South Africa.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 215, 12 June 1902, Page 3

South Africa.

London, June 8. De Wet informed a Daily Telegraph correspondent that he was never hit throughout the war or had his horse touched, though bullets cut his clothes. His adjutant was wounded twice and had six horses killed under him. The total deaths of the British during the war until June were L 072 officers and 20,870 men.

In the House of Lords Viscount Goschen, in referring to the financial aspect of the war, said that in 1898 it was estimated that 8 per cent consols, if translated into %\ oer cents, which was subsequently Hone, would have been worth 82, svherea? they now stood at 97, despite the exhausting war and the borrowing of £159,000,000. June 9.

Sixty arrests, including lawyers, a doctor, a chemist and Hollander prisoners on parole, have been made at Pretoria since the declaration of peace on suspicion of being concerned in a plot identical with that for which Lieutenant Hans Cordona was shot in August last. The plotters intends to blow up the Government buildings and Lord Kitchener's residence and spike the guns in the arseoal. A mass meeting at Capetown resolved to memorialise Mr Chamberlain fo su.apt'ijd the 'onstitution. ,Mr ISinir:; di'dnred that such action wis im motive, otherwise the rebels wmUI cipture the Govornm -nt. Mr Michael Davifct unveiled a monument in Armagh to pro-Boer Irishmen who had been killed at Modder River. Subsequently he said that the day would come when England would recognise that she had been wrong in forcing on war with the Boers, The by-standers becoming aggressive, the police interfered to prevent a fight.