CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 285, 3 December 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

BT EUBCTBIC TKLEQrAPH—Coptbight. BOER* WAR. GENERAL ITEMS, PKS FXBBS ABSOCIATIOH. Lohdoh, December 1. An optimistic feeling prevails at tbe Gape that the war has entered npon its final phase.. The Boers have little ammunition snd are experiencing great hardships, the extension of blockhouses circumscribing the healthy anas.

Kemp's commando is reaping and burying grain.

The Victoria Cross has been awarded to Lieutenant Price Davies, of the King's Royal Rifles, who scted gallantly at Biverpoort.

The Seventh Hussars have sailed for Bouth Africa.

The Anglo-German press declare that Sir Heßrv Campbell-Bannerman is tHechief cause of the outbreak of Anglophobia in Germany.

The Bight Hon. Jesse Callings, Unionist member, visited the Boer prison camp at Ahmelabad, India. He found the prisoners anxious to testify to tbe admirable arrangements made and the kindness of the officials.

THE CAPE PREMIER ON THE SETTLEMK«T OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUESTION.

Received 2.10.37 pjn. London, December 2,

Sir James Gordon- Sprigp, speaking at a Caledonian Society banquet, siid the army of Cape Colony nambared 18,000. Three-fourths were mounted, and these were increasing weekly. The colony was controlling thirty-one district?, including the Transkein territories, with a'view to preventing the invaders' return, or any encouragement thereto. The colony was also eying the whole cost of town gawds, le Government and Lord Kitchener were working in perfect harcnonv. The meeting of Parliament was defend o t on the end of tbe war. The attrition of the enemy was proceeding steadily, and loyalists were hopeful in mind; but a large debt had been incurred in maintaining tbe requisite forces. A Customs conference would be a first step, from which the federation of the States wou'd gradually mature. The Government was opposed to the ultimate sub-division of the colony into States, BEBELS IS WEST CAPS COLONY. Deceived 3. 0.12 a.m. Lakooic, December 2. Commardoa totalling 1500 men occupy positions in tie west of Cape Colony, some distance from tbe railways, and where water is scarce. Major-General French, with eight columns, is operating southwards and eastwards of the invaders, while loyalist troots occupy the various villages.