TILE BOER WAR.
EXECUTION OF A BURGHER. BOER PRISONERS FOR INDIA. ■ London, March 20. Lord Kitchener has confirmed the capital sentence passed on De Jaegers a buryher at Harrismith, for killing three natives, one of them in the most cold-blooded manner. De Jaegers was executed. It is intended to send a thousand Boer prisoners to Madras and Bombay respective!j. SCnEEPER'S COMM AN D O SEVERELY HANDLED. SEVERE FIGHTING AT lIARTBEESTFONTEIN. London, March 25. Colonel 11. J. Fcobell's column 0:1 the '2oth severely handled Scheeper's commando at Blaauwkrantz, killing six Boers and eapturiug many horses. The commando escaped in the direction of Aberdeen. Severe fighting occurred on Friday at Hartbeestfontein. NEW ZEALAND ITEMS. SIXTH CONTINGENT AT PRETORIA. (l-.Y TfcLKURAPH —FRESH ASSOCIATION). Wkllixuto.n, Last Kiyht. 'Die P/emier has received the f«. Hewing cablegram from Colonel R.uUa, of the Sixth Continm nr, (Inter! Pretoria. March 23rd :—" Anivcd at Pretoria yesterday, all well. Firirn 50 to GO horses were left at Eitst Loudon, under Lieutenant Gossrnve, to recuperate.
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Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 912, 26 March 1901, Page 3
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164TILE BOER WAR. Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 912, 26 March 1901, Page 3
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