THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 January 1901, Page 3

THE BOER WAR.

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Dutchmen surrendering Arms and Selling Horses. |

Received this day, at 7 45 a m. London, January 22. ||i Fourteen Boers were killed at Taungsra on the 11th. 0 Picqnotbuvg is crowded with Dutchmens selling horses to the English and surren-i dering arms and ammunition. || Babington expelled the Boers from® Makar.skraal. K The Cape authorities are straining® every nerve to send men to the front. Saddlers are working night and day. The .Colonial troops have retired toirf Malmesbnrg. t| Reuter reports that Christian Tie Wetp| is still in the Orange Colony and lliatw the Dc Wet who is with Louis Botha iniyi Transvaal is merely a namesake, m The Boer leaders are intercepting amlfi destroying copies of Kitchener’s procla-Ra mation, p Clements has withdrawn from a, posi-g tion 50 miles south-west of Johanesburg.p to Pretoria. Cecil Smith, a New Zealand Eoughfe Eider, died of dysentry at Mafeking. |*| In a fight at Bushmans Krantz on thc|J 16th. sixteen British casualties chiefly ofg the First Eille Brigade occurred, p British officials collect customs du tie sty at Delagoa Bay on all goods destined for|| Transvaal, handing 15% 1° Rortu-|, gese, 1] Bennett Burleigh reports ■ that ap majority of the Board of Members com |,| missioned by the Afrikander Merriraan counsel Kruger to abandon thep hopeless demand for Boer independcncc|;i and that Kruger has further advised to|j to seek a confederation of South States giving the colonies local control on|; a population basis and thus avoidicg| direct Crown Government. |jH