THE CAPE RAIDERS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8288, 16 November 1906, Page 5

THE CAPE RAIDERS.

Received November 15, 9.27 a.m. CAPETOWN, November 14. Ferriera sentenced to death a man for refusing to join him. The man escaped. Mr J. X. Merriman and Mr J. W. Sauer ridicule the raid. FERRIERA'S FOLLOWERS NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT. A FARMER KILLED. Received November 16, 12.11 a.m. CAPETOWN, November 15. The farmers at Hoopstad were for three weeks aware of the date that Ferriera would cross the frontier. He will not receive any local support, though he seeks to compel everybody in the Uplngton district to join in a fight for independence, under the Black Flag, or die. Ferriera has now twenty-eight followers. In the brush with Ferriera on Monday a police volley killed a farmer named Vandermewe, whom Ferriera had recruited. Received November 15, 10.15 p.m. CAPETOWN, November 15. General Botha, in offering his services to the Government, describes the raid as filibustering. Mr Patrick Duncan, Colonial Secretary in the Transvaal, in an appreciative reply, states that he has forwarded General Botha's letter to. Lord Elgin, but he be'ieves that the police will soon deal with Ferriera. Dr Jameson, Premier of Cape Colony, holds a similar view. Inspector White has been superseded at Upington.