BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 85, 21 March 1902, Page 2

BOER WAR.

GENERAL 1X11(8, PIE rBBH iUOOUTtOI, London, March 19. General Bruca HamilUn'g tuoowu is due to a retrograde ciiouitous march, riding wry light. fjmmett's capture waa mad* by the [National Burgher Sceu'a. | The mortality in the concentration cimpa during February waa only onethird of the January rate. Lord Methuen's temperature ia norma , and he ia suffering ne pain.

ANOTHER FEDERAL CONTINGENT. Received 20,10.18 Melbourne, Match 20. In the Federal House, Mr Bsrtdo . announced that he had received froea ■ the Imperial Government a comaaoaication intimating that another Oe*monwealth Contingent, two thousand strong, would- be gratefully moepted. It was the intention of the Goieniment to comply with .the request.

KRUGBR'S LATEBT KIMABKABUE BILISF. ! Received 80. IMS an. < Paris. March SO. The newtjnipn Le Matin publiehe# a remarkable statement, dictated bjjf Mr Kruger, showing that' ha atilt reckons upon f direct Divine intervention on bctalf of the Boers, who *re God's elect. ,It is impossible .for them to surrender their, liberty without repudiating God and meriting JHa maledictions. Kruger prays thnt God will dispel the blindntas of the Knglub. FURTHER mm ZBASjAND' OAMTAU TIBS. A BANOUINK 8088 GENERAL. Received 21, 0.19 a.m. London, March 20. Private Archibald McLean waf billed at Helspruit, and Private J. McKay dangerounly, Oorporil G. N. Langford and Privates H. Harvey and E, O, Bolt Slightly wounded. Ail belong to the Seventh New Zealand era. Renter's agency state" that latf week's d> ive »eet r< suited in the capture of 127 prisoner!. Toe columns we now in touob with ' General De Wet and Mr Steyn, in tbe Hoofstad district, west of the main Use of railway. . General Emmett df dares it is impea* eible to starve the Boers; and that the British must capture all of them,

NEW ZEALAND OAfiUAMm - ' Wellington, March SO. The following cablegram haa bean received from the authoritita at Cape Town, relative to c&eutlties in New Zealand Contingents Seventh Contingent : Killed at Helsprutf, Trooper Aicliibald McLern (Hamilton); d»ngfirously wfcunded, Traoper John MoKay (Rivalton, Southland); slightly wounded, Corporal 0. N. Lapgford (Qeraldine), Trooper Henry Harvey (Haldane, Southland), Private E. 3. Boult (Pahintua). Eighth Contingent: Trooper J. I. Robinson is dangerously ill of pneumonia at Piuetown Bridge. The following members of the Sixth Contingent are ill with enteric fever at Charleetown: George Walker, Leonard Law. John Considine, of the Seventh Contingent, is still suffering from bia gunshot wound. The Gov. rnor haa received a cable* gram from the authorities at Cape Town stating that Lieutenant Taylor had slightly improved on the 16th. The condition of Captain Markharowaa still serious.

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The Premier hsa received the follow* i ing telegram from the Governor:— . The following has bten reoeivedfrom • the Senretary of State for the Cfttonief, dated 18th: —" His Majesty's Govern* ment gratefully accept tho offer of the Tenth of 1000 men made by the New Zealand Government, They sincerely appreciate this further pr..of of the patriotism of the people of New Zealand, ai.d recognise the invalu* able moral support afforded to them in their prosecution of the war by. the cooperation o'f his Majesty's dominions across the sea. He ia sending large reinforcements from this country who will feel proud to fight side by aide with their New Zealand comrad»a, who have once more shown their splendid quality in the heroic defenoe they made in the recent engagement." Wellington, Match 20. In view of the shortness of time available for the mobilisation of the Tenth Contingent the Cabinet haa decided that it must be despstched from two of the four larger centres. MORE REMOUNTS FROM NEW ZEALAND. Wellington, Maroh 20. Colonel Holdaworth and Lieutenant Hopkinson, Imperial remount offioera, have come to New Zetland to purobaav seven hundred horses for the War Office. Tbey oxptct to obtain that number in six weeks.