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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 9, 11 January 1902, Page 2

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BT KbIOTBtO TKLBORAPH.—OOmiCUR. BOEiWAR. GENERAL ITUW. (fib rans AimxsAsioir.) Londok, January*. The extension of blockhouses hat given General Bruce-Hamilton' » firmer grip of the Eastern Transvaal. General Botha is coooentratiojr his fores in the vicinity of Monfome, Grobelaar at Inblszacye, .and Oanahauser at Bab&nabgo. The oembiaed forces are estimated to number 1260, | with three gun*. * I Concentration camps to hold 3000 i people ere being oonstruojbed at Port | Elizabeth. . j The Government is purchasing vast traots of land in south-east Orange ; Colony. V j Hans Bauer, brother of an ix-Mlnk--tor- of- Gape- ho j saw an application lorm for admission |to citizenship' of the United South Afriom Republic. A hundrM and 1 eighty thousand were printfti in Poland and forwarded to the £oor leadfrs frfae to the war. The following latest lies jxsWishrd ,in -the German Press appear in ' the Krutt ZeUunff'.—"Kiutoibmc'4 «• : called prisoner* inohraYafed\f/*m>ns, women, and Kaffir servant*, >Xftehener h«a organised entira roaWtndos of Ksfflrs. 1 ' > X Gieat Britain's grant'to Germany deported from South Africa nor* tkaa\ covered their material claims and left something for moral damages, whiea Germany has distributed., ■ ■'

9 , BOKBB BKaDT TO oUBRBtfPia. i OPTIMIBTIO SPIgOH ST p LORD MILNKR, Received 10, 11.8 p.m. ■ Loitdok, January 10, The burghers show an increasing in* ' olination to surrender. It is rumored at Btandertun that \ there will be a general surrender of ' Transvaal Boers on the 15th.' - ' Lord Milner, speaking at a banquet ' at Johannesburg, said the situation ; was steadily improving, and a hopeful feeling abounds, as the burs'ing' of 1 storm clouds e'eated the air. It wan 1 only inconceivable folly and mis* management that led to the repetition! 1 of disaster, though tome were ctill \ striving to preserve the old political 1 duullism, in substance, if not in form. Despite the pro-Botn, Great Britain w<B firmly determined not to tie cheated of the results of the war. A PLOT WITH A 810 PROGRAMME TEE WAR CLOSING. Keostwd 11, 0.26 am. Lohsoh, Janu.ry 10 The Daily Telegraph's oorrei.pond.ent states with reference to tbe plot,diteovered in Johannesburg in December, that it was batched by 300 foreigner!, who Were to have the assignee of Commandant Kemp aod 1000 men ambushed outside the town. It wa« proposed to treacherously murder m*nt> bera of the Band Rifles and the polio*, captuie or kill Loids Kitch-ierand Milner, bum Jobanne*bu g, and flee to the moun aia". They hoped tbu« to compel Britain to sue for peace. Sixty arrests, were made. Lord George Hamilton, 'peaking «t Ealing, said the newa received by the Government was satisfactory, »n.d the war was rapidly dosing, J .

.'J" ,'., A WILD-GOOSE <JHASB.W TOW ZEALAND CASUALTIES. Received 11,0.26 a.m Londoh, January 10. Dr. I. B. Clarke, ex-M.P. for Caithness, after consulting with Boers on ft* Continent et<rts for America to wge President Reowelt to intervene. Casper Jacobus,'lately a representative for Jansenville in the Cape Assembly, has been committed for trial on a charge of treason. The New Zealand MountedV casualties at Zwarwater on 3rd hut. were: Sergeant-Major Sydney Smitb, killed; -■ Lieutenant James Mitchell, SergeantMajor Charles Montague L«wio, Oorjwral Charles Ernest Griffiths, and # ftivste Llewellyn Clarke, severely if* ' Winded. ' Colonel AJlenby has recovered the second gun captured from Colonel Benson attbe Brakensls&gte reverse, hidden in aepruit at Bethel. OUR EJGHTfIMNTINGENT. rOLONXL DAVIBS AOOEPWJ Tttß COMMAND. Wmuatrroir, Jarfuary 10. Lieutenant-Colonel Davits has accepted the command of the Eighth ■Contingent. Captain Bingley, at pre■sent Adjutant in Canterbury, is to be Brigade Major, and Captain Mathews and Sergeant-Major Rogers are to be Staff officers. Captain Bartlett will command the North Island Battalion, with Captain Poison as second in command. 4 Cbubichuroh, January 10. . Routine work was carried out at the camp to-day. At a muster parade 466 , men. were present, excluding staff dicers. Twenty-seven hones arrived foom Wellington to-day, and more are expected to-morrow. The announeement that Msjor Chaytor was to be placed in command of the South Island battalion, with Cap'ain Jarkson as aeeond,,has caused some disappointment, as the tatter's general South .African experience was considered to give him the prior claim. Captain Bingley fas been off. red the position __ ■ Tbl tvming Pott says that private advioes from Addington state that r ;. Major Crawsbaw, who was mentioned J ,M likely to have charge of the South ; '.-« .Island Battalion of the Eighth Contingent, failed to pass the medical examination. Major Crawshaw, who belongs to Timaru, was twice struck by a ballet wl*le serving in the Transvaal with a previous contingent.