THE BOER WAR.
CAPTOR OP FORTY BOERS.
?ILJOE?7 TREKKING TO THE tiUHH VJ3LDT,
(Received May 24, 12.4.'p,m.) Lokdon, May 23. A BLOCK-HOUSE opened lire, (musing a panic, and 40 Boors who were attempting to cross the railway linp to the westwards with a loaded wtiggon were captured. Viljoon's commando crossed to the northwards, going from Rhenosterkop to the bush veldt, whero food is plentiful.
THE RAND MINKS.
AUSTRALIAN JAM.
LoNpoN. May 22, Mining and financial Jhpuses poneerned in the Rand combined to logulato control on a groat scale and the,steady and ecpnoiuioa}.supply of native labour. r l ho War Office has purchased lfi'S tons of Australian jam iov South AfriOft
REPORTED FIGHT NEAR EAB« BERTON,
NEW ZEALANDER KILLED.
London, May 24 It is reported atDelagoa that a big fight ocoured near Barberton, Thern wer6 Gl British casualties, and the Boers suffered heavily. The news is unconfirmed. The Boers killed Private Archibald Wookey, of the New Zealand Bough Riders, while attempting to escape,
NEW ZEALAND ITEMS.
(BV TF.I.EUIurH—PRES3 ASSOCIATION) Wellinotom, Last Night. The Premier has been advised th&t the following are passengers from South Africa to Now Zealand by the steamer Papanui :—778. Private, W. R. Bonner, Stratford (Rough Riders); 827. Trooper E. O. P. vod Dadelslen, Napier (Rough Rider; 33?6, Quartermaster-sergeant John Layman Mitchell, Wellington (Sixth Contingent). A cablegram to the Premier from the General Commanding in South Africa states that the fourth and fifth New Zealand contingents are unlikely to leave for this colony before June Bch.
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Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 954, 25 May 1901, Page 2
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248THE BOER WAR. Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 954, 25 May 1901, Page 2
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