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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 62, 14 March 1900, Page 1

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Another British" victoryj. ; .: _ "Graphic" published to-day. ' Sharp battle in the Free State. Last night, oi the Waxworks. Roberts turned a Boer position. Mafeking"was safe on'the 6th. inst. -, Bloenifontein is in Robert..' grasp. "Star" Monthly Summary to-mor-row. Cycle, sports at North Shore this afternoon. Xew Zealand Wcsleyan Conference resnnfed today. ■■ ;_. President Steyn's brother lias been;" captured by the British. ; • Five Tasmanian troopers are missing- in Northern Cape colony. Large picture of the Weslevan Con* ference in this week's "Graphic." Annual meeting of . the- Aiicldand! Acclimatisation Society this afternoons Twelve thousand "Boers were'engaged in the latest battle in the Fred ,Srate. _ • .-• s -. The British war-authorities purpose going .in for a large force of mounted in fan try. ' •■' '- ■■'-■• ~ Sixty soldiers were killed "and 320 wounded in the latest battle in the Free State. ;'_ :. ~''' ' ' '-} The Tyser steamers Indramayo and; Indragliiri have been' released ; frdinj quarantine. ' - ':; .'■ _. ''' "f i An Auckland young man lias'beenl arrested in Sydney on a charge of embezzlement. ' .. - ■ jThe Wellington-Mauawatu Railway; Company has declared a dividend of'_? per cent, for the year. .' - j The "Graphic" this week is a special number, devoted chiefly to the Bough.1 Riders. It contains over a hundrod pictures. - - ' ; _ Pour ex-German officers -with arms and ammunition7 have been arrested by the Portuguese authorities at Lorenzo Marquez. ' " • .'■-.. General French has seized the -.ailway six miles south.of Bloemfontein, ahel cut the telegraph line ;to the northward of that town. ' ' It is proposed to complete the sewage system of Christchurch city and suburbs and raise a special loan of £ 50,000 for that purpose.. The Noi-th Island Band .Association opened the proceedings in connection with their third, annual : contest ats Wellington last night by a "tattoo," iri the Basin Reserve. ~ . Great preparations are being made in connection with the turning of *tiie first sod of the Waipara-Cheviot section of the Christchurch-Blenheim railway, which takes place at Waipara on March 26 or 27. The steam trawler Doto, with Mr Ayson, the.'inspector of RFisheries,on board, has been trawling off the coast to the northward of Lytteltonl with fair success. .She obtained during Monday night over four, tons of marketable fish. • The steamer is now] trawling south of Lyttelton. - "I am•■'writing'the "remainder of-this' letter in the trenches, about 'fiveVmiMs from the Boers (says one of the^nii .Coldstreanis' at Mod.der River); Thirst! is the: worst thing- but hire." Fane vi paying, during;a battle; 5/ for a bottlfe of iwater ptft' of the river which" thai; Boers have thrown their dead in!" . -•;'.f|j3-he«-i was an oblriging. 'farjr^i* here," writes a Hussar from Arundel,' "who. used to bring-' chickens to bur officers' mess, • and refused payment' for them. At last one night he'was seen coming from the enemy's camp. The next night he returned to'find his house occupied by our troops'. I think they are going to shoot him.',': ■ A special ■ meeting of the -VucMan'd Crown Lands 'Board was. held yesterday in order to go through the various applications for sections of tfie Fencourt estate, Waikato, thrown open, for selection. -■ To-day the .Board left for Canibridgq in order to examina applicants there to-morrow. The ballot takes place at Cambridge on Friday. ■ . i '. ■ • .-'-•■ It is announced in-■connection" -witjhi the'.Ngarnawakia annual regatta next* Saturday, that '[, a special • train . will leave ■ Remuera: for Ngaruawahia, ■'■' at' 6.58 a.m. on that day, and another train will leave Auckland at S;2O a.m., conveying, excursionists. The Auckland train will arrive there at norm* 'The , return trains will leave Ng-araa-wahia at sp.m. and 5.30p.m: The return excursion fares from; Auckland are fixed at ; lo£ first-class, and ,6/3 second-class. .:;■ . -. . . . At Ashburton the other day a mart came out of one of the hotels and .commenced uttering-disparaging remarks on the British, and generally aissaiming a pro-Boer attitude. His life was; very, short in this direction, as a few; patriots -soon .gathered round, and after taking in the, situation, a-ne of! the number "floored" the pro-Boer. at' one" fell swoop.., i. Upon rising ;to;his feet again he vya.s, promptly knocked down,'and ultimately. ordered by "the! by-stand<brs. to .sing the National -Anthem Oh his hands and knees.,. ,--.t.'j_.; ■; :■. A few/days ago it was announced that General "Buller" recently received a medal for his services in Canada" i___j 1867. An Auckland resident,'formerly, of Canada;: can go one better' than! 'that. Yesterday Mr Chas. B. King., of Auckland,-received"a war medal.from; the Canadian Government for his services Jn 1566, at the engagement, of Ttidgway, againstt a Fenian force which invaded Canada from the United States in that year. The Canadian/ volunteers,' of whom Mr King was then a member, lost 13 killed in the fight.' t - ' ' f . . ■■ (