THE SPIONKOP AFFAIR.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11244, 9 April 1902, Page 7

THE SPIONKOP AFFAIR.

The Government are publishing all the despatches relating to the Spionkop affair. A FUND FOB LOYALIST REFUGEES.

A Mansion House Fund, has been opened at the instance -of Lord Milner- and Mr Chamberlain, to provide the families of a thousand Johannesburg loyalist refugees with £50,000 worth, of household! goods prior to their return, to replace the. things looted from their houses.

THE COMMONWEALTH HORSE. SYDNEY, April 8. A new Federal Contingent ia being enrolled under the title of the Commonwealth Horse. NEWS OF NEW ZEALANDERS. (FBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, April 8. Major Piloher cables from Capetown: — "Lieutenant Taylor, Privates Quinn, Mitchell, and McKelvie, are doing well. Private Howard* is dangerously ill witih enteric at Wynberg."

A TROOPER'S LETTER. iBMOUIi TO "THB FBXSS."} DUNEDIN, April 8. Trooper Umbers, of the Scottish Horse, who was wounded in a recent engagement, writing to hie father here under date February 18th, says that the men of the Eighth and Ninth Contingents will find plenty of hard fighting as the remaining pages <rf the war aore turned over. He adds that the 15-pounder that the New Zealanders captured from Dβ Wet was one taken from Colonel Firman on Christmas Day, and that he understands that MajorGeneral OlipHant is going to relieve Lord Metihuen. - .

i The Marchioness of TuUibardine, who take* a most kind and active interest.in her husband's soldiers, hae again written to Mr Umbers about his son; The young Marchioness is the chief of her husband's convalescent camp, and, as Trooper Umbers says, her "boys" are delighted at having so kind and beautiful a "commanding officer" to cheer them up while in hospital.