CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 61, 4 March 1902, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

Bx Klwjtbio Telegraph.—Copyright ♦ i BOER WAR, —-„ ■ » ttO&K DETAILS. PBB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] London, March 2. j Lord Kitchener reports that the effectiveness of the fire of tbe New Zealanders and Australians is shown by tbe fact that a large proportion of the cattle which were captured were wounded. The order of the column was from east to west, Rawlinson's Nixon's Byng's, Rimington's and Keir's. The wouodtd New arc doing well. Fmther rasu.lties were : One officer killed and four men wounded. General Rawlinson gave the surrounded Boers »n>) hour's armistice to dec'ile wcift-her they would surrender or fight; 437 yielded, including John W'ssels, a prominent leader. The reserve equadron of the Seventh Dragoon Guards at Alderehot, also the Depot Squadron of the Sixteenth Lancers have been warned to hold themselves in readiness to embark for South Africa. Several Griq;i*laod Wost farmer* have received n--<renee9 of four and three years' imprisonment for acting ae Boer officials. Oolleton's Constabulary surprised a lagaar at Batlaroville on the 19th and captured sixteen, including Landdrost Rodemeyer. They also captured seven tuhscquently. Commandant Scbeeper's father has surrendered at Wonde; fuutoin. The columns in the Ficksburg district captured tea Boers and 3000 cattle. Wellington, March 3. The Governor has been advised that Trooper Robert J. Geary (Portohello, Otago), Six'h Oontingpnt, is reported dangerously ill of enteric at Wakkerstroom, Tbe Premier has received the following cable from Lord Hopetoun. G^ve- - - por-General of — "While dop'oring the heavy ca'ualties and deeply sympathising wi*h the relatives of those slain in the recent fight in South Africa, I congratulate New Zea-1 land on the magnificent bravery of her sons, and venture to predict that 'heir heroic work will do much to terminate this terrib'e war. Australia is verv proud of her neighbour's gallant boys." Mr Soddon has sent a copy of Lord Hcpetoun's message to the relatives of the fall«n and wounded. Mr Lewis, Premier of Tasmania, cables :—" Tasmania sympathises with New Zealand in tbe 'o c s of *o many of her gallant eons, at. the same time congratulating her "pnn the m-gnifiVeot and successful s*and mad" 'iy her troops against enormous odds." NINTH CONTINGENT. Wellington, Mnrch 3. The troopship Kent is due in WelHng'on from Sydney on Thursday, and after shipping ("tore?, fodder, provisions, and bunker roal, and 15,000 carcases of mutton, she will go to Port Chalmers to receive the southern bat. Mion oF 'h* Ninth. She will sail for South Africa on the 12' h. The mutton is the fii st instalment < f 30,000 carca<w, which it w understood have been bought bv a representative of the syndicate that s"curod the much discups»d army sunplv con ract. The second lot will go in tbe Devon a week later. Auckland, March 3. Veterinary-Surgeon Captain Matthews, who goes with the con'ingenI', 1 ', expresses himself highly pleaded with the 497 hors's now in camp. This afrernoon Captain O'Brien was engaged in appointing non-commis-siored officerp, a great dral of cars being t»ken in their selection. Therf are sixteen farrier-sergonnts to go with the hattalion, and, subject to the ap proval of the officer commanding, tbesi have been selected.