BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 94, 25 April 1902, Page 2

BOER WAR.

VARIOUS ITEMS. PEttPBESS ABSOCUTOW. London, April 22. Genenl Bruce Hamilton'* s»vn fohim.B have swept the country from jStandettou in the direc'ien of tb* Defagoa line. The remit is u.known, though it is fetrfil the Boers escaped. A German oji fignmsnt of • oiafortsi seat to the Blxtaifontein refugees w%» found to consist largely of fil hy, unwashed, left; oft c'otbing. Eight ladies who w«th unpacking them we;>a mad* seriously ill.

Albany, Ap il 24. The froopship Manchost°r Merchsit has arrived frem Town, «itb 291 returned sold'ers.

i A LAJtiER OAPTURMV j "A GOOD AUGORY." Received 24.10.10 p.m. ' ' London, Ap i! 2a. Colonel Rwhfort's prisoners ioclud* General Del»r«\ 's brother. A knger at Kroomkraal, in Orange [Colony, was su prised and five Bowa j killed and twenty oaptut-*d. The newspapers consider the foot of Schalk Burghtr's accompanying Stern aud Delar*y on vif-its to t.h9 western, comimndo.t is it good augury.

FEDKRAT, CONTINGENT AT DURBAN - .

Recelred24, 10.11 pm. London, April 24. The troopship Teraplemore, with « portion of 'he Austr tlian Coot'Dgent, has arrived «t Durbm.

NEW ZEA.LA.ND CASUALTY LIST. Wellington, April 24, OablograHiß received by the Governs ftate tlm"-. Lieutenant Liscelles (Napier) is not d ing«roui\y ii], p r j. v ito Walder (Auoklaud) ia progressing favourably. The condition of Lieutenan k . Neill (Dunedin) is unchanged. Priva'e 0. G. Skilling, Eighth Oon■tingen-, is dwgerously ill i.f p»ri-,t->niis at Kbrkadorp. Private J, (Holm (Southland), Sergeant Heasley and Private ". Kelland ! (Rangitata) are s'ill danger >usly ill of e. tsno. Privateß W. A. Harvev (of th» and William Ho<v»rd (Sixth)* have d»veloped fever. Pit ar,»- P.ilkle., William Qrft'fc.aod William Whiter, nil of th« Eighth Ointiiicont, ar» B'ill dnngfl r onsL ['l fr-mi iijiiiMw ceiv-d in the MtubavH rail ay accident