Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Arrowtown: April 12, 1900 LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Lake County Press, Issue 906, 12 April 1900, Page 4

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

Arrowtown: April 12, 1900 LATEST TELEGRAMS.

The trust that's given thee guard, and to just.

[Special—own correspondent.] Dunedin, This Day. The inward 'Frisco mail should reach Dunedin on Friday morn i g. The trains were very heavy this morning taking people oat of town for Easter holidays. Cases of typhoid fever are prevalent in Sydney, 78 being reported in a fortnight with 11 deaths. The plague has broken cut iu Western Australia. Cronje has arrived at St. Helen*. Twenty thousand horses from Australia, Buenos Ayres and New Orleans will be at Capetown during April. Lord Koberts has urgevl BadmPowell to persist in his defence of Mafeking until the middle of May. The Colonel replied it is possible if most rude economy is observed. The Boers on sth inst surrounded and shelled hand of armed Kaffirs escaping from Mafeking, killing thirty-one Bum ham the famous American scout discovered the ambush at Koorn Spruit and tried to warn-General Broadwood. Wepener is isolated and threatened by force of 200 Boers. There is large Boer commando laager at Don Kerpoort, north of Norvals Point. All the prisoners taken at Boshof with the exception of thtee Dutchmen were either Frenchmen, Germans or Russians. Troopship Maori arrived at Albany on Tuesday afternoon. Men and horses are well. The Waimate has also arrived. The seizure of the Bank at Bloemfontein by the British has hampered Steyn. The Free State Bank a* Kroonstad wa3 unable to pay out. The arms surrendered by the Free Slaters were obselete and they have retained their Mausers and joined the the rebels. Colonel Plumer has b >eu slightly wounded in the arm. His horse was shot during a rifle engagement six miles off Mafeking on the 31st March. The enemy outnumbered his force, of whom ten were kiile 1 and 20 wounded. A retirement was effected in an orderly manner. The Boer loss was serious. The ISaval Brigade is boinbar-ling the Boer positions beyond Sundays River. The troops are leaving Natal to reinforce Roberts.