CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 59, 21 February 1902, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

Br KiVOißio Telegraph.—Copyright.

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GENERAL ITEMS. K FSB PBBSB ABSOOUXIOY. j London, February 19. j The strict censorship of news inl * South Africa is interpreted to mean that Lord Kitchener is organising a big move. ' * . Dr. Yon Knyper, the Netherlands Premier, is convinced that tin TWr delegates' mission to America will be fruitless. An officer in a letter states that the _ prisoners taken when General Botha's laager was cuptnred at Knapdaar declare that Louis Botha was also optired, bat not being recogniitd was placed in charge of the rearguard and subsequently escaped amid the coofusion. The inmates of the Petersburg »nd Heilbron concentration cjtnps have been cent to the coast at Durban.

* FEDERAL CONTINGENT. Received 20, 10.33 p.m. Adelaide, February 20. , Ibe local unit of tbe Commonwealth Contingent Bailed to-day in the transport Manchester Merchant. Ther* was no ceremony at the embarkation. DEATH OF A NEW ZKA LANDER. Received 20,10.40 p.m. Loudon, February 20. Ho. 3646 William Charles Edward Partridge, of Übristehurch, a member of tbe Sixth New Zealand Mounted*, hat died of enteric at Ofaarlestown. NINTH CONTINGBNT. Auckland, Februiry 19. The North Island Battalion of the Ninth Contingent are getting op well in their drill at camp. All indic»tinns are that when the month's instruction is at an end the North I*lar,d battalion will be thoroughly well trained. An experienced non-commif-aioned instructor said to-dny that, he had never known such a number of jnen under similar conditions t." have bpen on the wfco'e to well conduced. Lieutenants Bracr, and Grace, from South, have arrived Kfld are doing duty, A considerable .number of men »r;> temporarily suffering from dysentery, presumably by the change of water, the qualify of which is, however, excellent. This\fteraoon a tr<nper named Allen, from was taken to the hospital sufferv." 1 ? from pneumonia. Fifty-five horse* "rrived to-day-from Gisborre by tbe 10 Anan. Christchuech, Febru*. r y Mr A. Jacks, engineer in char ' e r / of the railway con*' ructi <n on the V aI ~ para-Cheviot Ro.-t.ion, has been appointed lieutenant-paymaster of tbe South Island Ba'talion of tbe Ninth Contingent, and leaves early to take np his duties. ,