CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 23 October 1900, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

The Transvaal. GENERAL BULLER. General Buller, in accepting a sword of honour presented by the residents of Pietermaritzburg, referred to the nnnaralMed difficulties which marked tne bcginuing of the campaign. He had refused Sir Evelyn Wood's generous offer to serve onder him, because he regarded the relief of Ladysmith as a forlorn hope in which it would have been cowardly to let Sir Evelyn share. The General admitted that he had rightly lost the chief command in South Africa after the battle of Colenso. No soldier had previously undergone such a tremendous strain as the troops under him in Natal. They had to face fire day after day. MOVEMENTS OF THE ENEMY. Commandant-General Botha is moving against Lydenburg, which is strongly held and filled with supplies. Major-General Clements has cleared the enemy from the Magaliesberg range, in the neighbourhood of Rustenburg, capturing 500 cattle. MR KRUGER'S TOUR. Dr Leyds is " booming " Mr Kruger and is preparing to make a circnlar tour with him to meet the Cabinets of Europe and America. The ex President will land at Marseilles. EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY WITH THE BOERS. Mr Michael Davitt and the Irish Nationalists have prepared an address to ex- President Kruger, expressing sympathy with the heroic stand £0/ liberty made by the Boers. Tfie address proceeds:—" We humblo^iur. selves, with shame at the thought that there are so many Irishmen in the ranks of the oppressors of the Boers and unable to withdraw. We have followed the contest with absorbing interest, elated with hopes at your triumphs, and depressed with anguish at your reverses by the horde of mercenaries in the pay of the coveters of land and -gold and haters of independence." MR KRUGER. Mr Kruger and his secretary were transferred at dawn on October 10th from the residence ot the Governor of Delagoa Bay to the steamer Gelderland. This precaution was taken owing to it being feared that an attack would be made on the ex- President by the Boers now at Lorenzo Marques. Mr Kruger held a private reception on board the steamer Gelderland prior to her departure for Europe on Saturday. The Parisian newspaper " Figaro " warns the French people of the danger of irritating Britain in connection with Mr Kruger' s visit, adding "We have already suffered sufficiently for Anglophobia in the paucity of the British support to the exhibition and British visitors to the Riviera." i The Premier, M. Waldwk-Rouweau,

will endeavour to make the reception of Mr Kruger at Marseilles as tame as possible, in order to thwart the Nationalists. King Leopold, of Belgium, is discountenancing the pro- Boers. He will consider the ex- President of the Transvaal a private visitor. GENERAL FRENCH. General French has been promoted to substantive rank as major-general. FIGHTING IN THE SOUTH. Lord Roberts reports that a Boer force entered Jagersfontein, a town in the 3outh-west of Orange River Colony, on the night of the 16th. The British garrison had nine men killed and two mortally wounded; the Boers lost their commandant and twenty men killed. PUTTING THE SCREW ON. There is a growing feeling in Pretoria that a threat to confiscate the property of burghers who continue fighting is the best means of ending the present guerilla warfare. A LARGE ORDER OF JAM. The War Office has ordered three hundred thousand pound tins of jam for South Africa.