CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 6, 8 January 1902, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Eukjtmo T«tBaK4PH--^nMßiri^S BOER* WAR. tf * ' '■ "^ GBNXRAL ITEMS. 'J PCS rSBSS ASSOOTATIW. Jl%*^? Lomxnr, ; r ' The General Erasmus who *aa> re-Vi centty captured is presumably tjjjt "■■ leader who commanded (he Tnaifjifl l > Sfc&ats Artillery and ce-opented with' Lues Meyer at tbe battle*/! Talaoa Hill in October, 1899, r f The Rev. Askew, a ponu'aV. Baptist at Liverpool, was mobbed for praubr iog a pro-Bjer sermon, and every window in bis residence was smashed. Lord Roberts will mnt all aenbwi of Cjlonial corpt the'volunteer kof.' , service medal, and volunteer olam '#< decoration. - Nbw York, January #;.' VLtW 3. Bryan, addressing a m*o- - of 4000 pro-Boew at C%*Jm4L j Ohi I*, 1 *, eaid the war baa bean eottly atii *\ taught England a lesaon. Hange! "- the Boers to persist in their rstjstanae. Stdhr, Janaary 7. Contingent camps an being tongaf and enrolment it proceeding la tht various States. Lord Kitchener asks for a» knur goad trackers as possible to be inelodM. Beeeived 7,10.51 p.m.' Loxoov, January 7. Lor! Kitchener denies the bMRi g< n e hat the officers Steere and JLm were treacherously shot. Major-Qeaeral Elliott's keaa psjr* suit, covering 70 miles in 84 kottra, oaused tbe diepewal of De Wefe font. Twenty of Trichard'e commando isnrreodered at Middleburg. OAPTTOK BY OONOTABULaKT.

Beotived 7, IMB p.m. Loir*)*, January 7. The Beresford Constabulary eagtoEtd in central Orange Colony Fie&CtfMl Leroux and 84 men. FieM-OotMl Pretorias and 10 men were killed. our eibhSjmwthwbit. WiLUvanm, January 7. Oolonel D ivi*s has come to ton, and will agiio consult withtSo Premier with retard to the ofxnwijfl, of the Eighth Contingent. Chbotohcboh, Jar uary'7. '' Several men have left aautp for . various reasons, and one was <U»m4atti ; for insubordination. The appointment of OipUm JadoNsl ofOtago to the oommandof tbeSevAa 1 : Island battalian was annourred tM« evening, sod gave gre»t eatiefaetieo in camp., Captain Jarinon wrvdi':-'. in South Afriaa in 1877,1876, and 1879 and commanded •haOtagoaad ' Southland battalion of the Fifth Oott- V tingent, bringing them btck in the) , Tagus, He also eerved io tba Boer ■'-- War of 1881 as commisstriat dnVr.

Mr. A. N. Faleoner, well known for ~ the work be did in connection wits the) : * previous contingents, hie eafeblished 4 "soldiers rest'' at Addingtoa oasnjv providing facilities for men writing "i letters. He is demons of iMdaUg- 4 gifts of illustrated paper* and tnaa*» zine», and says that men would gladly welcome gifts otv newspapers from "; various parti of the *>lony, lhay east '-'' from. >v

WtLumnov, January 7 t ; A cablegram from the Oaf* staJM that Trooper HcMahon is •tin dangerously ill. Bwell, Flown, and Lids> . head are all doing well. John W* Hills, of Kitchener's; Scouts, son of Mm Hills, of St. David-street, DtM&la, died of enteric at Heilbron on l«sV? January. The offioer oocnatanding: , Dunant's force wlwa that no Maw landers were killed in the recant fight ' of the regiment.