer-Hollander colony of 300,000 acres in the State of Wyoming. Irrigation works and a beot sugar factory, are already being ! started in the colony, BOERS RU3H CO lONEL BENSON'S j COLUMN AX CLOSE QUARTERS. DISASTROUS ENGAGEMENT. EIGHT BRITISH OFFICERS KILLED. CAPTURE OF A LAAGER. Received 3, 4.58 p.m. London, November 2. A thousand Boers, under cover of mist, determinedly at very close quarters attacked Colonel Benson's column at Brakensleagh, north-west of Bethel, rushing two guns. Both sides suffered heavily, eight British officers being killed, including Colonel Benson, and fourteen wounded. Fifty-four men were killed and a hundred and sixty wounded. Colonel Barter from the Constabulary lines with relief reached the column unopposed. Lord Kitcheher, reporting, assumes the guns wft* recovered. Colonel Kekewich, marching for two nights, surprised Vanalbert's laager north-eistwards ot Rustenberg, cap' uring three wounded and seventy-four unwounded, including Commandant Klopper. Ciptain D.'carteret, Naw Zealand Mounteds, is convalescent and has resumed duty.