The Boers.
Th 3 Daily News to-day publishes a telegram from Natal stating that inf orma tion has reached there that an interview haa taken place between Sir Evelyn "Wood and Joubeit, the commander of the Boer forces which has resulted in a week's armistice, i.t., until the 14th instant that date being agrreed to. No official confirmation of the statement has yet tranupired. In the House of Commons to-day, the Premier was questioned regarding- the statement in the Daily News, that a week's armistice had been proclaimed in the Transvaal. Mr. Gladstone, in reply, confirmed the announcement, and added that the armistice had been agreed to to enable Kruger the Boer President, to reply to the conditions of peace. Mr. Gladstone further stated that during the time of the armistice Sir Evelyn Wood would bo allowed to reviotual tho British gairison in the Transvaal.
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Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1356, 10 March 1881, Page 3
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145The Boers. Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1356, 10 March 1881, Page 3
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