BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 103, 3 May 1902, Page 2

BOER WAR.

VARIOUS 1TBM&. PES PBESS iiSOCHTIOS, London, May 1, The conference of delegates will be. held at on the 15tb May,* not 25th as previously cabled. The Tbe*tr« at Johannesburg baa been reapeued. THH PEACE QUESTION. DS WET ADMITS .STRUGGLE HOPELESS. WOMKN CLAMOURING FOR PKAOff, Received 2, 10.25 p.m. London, 11 ay 2. The Daily TdtgrapKa corre pondeot s : a'ej that the delegates are pitting the issue honourably before th commandos, without reserve. General D» Weo admi's t ha* the s'ruggln is hopeless, and the British terms reasonable and penerous. [ At some mee iugs the Boat's «rere noisy, th(.< irritoocilabl* minorities fa' I coming very heated and almost musing violence. Oonsi qutmtly the lt*td»rs inxist on voting by ballot. It is roport'-d that Gmeral Delarey and members of the Transvaal Qajernment will adhere to tLe decfcionoNßM majority. The women of th» Transv lal arc clamsuring for peace. NATAL' j CLAIMS RKSISTBD.

RBINFOROICMBNTS FOR THB FROWT. Reoelv d 2,10.61 p.m. London, May 2. Natal has claimed a portion of the Harrismith and Wede district*, undertaking of the O.- ■ ,or» Colony debt. The Administrator of Oranf e Cobny has opp sed this, as the inhabitants o 1 "- jected <-o be tran«f*rr<?d on tl • ground that it ia likely 'orauae &ndlees complications. Lo.d Milcer rnd Mr Chamberlain did not e doroe t'e tr«csf-.\ Mr Ohambcilin incurred in the *rans r er of portions of tbe Transvaal, suSject t> a fow poin's rof«rrel to a Boundary Oommis-ion The Times Kt&tes that Natal has d«» elineJ to c'da Olosi Bay to the lYant-vat-1. Ten thousand troops and *tw<i thousand h<m.es embaik for South A'rc* I during May. Wellington, May 2. The Acting-Premier has receive the j following cabin fr.un o>l'>ntl Porer, i datf d in. Ap< il 30th:—The ■ Seven l h and Ei«hth Cortiagents mobilising here, organising » brigade, j preparing the Se\ enth for return home, and for ''o concentrat on of tbe Oorojnation Oonti igcr t r .t Cap 3 Town. Tbe ISevfnth Couctngent are well. Great ! preparation* ;.»•■> r.ei»g at Durban ', f.>r t > e P\ der»l Prorai-r. I Anoth'i- mw«a(;ft caya that Private Bridfon.Eigh h Oo tinmen*, haa broken his leg hrnugh hi- b r«e f*!litg, doing: Taylor, Seventh Contingent, are con- ? .'eseent. H- 1m is progressing satiai f -vctorilv. Bunker ia at U«pe Town and well. Wbllington, May 1. William Stanton, Sixth N«w Zetland Continent, ij dangerously ill of enti ric at Wynberg.