MAFEKING.
PROGRESS OF THE RELIEF
FORCES.
MESSAGE FROM BADENPOWELL.
London, May 8.
Colonel Plumer has communicated with Mafeking by pigeon post, and is making similar endeavour!! to communicate with the southern relief
column.
Colonel Baden-Powell reports tinder date of the 28th tilt, that everything had remained quiet since the 25th, when the Boer leader failed to induce his forces to assault the town.
There is some indication, reports Baden-Powell, that the enemy's artillery has been withdrawn.
London, May 9.
General Hunter's force includes General Paget' s column and half of General Hart's Brigade.
The Boers report that General Hunter's objective is Vryburg, a town on the railway line between Fourteen Streams and Mafeking.
[BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT, Wellington, Wednesday.
Workmen were engaged this morning in preparing the illuminations which arc to greet the news of the relief of Mafeking. The illumination consists of different coloured electric lamps, " red, white, and blue." Similar preparations are being made in other parts of the town. Bells are to be rung, and rockets and coloured fires will illuminate the wharf.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11368, 10 May 1900, Page 5
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