CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 264, 8 November 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

Br Electric Telegraph—Copybwht. BOER WAR. . ♦ _- - GENERAL ITEMS. FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION. London, November 6. Van Booyen, formerly a candidate for the Assembly of Natal, has been senterced to 18 months' imprisonment and fined £IOOO for joining the rebels. Lord Kitchener's weekly report states that 28 Boers were killed, 11 wounded, 275 taken prisoners, 23 surrendered, 230 riflis, 21,500 rounds of ammunition, 112 waggons, and 1430 cattle captured. * The situation in Cape Colony has improved. A thousand Boers have been shipped at Durban for Bombay. Commandant Opperman was killed at Brakenalaagte. The Boers maltreated the wounded. The total reduction in thefMd to the end of October was 3367 officers and 74 649 men, including 855 officers and 16,989 men dead, and 2504 officers and 57,136 men invalided. During 1901 a total of 13,338 Boers have been killed, captured, or surrendered. Hon. H. Copeland, New South Wales Agent-General, bas presented Major-General Baden-Powell at tbe Imperial Institute with a sword of honour subscribed by the people of New South Wale». Mr C. S. Dacken, secretary of the Queensland AgencyGeneral, also presented him on bebilf of the Croydon miners with a bar of gold. THIS BADBH-POWELL PRESENTATION. BPEETH BY CHAMBERLAIN. Received B,' 1.6 am. London, Novembar 7. Tbe occasion of the presentation of the sword of honour to Baden-Powell produced a remarkable outburst of popular enthusiasm. A large colonial company and the Agents-General were present. Mr Chamberlain presiding, said the tribute was a new proof of the solidity of, the Anglo-Saxon race. The great colonies had now become powerful States. Some of these great nations had shared our hopes, objecttt and sacrifices with a prescience he wished everybody in Great Britain hid shared. They foresaw at the outset the greatness of tjhe issue, realising that it was a struggle which was for the Imperial existence of tbe race and its supremacy. Had Britain dallied, no 1 : listening to the appeal of her fellow-subjects, Bbe would have lost South Africa and forfeited the respect of her sister nations, whose goodwill and esteem it was the main object of statesmanship to maintain and strengthen. We werenotentitled,nor wished to make a settlement that would render futile the pacrinres and sympathies of our kinsfolk, and not secure to the fullest degree the obj-ct which both had in entering the struggle. Major-General Baden-Powell, in responding, modestly but warmly accepted the honours which, he said, be shared equally with his brave companions. CONTINENTAL MERCENARIES. HARRISMITH REFUGEE CAMP. Received 8,1.18 sjn. London, November 7. Numbering the rebels according to the nationalities under martial law at the Cape, it is shown that thousands of Continentals are amongst the recent arrivals. Tbey are, apparency, mercenaries bound north. Persistent reports are being circulated that De Wet is collecting mercenaries and straggling Boers in Demv raland and Bnsbmansland. Lord Milner has visited the refugee camp at Harrismitb. Mr St. John Brodtick, in a letter t<> the Bishop of Rochester, reviews the strenuous measures being taken to ameliorate the condition of things in the camps. If the doctors, at the termination of the winter, recommend a transfer to the sf aside, tbe expense will not impede such a course. He reminds critics that bands of desperadoes are striving to render the country uninhabitable. The mortality in the camps is largely due to the weakening effect of privations prior to the refugees' admission. * Wellington, November 7. The Premier baa received a cablegram from Colonel Porter, of the Seventh Contingent, stating that he has arrived at Newcastle (in Natal) with prisoners and refugee*, and is obtaining remounts for a six weeks' campaign from the lines of corminictfon. The contiogent captured during Oc'ober 34 prisoners, 31 rifiVs, 2000 ro'inds of ammunition, 120 borse*, 1300 3000 sheep, 24 waggons, and 15 ctrts. Its casualties were three killed and t»n wounded. The wounded were all convalescent and out of danger. The health of the contingent was good, despite hard work, short rations, difficult country, and bid weather.