BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 109, 14 May 1902, Page 2

BOER WAR.

CABLE NEWS Br ELTOTBIO Tiltobaph.—OOPTUGH

a VAHIOUS IT2MS. PER PBBU AgtOOUTIOI. Loudon, May 12. The Tiwes sajs that when tbe Bear delegates merely offered to coneeds all the franchise demands mad* 01 behalf of the UitlanJeis before the war, the British Government intimated at the Middloburg co> ferance that it rep eweri. >ed the maximum cone saion*, ar>d refused to permit a cousultation with tha European iiel> gatnc, warding the dalegates then conferring that tbey had better drop the negotiatiuu-i unlem they submitted serious proposal*. The delegates said they must onsuit the burghers befote negotiating for the surrender of tbeir independence. Lord Kitchener warned them that they must return with full power. Schalk Burger agreed to this proposal unreservedly, and Steyn less >o. Captain Elder, of the Ninth New Zealanders, and Lieutenants W. Shera and Quintan of the New Zealand Contingents, are convalescent, and have resumed duty.

WiLLixorox, May 13. The Governor has been advised from South Africa that Sergeant Walter Mille-, Seventh Contingent, and Private John Gourley, Ninth Oo tingen', are dangerously ill of dysen ery, the former at Hanismith, and th* latter at Newcastle.