CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 20, 24 January 1902, Page 2

CABLE NEWS

Br Elbotbio Tblbqbahl—Qoftwow boer'wah -T---.- --. general items. FIB FKCSS ASBOOIATIO*. Lorooir, Japusry 23. The sentences passed upon Lwotmant Botha and others beVgiog to on of the Cape Uisriot Mouned Corps, for misbehaviour and cowardice ia earrendering at Doornbosch in Oe*ber have been reduced, Botha'* won* year's imprisonment, the other* to leaser periods,

CAPTURE OF MUNITIONS. Beeelvsd 84,0,56 aJB... Lomdox. January fa Colonel Oolea Brandur captured aevea of Steenbimp'A men at MagUsabwf, i and unearthed 20 barrels of gunpowder and 200 rounds of shrapnelL | The Middle Temple has struck Dr. Krause off the list of the Bar.

DE WET aUKKOUNDED. . . Received 24,1.8 s-m. London, January 23. Lord Kitchener reports that Major* Generel Methueo, io a running fight of eight miles, captured a luger with 28 Boers and mmy cattle at Bosobpoort. Major-Geneial Bruce ILfniltm in a iiight march against Botha captured 27. The Witbaok blockhouses, coaetU «uting a piralle'ogram 140 miles by 60, and enclosing Do Wet's forces, an almost completed. WwiLisaTOK, Januwy 31. It is definitely decided that tht Nor h Is and section of the Eighth Contingent lems Wellington by tba transport Surrey on Wednesday.

MEW ZBaLaNDKB'B ILL. V Wbluhotoji, January 88. The Premier has' been advi*ed bjr cable from South Africa that Oo>p'«i| Kitney and Private William Cameron were dangerously ill on the 18th and 19 ;h, inst., the former from en'orSe fever. The disease fnm wbioh Cameron was suffering U »'"■ atabd. Both men belong to the Sixth Oontiogeot. Toe same cabla me*»ago alio states that Sergeant W. lioore, Seventh Contingent, was ill of Ontario fever.

! AN M.H.R. ABKBD TO BBSIGM. Dokediw, January 38. I A requisition signed by 133 elaetora, I being practically all there an in th# I Kavensbourne district of the city electorate, has been sent to Mr Barclay, i M.H.8., asking bim to resign, as his letters in the Press applying the Vrm " iufamous " to tbe action of the Imperial Government prior to the war and its • subsequent treatment of Bow women, etc., in the concuntration camps, are reflecting upon tbe colony and our young men iu Afric . The requisitionists coosider that Hr Barclay's attitude it a direct encouragement to th» enemy, and as " itifamqgp on part of ond who ho'ds tho puhno trus', and has 'aken tbe oath of fotltf to the Empire."