CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 66, 11 March 1902, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

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BQER WAR UENERAL ITEMS. PSB VBES3 ASSOCIATION.] London, March 9. The Bavarian has s»i'ed from Durti&n for India with 1000 Bo<-r prisoners. The Natal Assembly s'rongly favours compulsory military service. Thirteen hundred head of stamps are working on tbe Band, but native labour is scarce. A farther batch of Boer prisoners ' at Hawkin's Island, Bermuda, as a protest against thn continuance of the war, took the oath of allegiance to Great Britain. A- party of other prisoners thereupon attempted to drown them in Great Sound, but the military guard frustrated the attempt and the assailants were imprisoned. AN IMPORTANT FIND. BOTHA IN EVIDENCE AGAIN. SUSPENSION OF THE CAPE CONSTITUTION. ReceWed 10,10.56 p.m*. London, March 10. Colonel Rimington found some im • portant coriespoadence, large quanti ties of wheat, six hundred pom-pom shells, and a mill complete. He aho collected seventeen wounded Boers, a number of waggons, and fifty other Boers and brought them to Bloemfontein. Botha, with eiaht handred men, is laagered at his farm, 25 miles northeast of Vryheid. A proclamation issued at Pretoria amends tbe law relating to registration of deeds at<d provides for the resumption and transfer of property bb from April 15th. Forty five progressive Cape co - moners signed the petition for the sus pension of the constitution. Six other* are expected to sign it. Received 11,1.2 a.m. London, M«rch 10. Mr Eruger declar s that the Kuype r correspondence has produced no impression on the Boer Generals. Rots, i f the Canadian Scouts unr?e Colonel Rimington, found Di WetV cave, Wellington, March 10. Colonel Porter cable* to the Premier that all the wcunded of the Seventh Contingent are doi> g well. The Governor has received cable advice from the casualty department, Cape Towp, that the following casualties are reported for the first tim in the half-yrarly returnAt Botha's P«3S on 27th Dacerabe", severeiv wounded, 4453 shr> n ing-smi h T. W Allan; 4282 W. Bo v e-'son, at Bastard's Drift, on 27 h R. Setb.

A WELLINGTON PRO-BOER SOCIETY. The Wellington Peaceand Humanity Society has resolved : (1 1 Ti at thisociety protests against the stipulated unconditional surrender o r tte Boeis as cruel and aii'l believe that if puwsteri in it wiU te - d to prolong tho war in<lesni e'y; '2) that tl'is eocie'y deploys the feufnl 10-s of !i r " in this us an*? 00-sixers it, the duty of «ve>y ight ihitking person to advocate p»Hce; (3) that this- society deplores the fac' that so many t"nf heis of Chris'iHnity, namely bishop-, 'nd preaches of all kinds ran so far forget their calling as to advooite war <■ ml th<3 d' of th'ir fellow men ; (4) that we despise those politicians end o'hers who are continually bragging ahouc the w-r f .r their own glorification and s lfi-h interests ; (5) that] we consider money raised by public subscription s'noulfi'be devoted to 1 "- iog sufFt rers by the war, n.rid not for prais« an 1 hrag ; (6) that we appeal to the Press of New Zealand to teU the truth about, the war, so as not, to keep the public in which, with jingoism, leads to destruction.