SECOND EDITION. CAJiLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 52, 4 March 1901, Page 6

SECOND EDITION. CAJiLE NEWS.

[BY ELrCTBIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT.] war. o DE WETS INVASION ENDED. MEN AND HOUSES SWIMMING ACROSS ORAaUE IUVEK. (Received Mqr'cli 4, 1.51 p.m.) [i'AKSS ASSOCIATION".] LONDON, 3rd March. General De Wet's invasion of Cape Colony has ended. Men .and horses are precipitately swimming the 1 iver where it widens near Colesberg Biidge. The m er is not running rapidly, though in iiood. ITS CAPTAIN APPOINTED. A Pve-s-j Association menage .fr'oni Sii.iiioul to-day contains the iufoim.uiou that Coiporal H. J). Coutt.s. of. the First Contingc U, h,i i b:cn appointed captain of the Seventh Contingent — it is understood Ih.it o'tly (imc N to be sent from New Zoi'l.md. Mi. Coulls who befoic enlisting with our Fn^i. was a farmer in Tnranaki, -nent out to South Afriaa. a-> a piivate, and c:\me back ti coipoiiil. But ho also c.ime back an Lunou; , in 1 ::, ..^> he v,a.'/ aMurc!cd one of the ioui 1 bLinvis knitted by Her late Majesty iho (^uet-n for tlio tour mc-t popinai meiiihei-i of colonial coips serving at the fiont. There is no doubi that iv is .Nil-. Coutti's exIDerience and popularity with his comrades of the First that have yon for him his command. The nev. r captain is about 25 years of age. He is expected to anive from Tnranaki in a few days, and will then talce»over the command of the camp. NELSON, This Day. The Nelpon and West Coast members of the Seventh Contingent left for Wellington eaily tl«i-« morning. They were given a suitable send-off by the volunteers and band last evening.",