CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 127, 2 June 1902, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

BY KLKOTBIC TaiiBOEAPH.— OopTßioir^ BOER WARVARIOUS ITEMS. FBB FRESS ASSOCIATION. London, May SO. The War Office has requested the Premier of New South Wales to arrange for fin analysis and inspection of 500,00011)4 of preserved m»at to be shipped by the Sydney Meat Preserving Company this month and 300.0001ts in July. Received 1, 5.10 p.m. Sydney, June 1. Iu reply to inquiries, tne Premier has received a wire from the offioer c mmandingthe Aurania's troops dtnying that the men did the looting recently reported from Oape Town, er committed any excess s it Albany, He adds that a stowaway committed * few robberies, but the conduot of the troops W£g exemplary. Received 2,1.6 am. London, June 1. A Renter message states that Steyn is Buffering fnm paralysis, and tbia caused his abstention from the Vereeniging conference. He is now at Krugersdorp, ou parde. 8A NKW YORK CANARD. CHANGES IN THE CAPE MINISTRY Received 1.4.30 p.m. London, May 31. The Morning Post sties that m Wall-street operator has received * code message from Pretoi ia alleging that the terms gf (imcesty alone remain ursettled. l'he Boers appealed.to the magnanimity of Britain, saying they were u:>able to i.'e-ert (We who- had helped them" Ihroughout. Theie are indications of Krituin Agreeing to take cgmsanc* only of traitorous conduct among the leaders of the Oape Oolony rebellion. Hon. T. W. Sruait iidcioitea the (*■> •iusp'- nsion of tie Cape Cotftitution, but the Premier, Sir Jas. Go don Sprieg, opposes this. Mr A. Douglass, member for Grahamstown, succeeds Mr Smart as Minister for Works. Sir Pieter Faure -urrenders the portfolio of Agriculture for t bat of Colonial Seoretaiy, J. Frosty ** [Minister without portfolio, taking that lof Agriculture. REPORTED DETERMINATION OF BOSS DELEGATE'S, DISSENSIONS IN OAPE COLOKT. Received 1, 4.89 r.m. L noon, Mty 31. Biuss-ls advices state that the Boer delegates intend signing the peaoe manifesto in the namts of 'he menbors of the former Orange Free State and Transvaal Governments, including Kruger, in order to prevent irreconcilable* Mining that they are cortiuaing a guerilla war in obedience to tbe delegates in Europe. The Progressive membeis of the o*pe Pirliameut fear that 'he Qipe Du'ch will refuse tbe Bill of Indemnity tor the Government's acts daring tbe war. They aluo fear anti-Imperial legislation. The finanoial outlook ie cinsdered critical, owing te the enormous expenditure by the C»pi Government sinco it undertook the contract for the war operations within the colony. If the Constitution be auepeoded, it Is expected Britain will belp to pay. .e Times says tha dig9tn*ion< existing in Oape Colony, and the control of the Africa nd r Parliament, Will prove a fatal kur to permau* nt p««oe»

Wklunqtoh, Way SI. ItisN uct.ions have been Mitt to the various cen ivk iha; a B.lute. f twenty guns w.H be fir«d on the proclamation of peace. MOKS PBAISJt FOH XEVT ZBALANDKBS. Mr fiwaett KurWvV,, w »r e. rvvnondortt, ,! tivi London l\>Uyraph, in orwof hiN ietiors «vnt.>.s:-'<Tiio cl>aec*a of war, hh I have inJi C a',uJ, . a V * been me \tx wtainu hithor. for had I ■u s-aud f.-on fiono <>„,, w ith Colonels liiming!ou or rtyu Kl of >heir columns, 1 should have b e,i an .ye. witness of th« recent rouudiue-up of «, many of Christian l )a WeV men gainst the Ha.iismi.h.Var.RfeoaA'. Pass blockhouse 1i„... l, milluHt crilli*nt b.t of Koldi-1 ing, and I should i.ve dearly lik-d t0 bear part with my .taunch, gool frieadi th« New Zea.<nder», who „g,i„ ftnd in hwo »rne the brunt of many ftn attack, and ilways g-veaa nugnifi« n t acommt of ibematlvea lhat much the .ffioialde- *^

spatche*, little a„d hig, should .how. I dont mean ,t i* an .dious eompwiaon, but no m-unteJ furce in the hervice—regular or irre«uU r , mounted infanlry, sted.er than th« New Zwlawfcw. It I added: Wei), ,t matte-g that I musjd w-ing the «p'. u „ of 80 tfc p»rt of Ohmtnn De We.'a following tor one drive is very life, Ruo th,r. Yel and no In a sense hattlea are alike, bur. yet there is a world of diff ,eoo. la ± each. M