BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 100, 29 April 1902, Page 3

BOER WAR.

| VARIOUS ITKM&. London, Apul 27. Eight Cape rebels at Aliwal North received sen'encts varying from three months to a year, and in addition fines of from .£250 to £SOO. Sydney, April 28. f . The New Zealand troopers, who misled the Drayton Grange, and have since bean quartered at the barracks* joined the Norfolk. The band of the j National Guard fareivelled them, i _ Melbourne, April 28. i Arrived : Troopship Custodian, from the Oape with 500 returned Victorian Fifth Contingent. Adelaide, April 28. , The Manchester Merchant brought 244 of the South Australian Fifth and j Sixth Contingents from the Oape. DELAKBY RETURNS TO KLERK6DORP Received 28,11.26 p.m. London, April 28. I General D larey, after a meeting of , his commandos, returned to Klerksdorp oa Saturday. This is considered an encouraging sign. THE NORFOLK'S CONTINGENT. ( SENSATIONAL CHARGES OF DRINKING AND GAMBLING KKFUTED. Received 28, 9.50 p-.ni; Sydney, April 28, The day the Norfolk arrived an evening paper published a tomewbat sensational statement regarding alleged gambling and drinking on the tiaisport. Inquiries made at the time showed there «as little if any ground for the statement. To-day the same paper published a letter from Sergeant* Major Pleaaante, denying that there was any gambling aboard, or at any rate 'only a little of a harmless dcs* cription, meant to pass away the idle hours of a tedious voyage.

He adds, ''l have been on several I troopships conveying troops to and from South Africa, and can say the men aboard tbe JSoifolk weie excep fcionally well behaved. There was gambling am -n«Bttheai trmu any other C"n iagenr, that 1-fc New Zealand."

A S'toad latter from Rev. Luxford, chaplain, s'a'es that the chat ges were not only unfair, but untrue. He was please-! at the sobriety of th« men, the majority of whom were te«totalltrs. Gtnblirg was not prewtant, and 'h? ordbr pohii'itiug it was, with very few excptijOH, willingly obfyed. . THK DRAYTON GRANGE Wellington, April 28. Sir Joseph Ward hasr>ceived the following c*ble mi-ssage from Mr Seddon, dared Alnsiiy, Munday 6 p.m. •.■?-" Ail wi-ll in health, and nir party, with ihe officers and mm, aie tirst-iate. Loss five hors> 8 during' ough weather in the Australian Bight." Another message states that Mr ,Seddon had a very cordial reception. Tbe Drayton Grange leaves for Durban a midnight.

Wellington, Ap.il 28. I The Government has received advice of the arrival of the Devon at Durban lan Friday with tbe North Island section of the Ninth Contingent. The [regiment will camp at Durban for three weeks, and then proceed to Newcastle.