THE WAR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7394, 21 February 1902, Page 2

THE WAR.

Received February 20, 10.33 p.m. Adelaide, February 20. The local unit of the, Commonwealth Contingent sailed to-day. Received February 20, 10.40 p.m. London, February 20. No. 3646 William Charles Edward Partridge, of Broadfield, Christohureh, a member of the Sixth New Zealand Mountede, has died of enteric at Charlestown.

FAILURE TO DISLODGE BOERS.

GERMAN'S BESENT CALUMNIES ON BRITISH TROOPS. BALLOONING IN WARFARE. Reoeived February 21, 9.18 a.m. London, February 20. Boers sentenoed to penal servitude outside Africa are going to the Seychelles Islands, in the Indian Ocean. A special gaol is being constructed at Antigua for the accommodation of twelve hundred ordinary prisoners of war. It will be ready by the middle of April.

Major Trollope, of the Army Ballooning Department, states that the capture of General Crooje's force at Paardeberg was due to a Cape boy who, seeing from a balloon, prevented the British artillery firing upon a dummy laager when the Boers were hiding in the bed of the river.

The German pastor and Germans at Paarl, Cape Colony, have protested against the calumnies on the British.

A rebel named Geldenhuis was executed at Middleburg on a oharge of murdering natives. Major - General Gilbert Hamilton reports that he marched to Nigel on the 18th, and engaged the Boers at Klippen, whom he failed to dislodge. Part of the 2nd Dragoon Guards wore captured. Major Fielden and Captain Uasher were severely wounded, and two Dragoons killed, six wounded, and forty-six captured, but afterwards released.

Colonel Spens brought to Ennelo eleven prisoners and nineteen surrenderors. Fourteen others surrendered on the Natal border. Received February 21, 0.44 a.m.

London, February 20. Lord Stanley, Finanoial Seoretary to the War Offioe, speaking at Liverpool, admitted the sole responsibility of recommending the acceptance of the meat contract. He said the biggest men in South Africa were behind the contract.

NINTH CONTINGENT.

Auckland, February 19. A considerable number of men in the Ninth Contingent camp are temporarily suffering from dysentery, This afternoon Trooper Allen, from Hawera, was taken to the hospital suffering from pneumonia.

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