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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 3174, 19 June 1900, Page 5

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(FROM OUK DDNKDIi* roKBBSPONDSNT.) Monday evening. The ' Times Bay correspondent states that it is a mater of notoriety that President Kuger favors peace on aim st ' uny term-, but. t ; at he dislikes person.Uy intonating his desire for j»ece proposals. From the co fort and Beourity of hia B . loon car, in addit on to the paper m ney that he is manufacturing, he iasu s a daily I )>ulle ! in con'ami'ig grot^que accounts of British defeats that can only be accepted by the most ignorant. One of his statements la to the effect that the piague ia li erally devouring the British offieera and oth*r officials. Lord Roberta haa despatched a column to meet Maj >r gpueral Biden-Powell >»nd to repair the Pretona-Rustenburg telegraph j lines. „ , | General Cronje, son of the well-known ■ prisoner at Sc Helen-*, surrendered to • Major-Gceral Oaden Powell when con- j vinced that the British really occupied ■ Pietoria. T r«-e young men— H*ns, E off, a-.d Piet K'Uge-, grandsons of President Kruger have been disarmed by M jirgenervl Biden-Powell, a^d have promsed • togubmMhem el. espea-eably to British rule. . A cordon of British troops has been established from Po oh^fstroom to Heidelberg, a r d is intended to iu'eroept De Wet's force, who are treking north. News cornea fr^m London that despite the danger signal, the express train going to Plymouth wrecked the rear car iaj*e of a special raoe train s*andinsf afe the Slough railway station Four persons were killed aod seventy injured. Thrt Tutanekai arrived at Napier at 860 this morning. Tne Premier telegraphed shortly afterwards to his colleagues : " Jast arrived. Had a very pleasant trip amongst) the islands. Had very rough weather, and made for Napier. Health very much improved ; rest and capful diet were all that were wanted. Mrs Seddon and family all well The Tntanekii arrived te mmut • ' too late to catch the early train from Napier for Wellington." j