Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XLIX, Issue 2454, 20 March 1900, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)

[By Telegraph],

London, March 18

There was unparalleled enthusiasm in connection with St. Patrick's Day, throughout the United Kingdom and the Empire. Many references were made to the Queen and Lord Boberts. Ihe Queen was the recipient of a shamrock grown on the saint's grave, and a harp from the Irish women. The Irish flag was flown at the Mansion House in London and elsewhere. The Lard Mayor of Dublin was subjected to a hostile demonstration by a section of the crowd in the St. Patrick's procession in Dublin, and the windows of his carriage were smashed. The attack was intended as a protest against the Corporation deciding to present the Queen with an address of welcome on the occasion of her visit to Ireland. Thirteen train loads of Boers left Bloemfontein just before the town surrendered. The lurghers desired President Steyn to transfer the keys to Lord Koberts, but he fled under the subterfuge of pretending to visit an outpost. The Boers are in strength at Van Beenan's pass. The New Zealanders uuder Major Robin repelled an attack on a convoy at Driefontein. A portion of stores taken when the British convoy was captured at Beit river was recovered at Bloemfontein. Major Hunter Weston's feat in traversing the Boer lines saved 26 locomotives from being carried off. Lord Boberts has officially censured Major-General Gatacre in connection with the reverse at Stonnberg. Colonel Plumer is approaching nearer Mafeking. The railway is now reported clear.