BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 12, 15 January 1902, Page 3

BOER WAR.

■? UKNERAL ITBMS. ?-'r: " ■ - J . .. PMBS ABBOCXATIOS, • "' Lohdon, January 13. A Boer doctor states that duriDj Christian Botha's fight with Majo Vellentin, forty-two Boers ware ki led And seventy wounded. The firms Ermelo correspondent sap ithat the latest successes show th* rapid night marches and surprises an e onl y meaDß of catching the tear® fiaera, and ending the war. De Wtft ehief officers, by fivi - against three, decided to fight tw< months longer. A. camp for the detention of Boe: prisoners ia being formed at Antigu* in tin West Indies. New Yobk, January 13. The Chicago Transvaal League "which includes a number of judges au< Swwyctv, has appealed to Presiden Koosevelt to stop die shipment of horse 4utd moles from New Orleans, to en force neutrality, and stop the war. Sydnit, January 14. Colonel Williams will accede to Lor Kitchener'a request that he should re turn to Swth Africa. BOKB LEADER KILI.KR Beceived 14,11,15 p.m. Loudon, January 14 Colonel Wing inteicepted Piet Vil joen's letter announcing t hat Genera : . .jk.Oppennan, the chief leader Of thi 'Soiith-Eafltern Commandos, had beei kjifed in an engagement with Colone Plaoaer. Colonel Wing found a gravi with Opperman's initials on a cross.

FIRM XrJTTDDK OF THE OAFX PRKMIKK. ... . Bec«ived 15,0.16 &.m. Loudon, January 14. Sir J. Gordon Sprigg, Oapa Premier, in the course of a speech said that Britain most accept no terms—only surrender—and than give the Beecs just and generous treatment. ■ ■■. ■ •;—i— i THE BIBHINGHAX BIOT. Received 15,025 pm. Lobimw, January 14. At the inqaeet on the man lulled in the riot at Mr. Lloyd George's pro-Boer meeting at Birmingham on December 18th, a vecdicc of manslaughter was returned ayiinst an unknown policeman.