DE WET'S HORSES TIRED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7374, 28 January 1902, Page 2

DE WET'S HORSES TIRED.

HOW BEN VILJOEN WAS CAPTURED.

Received January 28, 10 a.m. London, January 27. De Wot's horses are in a bad oon> dition. The harassing by the British compels him to be constantly on the move. General Snyman, when taken prisoner, had dynamite with which hej intended to explode the Nyslstroom railway. A party of intelligence agents, while searching for the notorious traitor and train wrecker, ex - Guardsman Jaok Hindon, brought about a skirmish which resulted in the capture of General Ben Viljoen and two of his aides. Hindon's whereabouts were not discovered. A trooper deserting from Nesbit's Horse was captured and shot. All Natal rebels will in future be tried by court-martial instead of by a special civil court. Three hundred prisoners at St Helena, including a number of large land owners, have volunteered for military service in South Africa, fully a thousand would glaaly serve. Received January 28, 10.80 a,m. Sydnby. January 28. In consequence of (he discovery of ticks in the Queensland contingent's horses, the animals have been stopped at the border. Professor Wood, of Sydney University, a member of the Ami- war Society, addressing the Political and Labor League, urged that Great Britain should abandon the domand for unconditional surrender of thq Boers, a demand which it was sought to justify by saying that it was supported unanimously by Australia. He urged that the terms suggested by Lord Kitchener be offered to the Boers, and that the various races in South Africa should be brought together and give -them self-government, similar to * that which Australia enjoyed. That would be the truest patriotism and the truest Imperialism.