BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 105, 6 May 1902, Page 3

BOER WAR.

VARIOUS ITKM&. London, May 4. The advance of the Narnaq'ialand column ha« pra^icd'v rJiv> d o)bi u p. The trial of Pietf-r Da Wt , a member of the Chi>=) Assembly, is proceeding at; Aliwal North. A letter from Mr, Stxyn to the prisoner promised coW- j ist-> joining tbe R-puWc bu^ghership,; with native assis'a'.ce during harvrsi- j ° I ing. i A pirty of rebels at Tweifontein murdeted Li ut.ennnt Murray, who approached them under tb» impression that *hey were British. Earl S&lboine, when eulogising the Transport Department, said that 1,250,000 'ona of stores, exclusive of f' rage, 400,000 remoun s, and 500,000 m<m havt- been conveyed to Cape j without the 'oas of ft life owing to any I ; fn'iltj. Six hundred B'itish ships had i j been fmployrd. | BOEUS DESTROY RAILWAYS. ' j DYNAMITING THTS BLOCKHOUSES. Received 6, 0.54 a.m. London, May 5. Pietpr De bas b en acquitted. An epidemic t.f "red wale'' " has d«-s'-roved whele herds very suddenly in ! Rhod> s : «.

I Snouts' Transvaalpis hive destmyfl i gf c'ion l ; of <hi nil way in the and • demanded the surrender of O'ki p nri 4th April. Colo-el Shel on, who hud ] ■ three wfeks provisions for six thou-j jfand souls, b-might in the MiVcklipj 'and Mittabeep garrisons. bu f .the Town Guard of - )rfus°H to join, and it was lvportp.' ih-y had sucrendered without resist hp. I The garrison at Springbok-fontein; : made a gallant fight, but surrendered I in face of superior numbers rf the] f'liemv", who were ready 'o dynamite] the s. ] ! Els'* here spiral rr.en 111 blockhouses have b"en billed by thrown on the roofs. } L4ND FOR A BORR COLONY. Received 6, 1.10 a.n.". London*, May 5. A decree issued in Ar>.-en*ina gnnta t'"e B er lar.d in Chubut YaSley for coom-' , ion.