CABLEGRAMS.

Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 914, 28 March 1901, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

The Latest Home, Foreign and

Colonial News.

[PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—IIY EIjKCTBIC TKL GUAFH.—COI'YBIfiHT.]

THE BOER WAR —* — EFFECTIVE WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS. BOEE DEPOT DESTROYED. London, March 26. In the recent attack by Delare) r on Lichtenburg, in the Western Transvaal, 70 Boers were caught in the w're entanglements, arranged by the garrison for defensive purposes, and most ot them were shot. A patrol of Johannesburg Mounted Police burned the Bosehkop Hotel on the West Hand. The place was a regular depot for Boers. Two of the police were killed in expelling the Boers. Colonel Henniker's column on Saturday had a running light with Comniandaat Latter's commando, which numbered about 000 men. The forces came into touch near Vlakfontein station, south of Johannesburg. A detachment, of Victorian Bushmen constituted a part of the British force, and the commanding ofheer, Major Clark, had his horse shot under him. DELAREY'S DEFEAT. CAPE DUTCH DISMAYED. AFRICANDER BOND ADVISES CESSATION OF RESISTANCE. (Received March 2Sth, 12.15 p.m.) London, March 20. Delarey's defeat has dismayed the Cape Dutch, and prominent members of the Africander Boud advise the cessation of resistance. COMPENSATION FOR GERMANS (Received March 27, 9.14 p.tn.). London, March 26. The British Government has agreed to compensate German subjects expelhd from the Transvaal, the maximum amount of compensation to be £2OO. The recipients are chiefly officials or the Netherlands Railway Company. THE LATEST. 130 COLONIAL TROOPERS AMBUSHED. COLONIAL LOSSES, 13. ! REMAINDER STRIPPED OF I ARMS AND LIBERATED. 1 (Received March 2S, 0.13 a.m). London, March 27. A hundred of Malan's Boers on the 21st ambushed a hundred and thirty Colonial troopers in a rocky defile near Richmond. The Coloninls surrendered after losing thirteen. They were stripped of arms and accoutrements and liberated.

CRISIS IN CHINA. THE INDEMNITY TAX. Received March 27, 0.22 a m. London, March 26. Silt ROBERT HART advised Li Hung Chang to provide the indemnity demanded by the Powers, by means of stamp duties, taxes on houses, and on native opium. Baitain opposes any increase in tariff at treaty ports.