CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 89, 17 April 1902, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

BOER WAR

By Klbctbio Thlbgbaph.— Copyright

♦—«.— VARIOUS ITEMS. FSB PRESS ASSOCIATION, j London, April 15. ! Colonel Golan Branderbas tightened the cordon round Bayers' commando The Bulawayo-Zambesi section ot the Cape to Cairo railway will be opened next year. A five hundred feet bridge is being built ov«<r the Victoria fal's. Sidney, Api il 16.

A* the Fubu r bon municipal meeting an Alderman moved, that the Antiwar League petition be sent to the rubbish tip and there dealt with. Another Alderman objected, bfcauie the tip was situated in his ward. The matter was compromised by consigning the petition to the waste paper basket.

THE VELDT MURDER 6. OF?I r I*T. ACCOUNT TO THE FEDERAL HOUSE. Melbourne, April 16. The official account of tbe execution of Australian officers has been tabled in the Federal House. It discloses no new face beyond that the sentences ef Morant and Handcocks, who were court-martialled on four counts ef muid-r and found gui'ty on three, were accompanic d in two instances by recommendations to mercy.

DXiiARKT SHORT OF MUNITIONS. RESULTS OF THELATE SWEEP. Received 16,10.17 an. London, April 9. General Delarey has only one gun left, and little ammunition.

Tn three weeks the Boers in Western Transvaal bave lost five hundred in killed, wounded, and prisoners.

Colonel Oolen Brooder's column captured Commandant Beyers'laager, but it is feared that Beyers and n few others escaped by scaling a precipitous range.

Major-General Bruee rJaualton'i column has arrived at Standerton.

During the sweeping movement in the Eastern Transvaal he killed, wounded and captured 145 Boers. Private B. Lyness, Eighth New Zealand Regiment, was severely injured in the Machavie railway accident.

KEK"WIOH'b FIGHT AT ROOMUL Received 16,10.17 p.m. London, April 16. Details of the fight at Inehivc.l (?Roornul), states that when Colonel Kefeewich's Scouts on the llth instant tapped a gentle rise they siw Commandant Kemp's force of 1500 men drawn out over a long line in close formation. Theß^rsinstantlycharg«d, thinking that Kekewich's column wu part of a thin " driving " line. | The British were dismounted, and reserved their fire until the enemy were at short range, some Boars getting within forty yards of them. Lieutenant D. Fraser, Seventh New ZesJanders, is convalescent and has resumed duty.

THI PKACB NB3OTIATIONS. SOUS OF THB BOKR DEMANDS. Received 16 10.25 p.m. Losdon, April 16. In the House of Commens, Mr B&l----four, in reply to a question, mid he would immediately inform the Houee when there was anything to communicate in regard to the peace negotiations. The Times says Mr Balfout's reply implies that the negotiotions are not progressing satisfactorily. The Boers are submitting impracticable demand*. The Daily Mail states that th° Cabinet. has refused to grant an ermisticp, and declines an amnesty <o rebels, or the withdrawal ef the banish - ■lent proclamation. The pap?r adds that the Boers are willing to abandon the demand for independence and agree to a general surrender if their farms are rebuilt and restocked, which would cost five millions, and a general nranety granted with the possible disfranchisement of rebels. They a'sode mand the withdrawal of the banishment proclamation and the earlier restoration of representative institutions than the Government contemplated.

ACCIDENT TOJ.Z "EIBHTH" SBDIOU. BKPORT AS TO THK INJTJRID. FUNBFAt. OF THB VICTIMS. UNIVERSAL SYMPATHY. Wellington, April 16, Sir Joseph Ward has nceiwd »he following cable massage from Major Pitcher at Cape Town, dated 14 h instant: —" Colonel D»»ie« wires that the principal medical officf r »t Parch«fstroom reports re men icjured in railway accident, that Whitehead and Pearson are dangerously ill, Lee, Grant, and Wbetter seriously, the others being greatly improved. The thirteen men killed were buried at Klerksdorp yesterday (Sunday.) It was a very large military funeral, and was attended by the Saforfhs, Arpyle, .and Sutherland Highlanders, Roy*l Artillery, South Welsh Borr'erers, •Commonwealth regiments, and New Zoal&od brigade, also hundreds of civilians. Great sympathy was fhown (by everyone.

Wakaptjika, Ap r il 16,

"Trooper F. S. Burne, who was kil'ed in the railway accident at Machavi?, was for nearly two years on the staff of the Eastern Extension CaWe Company here. He r«d made application to join gome previous contingents, bu* was rejected on account; of his youth. He joined the Eighth at Oristchurch, where his parents reside. He was ad enthusiastic volunteer far a couple of years and was a lieutenant' in the Christchurcb College Cadets, and when be jointd the sable (■taff he beeamo a merubar of the Nelson' Rills, a> d made light of a sixteen rrile journey to town to attend drills.

Wellington, April 16,

The troopship Norfolk, which takes the Son'-h Island Kittalion of the Tenth N.Z. Begiment to DurKin, arrived this afternoon from o. It is exported that, she will proceed to LyWelton to-tnorrow. Advicpf from Cape Town a ate that 'Sergeant BeasVy and Private Delland ■are dangerously ill of enteric.

Colonel Holdsworth and Captain "Taylor, of the Imperial Remount Denartmen f , *ccmp«n''«d by Mr E. and assisted by Mr Rowan,'of the ferock Department, selected a numhe* r>f remounts for the Imperial Army *«B Wednesday in New Plymouth.

The London Daily Express, in eomMenting on the figh". at Bothasberg, says:_«F or tnH great ., SUCCCBB 0 f Majiihn Day we owe much tn tlie paltont New Z ahnderp who died in stemming the grt=at cattle ru»-h. Every one <f tbem is an additional reason for prosecuting r.he war to a sound and final conclusion."