GENERAL ITEMS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9820, 20 July 1900, Page 3

GENERAL ITEMS.

(Received July 20,1 a.m.) London, July 19. Colonel Hamilton is at Harnan's Kraal, and Lieut.-General Methuen an Colonel Smith-Dorren are clearuig the country between Krugersdorp and Rustenberg.

The Daily Chronicle states that the Australian Bushmen discovered quantities of ammunition, rifles, and shells buried with Cronje's dead at Paardeberg.

Commissions have been granted to R. S. Waller, of Tasmania, in the Royal Artillery, and J. H. Making, of South Australia, in the Inniskilling Fusiliers.

Sir David Richmond, ex-Lord Provost of Glasgow, and Mr J Harrison, general manager of the Nortbvwestern Railway Company, have been added to the Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the management of the hospitals in South Africa. Albany, July 19.

A Brussels paper, La Keforme, received by the mail, publishes an interview with Nichol, a Belgian, who declares that Joubert suicided at Glencoe He says he heard Kruger violently reproaching Joubert for failing to capture Ladysmith. A few days later Joubert was found dead with his hands clenched and features distorted, having, it is asserted, taken poison.

[per press association.]

Wellington, Last night.

The Premier has received the following cable from Lieutenant-Colonel Newall, dated Buluwayo. Bth instant:—" All well. Leave for Tuli to-day."

The outcome «.f the Premier's proposal re funding contributions now in the hands of war committee! was that the bill to be drawn should vest the moneys in the Public Trustee, with a committee to advise, which should consist of-the Mayors of the four chief cities of the colony and two other lepresentatives chosen by the committees of those cities.