THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12425, 14 February 1901, Page 5

THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

THE AFRIKANDER RESOLUTIONS. MR CHAMBERLAIN’S REFLT. CONSTERNATION AMONG THE BOERS. A FRUSTRATED ATTEMPT. United Press Association—By 'Electric. Telegraph—Copyright; LONDON. Feb. 12. Mr Chamberlain, in a note approving of Sir Alfred Milners reply to the resolutions adopted by the Afrikander Bond Congress, recently held at Worcester, stated that the Imperial Government does not intend . to alter its declared policy in South Africa. The Bepublics were responsible for the adoption of such, a policy. The Pretoria correspondent of the “ Standard ” states that great consternation exists amongst the Boer leaders on the confines of Swaziland, who fear that they will be compelled to either abandon their hug© convoy and guns, or risk a general engagement. Commandant Sard Eloff, Mr Kruger’s grandson, and four other Boer prisoners, seized a fishing boat at St Helena, but failed to secure oars, and were arrested. A MARCHING RECORD'. LOYAL GERMAN FARMERS. (Received’ Feb. 15, 9.52 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 12. Colonel De Lisle, with the Australians, beat the record in marching to Williston, in, Western Cape Colony, covering seventytwo miles, in forty-eight hours, through a desolate, waterless country. , The Boers have gone to Vanwyksvaler in search of water and forage. Colonel P. Scherombrucker, the member of the Cape Assembly for King Williamstow’n, is raising a corps of loyal German farmers for the purpose of co-operating with General Brabant. f ___ ■ BOER CRUELTIES. THE LAST REFUGE. MR KRUGER REQUESTED TO MOVE. The natives of the Leydsdorp district have risen against the Boers owing to the latter’s cruel exactions. . There are indications that Swaziland has long been prepared as a last Boer refuge. The British authorities at Bloemfontein are inviting tenders for clothing and boots for distribution amongst the Boer refugees. The Netherlands Government has asked Mr Kruger to reside elsewhere than at) The Hague. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. BRITISH SUCCESS. (Received Feb. 14, 12.15 a.fh.) i LONDON, Feb. 13. Piet De Wet is visiting Cape Town with a view to inducing the Afrikander Bond leaders to co-operate to. secure peace. The British occupied Finksburg, ‘the Boers retiring to Fouriesberg. General French captured a convoy of 50 -waggons, 15 carts and 45 prisoners. The British had no loss. IMPERIAL MOUNTED CONSTABULARY. REINFORCEMENTS FROM QUEENSLAND. MELBOURNE, Feb. 13. The Minister of Defence has received a cable message from the Imperial authorities, asking to be allowed to recruit bn© thousand mounted constabulary for South Africa within the Commonwealth. 'No terms are stated. BRISBANE, Feb. 13. The Government has offered to send mere troops to South Africa. The Government, In offering further troops, stipulated no number. If the Imperial authorities send a steamer it will endeavour to fill it. NEW ZEALAND INVALIDS. (Received Feb. 14, 12,34 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Feb. 13. Another batch of invalided soldiers arrived by the Nineveh, including the New Zealanders Captains Bartlett and Gregory and Sergeants Fox and Cromer. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Feb. 13. The Premier has received a. cable message from the Premier of Tasmania, to the (effect that Sergeant Challis, of the Fourth Contingent, who was received into the Hobart Hospital when returning to New Zealand by the Karamea, has developed severe typhoid fever. Private Searle, of the Fifth Contingent, is progressing ’ satisfactorily. His is a case of malaria. NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES. [Per Press Association.] WELLiNGTON, Feb. 13. A cable message received from the High Commissioner, Cape Town, under yesterday’s date, states that Corporal Parkinson, of the Third Contingent, hailing from Kaituna, died from enteric fever oh Ffeb. 6, and that Trooper E. 0. F. Von Dadelszen (Third Contingent), Napier, and Private Roberts (Fifth Contingent), Nelson, are dangerously ill at Pretoria.