MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
CAPETOWN, February IG. Lieut.-Colonel Eager, wounded and captured at Stormberg, and who subsequently had his leg amputated, died at Burghersdorp. The Boers transferred his body to the British at Molteno. He was given a military funeral at Sterkstroom. M. Leon, the French representative of the Creuzot. gun . manufacturers, was seriously wounded while watching the bombardment of Kimberley. LONDON, February 10. Miss Johnston, of Wellington, has given Mr Reeves 13 field glasses for the New Zealanders. SYDNEY, February IS. The Government has cabled £100 tc the. American Consul at Pretoria, tc assist the New South Wales prisoners requiring relief.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 42, 19 February 1900, Page 5
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