MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
(Received July 20, 9.18 a.m.) LONDON, 19th July. A young Boer has been sentenced to five V ears' penal servitude for trying to wreck a troop train at Paarl. The Daily Chronicle states that some Australian Bushmen discovered quantities of rifles, ammunition, aud shells buried with Cronje's dead at Paaruiucrg. The country west of Pretoria, between Krugersdorp and Rustenburg is being cleared by Lieut.-Ueneral Lord Methuen and Major-General Smith-Dorrien. Commissions have been granted- to Lieut. R. S. Waller, of Tasmania, in the Royal Artillery, and Lieutenant J, H. Making, of South Australia, in the Inniskiliing Fusiliers.
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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 17, 20 July 1900, Page 5
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98MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 17, 20 July 1900, Page 5
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