CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 19, 23 January 1902, Page 2

CABLE NEWS

By Blbcf'bio Tslbobapb.—Ooi nxmr. boeb'wab. * GENKRAL ITKMB. m runs moautm. Park, January 21. In the Chamber of Depatie*, ||. Delcasse said it was impptifrfo for Fnnce to mediate with reopect to South Africa, foe any attempt to «<- fo'ce mediation inevitably mean l : war. Lo»don, January 21. Dr. Leyds his protested -to ths Powers that tbe execution" of Soheepsm was agsusioation. Lord Kitchener's weekly report eayt that ooatinuouw rains int»rrnpt*d operations; 31 Boers were killed, 18 wuoded, 170 prisoners tiksn, and 41 surrendered. Three thousind Yeomtn hive bran recruited,* instead of the 2000 foe. Stout, Jtnniry 22. Both •hemoroiog papers endorse tint •ending of a f nrt her contingent. <too#pt the c.ll for more troops mm* indicitioi of a determined effir* %a Gnish the w*r before the ooronmieo.

NEW ZEALAND iR3 WOCNDKD. THK COST OF THE WAR. Heoelved 22, 10.83 p.m. London, January 22. Privates James Considtoe and William Ba*w, of tbe Seventh New Zea> liud Mouaede, have been wounded <t Ohirlfstown. There are neatly 5000 blo-.khon<e* in the Transvaal and Orange Colonies i'-q iiri»ig 50,000 troips t® garrisoj thuin. In the House of Ooranma, Sir Michael BAiks-Beaeh afoud tbe war Ind cw. £46.300,000 from April to D>cemb?r last. BiaHTH AND NIMH OONTINGBNTB. •Wellington, January 22. T' q North laknd section r.f the Nuth Contingent will be mobilised and equipped at Auckland. The Governor has rtcived tbe following reply to the message forwarded to the Secretary of State ooaveyiog the resolution carried at the publie in* on Fiiday:—"The Gweroment and the popleof theUuitel Kingdom greatly appreciate the repudiation by a meeting of citisws of New ZwlsmL' address d by the Prime Mioietatyw 'he shndQra on the British Foraee in South Africa, and on tbe conduo* of tbe war. The approval of a oolooy wf icH has shown such «acri6oe* for tbe Empire and i's Sovereign is the sou roe of the greatest sa l infection to bis Majes'y's Government. I desire at the same time to express my p-traoni] thanks for the expression of confidence in the second iv solution.—Clamber* Uin." Wanoanui, Januaty 21. Captain Oharlin Sommervilc, who lieutenant in the Second Uontlngent, and wounded in the arm, has received a cimmigjion as o&ptain in the Eight", p-nbibly in the S .u-lt loUnd division, Wbllikotos, January 22. The Premier bop«a to send the North IsUnl batallion nfth« Kighth Contingent. aw»y n- xt Werln wl y. Jfc is moß6lik. lv that c.miition< of enlh*. men-, will be revUel ia ie»p 0, of th» Ni< eth Contingent so ax to rfr* a. chance to men, who, while nth rwi«i drable, failed to come Qti< eve jhe mimjnum

Private Arthur Sadler, of the Taranaki Rides, left by tbe mail train on Wednesday morning for Wellington, having bron chosen to fill a vacmcy in the Eighth Contingent. I Lieutenant 6. D. Shera, mentioned in the despatches for gallantry by Lord Kitchener, is J. D. G. Shera, son of Mr. Shera, formerly member for Auckland City. The affair occurred on the! Swaziland harder. Shera reported a Boer laager in a dense bush, and was sent with 30 New Zealand and 30 Queensland Bushmen, and destroyed and made important captares. J