CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 27, 1 February 1902, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

By Elbotbic Tblbgbaph.—Go ithtght. BOER; WAR. : PEACE O^HRTPRKS, . FEB PRESS ASSOOIATIOKj. Lonsob, January 30. The Earl of Hafbury, Lord Chaneellor, fpakirg at Dutney, skid that althongh »he war \IU still proceeding and the Boer delegates repudiated the idea of peace, yet piw-Boots continued to advice the offer olf terms. He believed ia doing what (we are doing with >ll our might. Thel Government w. s determined to end jthe war, but to so end it that it would nSVer recur. Th«>y intended to bring ejbout, not an insufficient, but a lastirig pe?cf>. Eagerness on the part of tne Maoris to help was an additional tribute to Great principles M freedom, equality, and kindness to ivery ,race under the flag.

The House of Commons' Committee j acquits British officers of bribery and corraption in connection with >Bungarian remounts, though it admits there was blundering. ThOy.DaQy Mail is the only pap<r claiming to know that - Dr. Van Kuyper asked for a safe conduct for a Dutch Commission to assure tne fighters that European intervention is hopeless and further struggle futile. >

Dr. Yan Kuyper represented the despairing negative atjkitude . f the delegates, who justify their obstinacy by citing the fighters stilil in the field.

Beater stys ';nat Dr. .Yan Kuyper's suggestion was merely' tentative in order to facilitate the conclusion of the war. The general feeling in LondoD, however, is that nothing will be achieved until the Boer belligerents intimate a desire to negotiate for terms. The Times, Standard, amd Telegraph denounce the News intriguing with the enemy as perilously m ar, a legal offence, ard as imperilling the Government. They instance Newfoundland renewing the modus vin mdi it connection with the French fisheries dis-

pate as a contribution towards aiding the Empire in time of war! Adelaide, January 30. The Governor bas cabjled to Mr Chimberlain the resolutions carried by a patriotic m feting, upholdilnp the Government's attitude in South Africa. Helboukke, J nuary 30. .Mr Beid called attention in the Federal House to Lord Hopetoun's speech at tha Natives' association gathering Ips* week in whict he justified Mr Barton ovur the Soiith African Contingents Mr Isaac sen forth the constitutional issue involved, declaring that the Governor-General must r,ot, assume rt-Fpor sibili'y in , Lmtalian politics, at d must not even by Occident trespass on ground between Ministers and their responsibility. Aft'-r discussion Mr Beid withdrew a |m■ t on to suspend standing orders to loqsider the matter, i