THE BOER WAR.
[by ELECTRIC TE. EGRAPH —copyright.]
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
London. January 21. Eleven farmers were arrested and brought before Major Cradoclc for drilling and inviting the invaders. Naiivo scouts captured 400 horses at Wolvehoep. Hertzog at Calvinia anxiously inquired for De Larey’s whereabouts. 700 rifles were handed in to the authorities at Carnarvon. The town guard and detachments of Australians at Willowinore repelled 400 Kruitzinger’s Boers, While covering wiih grass a trap mine worked on a level with the earth near Zeerust, the weight pressed too heavily on the lever used to fire the charge, which exploded, killing Lieut Wallace (North Lancashire ilegiraont) and Corporal Edwards (New Zealand Artillery.) Sydney, January 21. The New Zealanders who served in regiments raised in South Africa, returned by the Damascus ; —Hamilton, Geary, Peaks, Henderson, Pafllet, Thompson and Keogh.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 22 January 1901, Page 4
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