NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 1411, 16 April 1902, Page 2

NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE.

Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright London, April 15. The Times says that the delegates' communication was only a feeler. The wiser Boers unconditionally surrender, without haggling, trusting to British generosity. The Transvaal Legation at Brussels intimates that the conditions of peace include autonomy, with a shadowy recognition of British sovereignity, an amnesty, a huge grant for re-stocking, equality of language, and the cession of the Rand to Britain. In the House of Commons, Mr Balfour stated that Lord Kitchener had communicated on Saturday a message from the Boer delegates, and a reply had been sent thereto. A further communication was expected. COLENBRANDER'S FIGHT. Details of Colonel Colenbrander's fight at Malispoort show that the country was extremely difficult. Lieut.-Colonel Murray was seriously wounded, and there were seven other British casualties. A strong column attacked Colonel Kekewich at Roomal on the 11th, the fighting being very hot. Most of the British are only slightly wounded. Colonel Colenbrander has tightened the cordon round Commandant Beyers. KITCHENER'S REPORT. Lord Kitchener's weekly report states that 55 Boers have been killed, 43 wounded, 167 taken prisoners, 5 surrendered, and 130 rifles, add 5200 rounds of ammunition captured. The report adds that the Boers in Cape Colony are very scattered. General Bruce Hamilton's and part of Colonel Williams' columns are sweeping the eastern Transvaal from Heidelberg to Standerton railways, and between the Ermelo-Carolina blockhouses and South African Constabulary line. DEATH OF A NEW ZEALANDER Captain R. G. Tubman, of the Seventh Contingent, died of enteric at Heilbron. NINTH CONTINGENT. Dunedin, April 15. A cable from Captain Nicholson announces the arrival at Durban, "All well," of the Kent with the Southern section of the Ninth Contingent.