CABLE MEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 29, 4 February 1902, Page 3

CABLE MEWS

By Electric Telbgripi .—Ooptkight. _BOER WAR BOERS JOINING TUB B!{ TISH J'OROES; PEE TEESS ASSOC tATKWJ. London, l j?ebr lary 2. Colonel Rimirjgton ot Thursday surprised ak»ger in the nortl Orange Colony and captured 22 of th e enemy, and sixteen waggons of t rovisi ons. j Three hnndred Boers joired Vilofnen's fccou's during the week Many surrendering burghers a|e requesting to be permitted to retain thbir arms and horses for a similar purpose. The duaths are recorded of: Private Thomas Drannan (Seventh New Zealander) from chleroform poisoning, and Serg?eat Moore (Sixth NewlZeajanJers) from enteric. I I Mr. Fischer, interviewed, inserted that Steyn in a recent order to t is commandos staffd, " We drain thi cup to the dregs, though we believt in our finel success." THE ORANGE COLONY COMMANDOS. ANOTHER SHARP SKIRMISH iVITH THE BOERS. NEW ZBALANDERS TO THE F3RE. Received 3,11.15 p.m. London, February 3. Prisoners report that a pojnpom killed ten Bjers on the 19th at. Lieben-bc-rgsolei. Fourtren were captured at Blaawkeichspruit. I Except a few hundred in the South of Orange Cfclony, all the Freo SOaten in the field are confined to the north eastern Orange districts. They show plenty fight, though constantly bustled. Rains prevent the columns from heliographiog. \ A sharp engagement took on the 25th at Leeuwspruit, with ;i por-

. tion of De Wet's forces and Cotnel Girrett's column,comprising tbe Siuth African Light Horse, New Zealanders, r Queenslanders, Bushmen, and&Yeo--8 manry. A hundred of wpels 1 commando rushed, and ■Live in the South African Wight Horae'a reirgmrd. Seventy of |)e '[Wet's bodyguard, wearing British | cavalry cloaks and under cover of heavy ' j rain, opened fire, while another foree ' | on a hill in the vicinity charged boldly 1 on the Light Hn»-*e, hoping to captune '■their pompon. The New Zealandetjs ' with a Maxim and a pompon scatter?p ' the Boers when- within 500 yardsl Five were killed and many wounded ' The British loss was slight. De Wef ' with six men fled up the Liebeabejrg-i soter river. j QUEEN WILHELMINA. DISAPPOINTED IN KRUGKB. i Received 4,1.8 a.m. j London, February 3.1 i Queen Wilhelmina is greatly dis- ] i satisfied with Mr Kruger'd irrecoocilableness, I Vienna reports declare that Lold Linsdowce's r*>ply to Dr. Van Kuyp|r asserts that only unconditional surrender can be concidered.