THE LATEST FROM LADYSMITH.

Feilding Star, Volume XXI, Issue 126, 27 November 1899, Page 2

THE LATEST FROM LADYSMITH.

ALL WELL AND CHEERFUL. KRUGER'S INTERFERENCE WITH THE U.S. CONSUL. A PROTEST FROM AMERICA. Press Association. Telegraph. Copyright; Capetown, November 25. Second-Lieut. Osborne and a detach meßt of the New South Wales Lancers took part in tbe engagement near Belmont. . Lieut. Cox's detachment is assisting General French at Naauport. A.t Arundel they helped in preventlag the Boers capturing a military train. London, November 25. An official report from Ladysmith, dated 22nd inst., states that the defenders were all well and cheerful. ! The French Red Cross Association gave the medical instruments, and the Duke of Newcastle the Rontgen apparatus for the hospital ship being fitted from the old Soudan Fund Washington, November 25. . Iv connection with President Kruger forbidding the American Consul to inform Great Britain with reference to Mie prisoners, President McKinley has informed President Kruyer that America insists on tbe sacred duty of watching tbe interests of Britishers. Capetown, November 24. Three thousand fiye hundred Boers have been defeated at JJelniont by Gen^ eral Lord Methuen, who is advancing to the relief of Kimberley. The prisoners include a German Commandant and six cornets. Wellington, November 25. Colonel Pen to n has received a Cible ims-age from Major Robin, officer in charge of tho New ZeuLmd contingent, announcing the arrival of the contingent. Major Robin says the men are very fir. They lost 12 horses on the voyage. Private Hunt met with a tlight accident, and is in the hospital.