BOER WAR.

Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 864, 25 January 1901, Page 2

BOER WAR.

J| fr 21 FARMERS ARRESTED FOR 1 1 DRILLING. •■ 1 CAPTURE OF HORSES. I' 700 RIFLES HANDED IN AT CARNARVON. [united peess association], (by electric telegraph—copyright). London, January 22. Eleven fanners have been arrested and brought to Cradock for drilling and for inviting the invaders. Native scouts captured 400 horses it Wolvehoep. Commandant Herfzog at Calvinia anxiously inquired of Delarey's where- '_ EBabouts. , a Seven hundred rifles have been , to the authorities at Garnaravon. • jju The Town Guard and a detachment I' ""of the Austrlians at Willowmore repelled 400 of Kruitzinger's Boers. JOHANNESBURG IN DARKNESS. THE ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANT DESTROYED. 1200 BOERS ADVANCING ON CLANWILLIAM. (Received January 24, 9.34 a.m.) Dondon, January 2o The Boers destroyed the electric lighting plant, and Johannesburg and suburbs is in darkness. Scouts are in touch with the vanguard of twelve hundred Boers inarching from Calvinia to Clanwilliain. CUSTOMS"DUTIES AT DELAGOA COLLECTED BY THE BRITISH. KRUGER AND THE PEACE COMMISSIONERS. ~j London, January 23. . J British officials collect the customs H'luties at Delagoa Bay on all goods Ifdestiiied for the Transvaal, handing Ijfifteen per cent to the Portuguese. i H Mr Bennett Burleigh reports that rat.he majority of the Peace CominisIhioners, by the Afrikander leader Mer- ' pnmaii's ceunsel, urge Mr Kruger to ' aabandou the hopeless demand for ! .lb Boer independence. Mr Kruger was l|futrher advised to seek a confederation of the South African State giving Bathe colonies local control on a popupalation basis, thus avoiding a direct .|||orown Government. Eg HOSPITAL INEFFICIENCY. London, January 23. The Hospital Commission's report exonerates the Army Medical Corps, but suggests that the corps be increased, and recommends the appointment of a committee cf experts with a view to suggesting improvements, including the undertaking of sanitary luties. The report adds: "While here were serious leches, there was to scandal associated with the treatHjiuent of the sick and wounded, no f/general or widespread neglect of payments, or indifference to their suffericings. 1 NEW ZEALAND. | DEMONSTRATION ABANDONED, fa m v l!v TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION). ■": Auckland, Last Night. |>s The Mayor received the following telefrom Colonel Pole-Penton, Comfgviandant of the Forces, last niyht :—'To JSK'oneequence of the lamented death of Ksliler Majesiy tlw Queen the Auckland of the Sixth Contingent cannot Isjpariicipate in any military festivities on f*?,the occasion of their departure from [£;•] VucUland for South Africa.'" K-? The Mayor of Auckland has received sifhe following telegram from the ActingEJ|Preniier :—" After full consideration I Kim of the opinion that there can be no whatever to the citizens enter&Jtainiug at luncheon the departing conp;]".ingent and their comrades who proceed Rj! o Auckland iu the Cornwall. I will income to Auckland in any case, as I gstliink it is only right to be present at the of our men. Except luncheon Kit is desirable that no public demonstration take place, beyond what is abggsoiiucly necessary. After the men have feiiad luncheon they should be quietly KSimarehod on board the steamer. I have iwgiv-'U instructions for the New Zealand to travel fiee by train to the ||<end-off. M Wlllincton, Last Night. m Sir A. Miluer advises the AetingiftlL'rtmier that Private Murphy, of MarshCanterbury, and Private Moss, of bo;h of the New Zealand 'JiCoiitingents, are daujjetiously ill, the at Kimberley and the latter at ;*ij Dt'NEbi.v, Last Night. fej The returned soldiers by the Orient £;-were received by Mr Ward, who ex"j'ipiained that the programme had been owing to the death of the Each of the returning soldiers |s« r as presented with a worked khaki containing a sum of gold, and subKsequently the men were entertained at when further speeches were de-r-jliveted by Mr Ward and the Mayor, '•Reeling reference being made to the death jjpof Her Majesty. The Orient, with the Northern Conleft for Wellington yesterday. '& r J'he Christchurch men left by train to§Jay. ________