CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 89, 26 March 1902, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

Br Blsctbio Thlhgraph.—Ooptbiaht BOER WAR- * GENERAL ITEMS. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, March 24. Mr Chamberlain has expressed his thanks to Mr J. S. Horsfall, of New South Wales, for hig patriotic action in raising & corps of Riverina Bushmen, j A sentry shot * German Boer' prisoner dead while attempting to escape from the camp at Bellary, Bom bay. A guird tried to suppress an affray among the Boera at Rroadbottona ramp, St. Helena. The Boeigthcii rushed the guard, who fired, wounding several and suppressing tha rising. The Stock Exchange is hopeful of peace beiDg arranged. Kaffirs are firmer in price. A weekly shipload of light cavalry horses is lewing England for Soutn Africa. All cav-.lry reservists new oo furlough have beun ordered to be examiced wi'.h a view of testing their fitness to S'<rve abroad. A prooli-matioo has issued at Pietoria fixiug the stamp duty en ehare and loan capital of companies at 7s 6d per £IOO. The Morning Post Brussels oornspondent asserts that Great Britain bas con?eDt :d -o a Dutch ambulance being provided for the use of-the Boers. The War Ofic ■ requires five hundred tons of the best Australian flour deliverable at South African ports. Sydnbt, March 24.

The troopship Manhattan has arrived from Cape Town with eight returned New Zealanders aboard. BCHALK BURGEE'S MISSION. Londojt, March 24. Mr Brodrick has informed the House of Commons that a fortnight ago Schalk Burger asked permission to pass the British lines to see Mr Steyn, and the Government immediately consented. A FAVOURABLE OUTLOOK. THE QUKBTION OF PEACS OYER i ORBS. Received 26,0.53 a.m. London, March 25. Eeuter states that a former member of the Trmevaal Government claims that after the Kuyper-Lsnsdowne correspondence was made public th« leaders sunt six emissaries by different routes wi'.h despatches informing Schalk Burger nnd Steyn of Kuyper't view that tbe moment was favourable to open peace negotiations. Schalk Burger's latent communication to iGuropj mentioned his willingness, on thj basis of the Boers retaining predomination im rural district?, and the appointment of a British Board of Administration in industrial centres, with proportional Boar representation. Other Bwr statements are that any Boer overtures should be those discussed at the meeting batwtea Lord Kitchener and the Bo'has at Middlxburgin 1901, especially legardiog to a csmplete amnesty for C&pe rebels forming a majority of the commandos in the field. The presence cf Schalk Burger at Pretoria implies that Botha's assent to the initiation of overtures rests with Burger. t&The Par's Bourses are favourably affected by the turn of events.

BTEYN VIEWED ASKANCE. POLICE FOBOBFOR ORANGE COLOKT. KITCHENER'S WEEKLY REPOhT. Received 26,1.9 am. Londoh, March 25. The newspapers are not optimistic, remembering that Steyn in tha past has resolutely opposed any suggestion in the nature of a compromise. It is unofficially but credibly stated that Schalk Burger has inquited as to the status of leaders in the event of surrender. Mr Brodrick stated that tha applies-/ tion for Bafe conduct was basod on the possibility of peace proposals. Lord Milner has issued a proclamation establishing a permanent police force for Orange Colony towns, and a Criminal Inves'igation Department is being organised. Members of the force will receive eight shillings a day, and sergeants twelve shillings. Botha, on the occasion of Emmet's capture, escaped by hiding in an ad j icent kloof. Major-General Bruce Hamilton, on the 18th, capped eighteen Boers. Lord Kitchener's weekly report states that five Boers were killed, ninety-five tiken prisoners, and sixtythree surmndertd. Three Krupp guns were discovered lit Liebenberggvlei. THE FEDERAL CONTINGENT. Received 26, 1.36 a.m. Brisbane, March 25. The transport Ibe Englishman has Bailed for tha 'Jape with the Queensland section of the Federal Contingent. Wellington, Match 25. The Cabinet last night accepted the tender of Messrs Houlder Bros, for transporting ?.h» Contingent to South Africi. The date fixed for le<v ingthe colony is the 15th April. Th ■ Sjuth Island BiUa'ion will be mobilised at Addingtoc, and erolurk a r Lyttalton, and the Njrth Inlani Battalion will embark either at W l'lngt jn or Auckland. The Premier has received advice tha* tha troopship Kant, with tbe Sjutii Is'and Bittalion of the Ninth Contingent on board, arrived at Albany yesterday. Thr. e !io:se-i were lost on the passage from Nr.w Z aland. Tne vessel was to resume her voyage to Durban last right. The Ottawa ( itizen has the following stinging comment: —" We ' oversea .dominions' hsve worked for wha"; w iiave. The British people at Horn have not fought anything but ennui and gout, for a long time. Tliey have inherited what other people worked for. If Lo :don was burned by a hostile fleet to-B><rrow some of thfs° liberal-minded Britishers would be writing to the newspapers d-fending the enemy's action and blaming their own countrymen for it. Chamberlain, Milner, and Kipli"g are the three men to day wi.o are doing the most to s'em this raaudbn tide of anemic B>ntim"nt —while the'r kin of tha nations loot on fiom af ;r and silently wonder."