CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 8, 10 January 1902, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric ■ Telegraph—Copyright - BOER WAR, GBSNKRIIi ITBMS. fSB F&IS8 ASSOOUTIOH. London, January 8. Colonel Oolen Brander at Wa'erv«l wounded twenty Bjers. Lord Kitchener ia transforming the Imperial Light Horse in f o a truly Imperial Brigade, adding squadrons from England, Canada, and Australia. Colonel Karri Davits will be the qrganiser.

At the instance of the Natiooal Burgher Scouts twenty-one of their relatives surrendered at Middleburg ,oa the 7th.

The War Office has expended £I3,OO.O t OQQ in horses since the beginning of. the war. The King h?s authorise 1 the raising of two regiments to be designated the North and South of Ireland Imperial 1 Yfomamy.

Lieutenant Haigh,of the 6th New Zealand Mounted?, is conva'eicent ind has resumed duty. General French states that police supervision in Caps Colony is confined to a triangle from Bhodes to Berkley; Pass, thenae returning t:> Rhodes. Sydnsj, January 8. v Queensland and South Australia have completed the enrolment of men | for the Contingent. j I VARIOUS MOVEMENTS. j Reoeived 10,0.16 a.m. | London, January 9. Majpr-Oeneral Elliott on tbe Sth captured nine Boers and found a destroyed Krupp gun at Kroonatad.. Lovat's dcouts surprise.! a portion of Myburg'a eommando at King's Crown, killing 00% and oaptu< ing eight, inoluding Qiminandant Neiring. Botha has reinforced De Wet at Bethlehem. Oolville's Scouts captured 13 Beers on the Swaii border,

OUR EIGHTH CONTIHfiEHT. Chbxsto&uboh, Januaiy 9. The Premier visited the Addington camp to-day, and inspaotel the mea and various arrangements. Oae hundred horsed were RlloSted, and saddhry i*sued, Eleven men, mostly from the Otago quota, ate suffering from mioo' ailments. The supplementary roll has now been finally closed.

About twenty men were examiqed at tho Guard's Olub on Thursday by Lieutenant-Colonel EJ!i», Captain Taunton, and D/ IfcOWand, and after! the tiding tw.H had been completed in .tibfcaftern on, the following ten were [chosen ftvm north Taranxki for the | Fifth and Sixth Contingent vacancies: 'W. Fleetwood (Stratford), L. Ramsey (Midhirst), E. C. King (Bawera I Mounted Rifles), J. Fitzgerald (Stratfoid, Dan'evirke Rifles), F. | Hundry (Taranaki R flea),. H.- G ■ ahara (Opujjake), G. Stimpaon (Inglewood),

D. Campbell (Hawen), T. Btoakwao (Midhirst), 0. Pugh (FiteroyJ. The men will parade at 6 45 a.m.oe Monday, at the Drill Hall, prenaratoiy to departure by the mail train for W«> lingtoa. A mob of 84 horse*, re prawn tinga those purchased in north Tuwnkibj - the Stock Department as troop feoma for South Africa, were entrained Moturoa on Thursday morning, Ani railed couth. The«e horses were selected by Mr. Douglas, Government vet, ud. Mr. Rowan, Stock At Hawera the mob were anipnwSMy 60 more selected by Mr. Diem in Mtir Turacaki. *'

It seems that we bave noi yet, beard the laat of the dispute between the New Zealand and Queensland troopass to the capture of the Maxim gun nude at the Yet River, in the invasion of the Free State, Colonel ta»erson, now in Wellington, tells the Queensland Vw sion of the affair as follows I The gWfj. : ' in question wm being worked from the top of a kopje, and the New Zealand*!* were senttoqapfcure it, Adetaohmsot of the fQaeenslanders under Colonel Eioardo saw the movement, and although they were ordered to my donga theydisregarded the order and made off in chase, and then it became a race in wbioh the fastest nan would win. In (hie reeptct, theAus* tralians had the best ot it, for they had a champion mile runner , named Di'Dottala amongst them, and <b* the gun first, and claimed It /u Q.ieepsland, But what the New Zaulaiiders lacked in speed they made up in of wit, for after argubg the point with " Mao," they got him to agree that it should be a joint capture, and then' while he was away citohing a Boer hone, tb6y bundled the gun ivto a waggon,, and that ia the laat fte Queenilanders saw of it. Their Go- r„ • vernment ia, however, making tq/m suntatlons to the authorities abookfl with h view to getting a noognitim of their share in the transaction. De Wet's order to his followsn to retard the construction of blookbOQMM at all costs is ample proof of thegnai • utility of these oorrugatod«inn and gravel structures. Whea Locd Kitchener took overthe supreme mMMI in Bouth Africa, he felt certain thai the measur«s t hen in force, which «n* tailed -the garrisoning of various oaotres far removed from the railway, would not futther the genant, psoification, while it might indaoe the Boers to tn»k» daptrtte The alternative sohean,.. which conlnended itself to him wt, ia • ■ the ficst plaoe, to main hu mitwar 4 • communications absolutely secure, ana then to steadily reclaim the country bf pushing out from the secured base for* nished byt&e permanent way*, la this we had the birth of the Mooirhonee system, wbioh is now in vogmt, and which has reached dimetmoas whioh are hardly retlieed here. Fifteen months ago the blookhoose was pmtiticaMy unknown. The railway lines at important points were defended by field-works built bjr A troops wbioh, though quits adequatrto protect the immedicte vulnerable vininity, left large stretches open to attau, Majqt Bice, 0.K., then invented tbe.Mockhouse, whioh at onoe found favour, and is now doing splendid work, in addition ' to releasing many men for ofardaty, DeWet evidently knows thsivniue,