BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 81, 12 April 1902, Page 3

BOER WAR.

VABIOU3 ITBUS. PKB FKBSB ASSOCIATION. London, April 10, Mr Gerald Balfour, speaking at Leeds, said that personally be was not sanguine as to the results of the Bo*r leaders' consultation in South Africa. The terms offered in March, 1901, regarding the future status of the Transvaal and Orange Colony, were still open. Btyoad that the Government •as not prepared to go at present. Mr Long, speaking at Newington, «aid the Government was determined «ot to permit diplomacy to imperil the great sacrifices of the war. Ixird Spencer, in a speech at Lincoln, urged an amnesty to rebels, Wty abolition of martial law, early self governnunt, ans a liberal expenditure on farms, but admitted that independence was impossible. General lan Hamilton is commandthe forces operating against Delarey. The delegates of General Botha have fceen conferring at Klerksdorp since Monday, and are now awaiting Delarey and Steyn. The transport Manchester Merchant, with 267 South Australian and Queensland soldiers, has sailed from Natal for Albany. Received 11.1J.40 p.m. London, April 11. Mr Ohauiberlain, replying to a question whether burghers and others would fee banished after tbeir safe conduct expires if they fall into the hands of the British, said the proclamation dealing with banishment would remain in operation in the Gape. The Union Castle, Clare, and other South African shipping lines and the City Hall and Harrison companies, aggregating 600,000 tons gross,' are ■combining with a view togivinga better and more frequent service between Britain and South and East Africa. Lord Stanley states that 450,000 small arms and 240,000,000 rounds of ammunition have Itaei issued to the Bouth African Be i vice. GATHERING OF BOKB T.ttAirßßH Sefleived 11,11.40 p.m. London, April 11, . Commandant Botha has joined Schalk Burger, Kroga, Jacobs, Van Waldec,. Reitz, and Lucas Meyer at Klerfesdorp. Mr Steyn, with Generals De Wet, Delarey, and three members of the late Free State Government have Iso arrived there, to confer with them. The newspapers urge the Government not to permit communications between the Boer leaders at Klerksdorp and Mr Kroger. Beuter states that sixty Boers were captured in an e*stward drive in nortb-r ast Orange Colony, and twenty more at various places in the Transvaal. Received 12,1 m.m. London, April 11. Mr Bennet Burleigh, Daily Telegraph correspondent, wires thut Major - General Hamilton pursues Kemp's commando, and the British combination columns are proceeding well, TENTH CONTINGENT. Wellington, April 11. The troopship Drayton Grange arrived in the stream jußt before dark. It haajjbeen decided ~co postpone the North Island battalion's departure until Monday. The citizens lunch to the troops will take place to morrow as previously arranged. Gisborns, April 11. Private advices from South Africa state that Trooper E. Richardson, of Gisborne, is recovering from a bad attack of enteric. Richardson tried several times to get into New Zealand contingents, but word of enrolment reached him too late. Eventually he paid his own passage across, via Australia, and joined the Canadian Scouts, with whom he bad plenty of hot work.