MISCELLANEOUS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXVI, Issue 1378, 23 February 1900, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Boers claim to have captured 142 of the Wiltshire Regiment when the British retired to Arundel, including 44 wounded.

The residents of Jacobsdal were amazed to find that the British,.^instead of looting the town, distributed their own stores among the inhabitants.

Lord Roberts on Monday issued a proclamation declaring that President Steyn, and not the burghers of the Free, State, is responsible for the invasion of their country by British forces. Great Britain, he concludes, retains no ill-will towards the burghers.

The Queen has congratulated Lord Roberts upon tbe success of his recent movements, and acknowledged the heroism of the Kimberley garrison during the siege.

The British casualties en the road to the relief of Kimberley total 50.

Mr Cecil Rhodes has Undertaken to pay the cost of the conveyance of all the women and children from Kicoberley to the seaside.

The. British convoy of 200 waggons about which conflicting reports have been received we're finally" e'aDtur<& by tljb Briers.

The . Government have omitted the Lord Mayor of Dublin and a number of other mayors in Ireland from the Assize Court Commissions owing to their disloyal utterances.

Commandant Pretorious, the wounded Boer commandant, has, in accordance with Lord Robert's instructions, been released.

The Qtfecn summoned to Osborne the bugler boy Dunn, who was wounded in the firing line at the battle of Colenso, and presented him with a bug!e. This is the boy who was seen to shoot three. Boers.

At Arundel the Boers treated the Australians who were wounded at Hobkirk's most kindly, providing mattresses to lay upon and eggs for them to eat. These are the Australians, elsewhere reported to have been all killed.

A Reutei's message states that large forces commanded by prominent generals are being sent from the Transvaal into the Free State.