TO-DAY'S WAR CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XXII, Issue 164, 14 January 1901, Page 2

TO-DAY'S WAR CABLES.

AFRIKANDER MISSION DENOUNCED. London, January 13. The majority of the Dutch farmers in Wellington (45 miles north of Capetown) support the Kronstad appeal. They also denounce the idea of. an Afrikander mission to the House of Commons, and maintain that the despatch of such a mission would be calculated to prolong the war. DISAFFECTION AT THE CAPE. The detachments of British troops sent to garrison Murraysburg (about fifty miles west of Graaf River) were sullenly received by the local Boers. A number of rebels in the neighbourhood joined the invaders. The British have strongly garrisoned the towns of Graaf Reinet and Bothsarda. The local farmers are bringing horses in for sale to the British. An official declaration has bee published in the disaffected districts to the effect that there are no neutrals now, and that those passively assisting the invaders will be sternly punished. The declaration has created a great impression. CASUALTIES TO NEW ZEALANDERS. A New Zealand Rough Rider, Alex. D. Ross, has died of enteric at Pretoria. Trooper W. Millar, belonging to the same force was accidentally severely wounded at Pretoria. DISAFFECTED LEADERS. Basutoland natives report that seyeral commandants, who bad controlled sec* tions ot J>e \yet's force, grew tired of the ce«6elegs movement from place to place,, and quitted tbe leader's boli^mn. The disaffected commandants are now conducting operations independently. The Bultfontein (North-east Orange River Colony) garrison and inhabitants, together with refugees and cattle, have been tran?£ erred to Smaldeel. BELGIUM APOLQGJSJSg. The Belgian Otovepntrent bs9 formally apologised to Britain for the insult to the British Consul at Li g@ on ibe pcaas^o of Mr Kruger's demo etration. -