THE BOER WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11540, 27 November 1900, Page 5

THE BOER WAR.

COLONEL SETTLE'S COLUMN.

SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS.

A BOER ATTACK REPULSED.

AN UNARMED OFFICER MURDERED.

INTENSE INDIGNATION.

DISASTER TO A PATROL PARTY. FOUR MEN KILLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association.— London, November 26. Colonel Settle's column has captured, in the south-western district of the Orange River Colony, 12 prisoners, 200 horses, 10,000 sheep. A Boer attack on Dewetsdorp has been repulsed. Two Boers captured Lieutenant Neumeyer, commanding the Orange police at Smithfield, while driving unarmed towards Aliwal North. He was handcuffed and then shot in the back and head, and robbed. They then threw the body into a spruit. Two natives witnessed the murder. The affair has caused intense indignation. Lieutenant Paxton and lour men, mistaking the road from Thabanchu to Ladybrand, rode straight into a Boer position. Paxton and three of the men were killed and the other was wounded.

KRUGER IN PARIS.

RECEIVED BY THE PRESIDENT.

EMPTY COMPLIMENTS.

THE OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

Paris, November 25.

Kruger received a demonstrative reception in Paris. M. Crozier, one of the officials of the Foreign Ofice, introduced him to such of the Ambassadors (1) as were present, who welcomed and handed him numerous addresses. The president of the municipality in welcoming him, declared that the good wishes of France would accompany him on his European mission. Kruger replied that the greetings he had received throughout France indicated the conviction of the nation in the righteousness of the Boer cause. The Boers, he added, had not ceased to demand arbitration. A. flood of oratory followed, but the keynote of the addresses of the deputations was " Good wishes for your pious pilgrimage through Europe." The thoroughfares and balconies were crowded, and Kruger was cheered along the entire route. Flowers were everywhere, and a new cry, " Vive l'lndependance," was conspicuous. There were to extra flags on the public buildings and order was excellently maintained.

Kruger alighted at his hotel, where he was welcomed by Mr. and Mrs. Eloff, the Princess Mathilde and the Princess Jeane Bonaparte, and the Dutch hymn was sung. In the afternoon Kruger, with an escort, drove to the Elysee, where he was received with military honours. President Loubet and M. Delcasse giving an audience of ten minutes. They afterwards returned Kruger's visit. Semi-official newspapers state there were no speeches at the audience, merely compliments passed and nothing of a political nature was said. France, these newspapers say, may congratulate herself on the Government's tact in satisfying the public, and at the same time uot offending Great Britain. Kruger seems tired since his arrival in Paris, and apparently disappointed with the hysteria and unreality of the demonstrations. He retired early yesterday and remained indoors all day. The members of the municipality of Paris are chagrined at the postponement of his reply to their invitation until to-morrow. London, November 26. The European press, commencing on Kruger's visit, says it is hopeless for him to expect anything beyond sympathy. The British press admits M. Rousseau's scrupulous correctness in his procedure regarding Kruger's visit also the abstention of the crowds from any exhibition of unfriendliness towards Great Britain and the moderation of the French press. Paris, November 26. In order to evoke enthusiasm, Kruger's suite display his granddaughters in Paris and (keep his great grandchild at a window of his hotel for hours together waving the Boer flag. BOER TOWNSHIP DESTROYED. London, November 25. General Smith-Dorrien destroyed the township of Dullstrom 6'ving to the residents harbouring and supplying the enemy with stores. OPERATIONS IN THE PETERSBURG DISTRICT. London, November 2C>. Colonel White, who is operating in the Pet'rusburg district, rescued a party that had been surrounded by the Boers, his force inflicting great loss on the enemy. A HUSSAR'S SELF-SACRIFICE. London, November 25. During a midnight raid on a Transvaal farmhouse, a Hussar, seeing a Boer rise up, rushed forward and received in the stomach a fatal shot intended for Major-General Broadwood. SIR A. MILNER'S HEADQUARTERS. London, November 25. ; Sir A. Milner establishes his final headquarters at Pretoria. ■

A QUIXOTIC APPEAL. - Paris, November 25. Henri Rochefort, the ex-Communist and editor of the Intrisigeont, a violently Radical paper, has appealed for an international subscription of 40,000,000 francs to equip 250,000 men to assist the Boers. i •• , - - - - SIR ALFRED MILNER. r v f*' ■ London, November 25. Sir A. Milner is overworked and will shortly recuperate on board the warship ; Doris. DEATH OF AN AUSTRALIAN. . . London, November 25. Trooper Gey, of New South Wales, has died of enteric fever. THE TRANSVAAL POLICE. *. London, November 25. Eleven thousand applications were received in London for 1000 vacancies ,in General Baden-Powell's Transvaal police force. DR. LEYDS. Paris, November 25. Dr. -Leyds attended a diplomatic dinner given by M. Delcasse in honour of Prince George of Greece. " CAPTURED BOER RIFLES. . ' Adelaide, November 25. Lord Roberts has cabled that he has in structed the despatch to Adelaide as noon at possible of 1500 Martini-Henry rifles, cap tured from. the Boers. A TROOPER WITH A BULLET IN HIS * LIVER. Melbourne, November 26. Private McCause, who was wounded ai Rendsburg early in the war, has been sub jected to the X rays, and the bullet located in his liver, after passing through the right lung. • • DEATH OP A NEW SOUTH WALES " TROOPER. Sydney, November 26. Trooper Ellis, of the New South Wale* Lancers, died on the Harlech Castle. THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENT. Albany, November 26. The Harleoh Castle, with the Australian Contingent, met with a great reception, the crew of the Royal Arthur participating. The officers landed, and were officially entertained at luncheon. There was great disappointment at Colonel Tom Price not allowing the men to land. RETURNING NEW ZEALANDERS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] , Wellington, Monday. The Defence Department has been ad* vised from Adelaide that Corporals W. M. Morrison and S. R. Palmer, both of Taranaki, are the men with those surnames on board the Harlech Castle. The message also states that Trooper McGregor is on board, but the Department states that no man of that name left with the First Contingent. The Harlech Castle will make Dnnedin her first port of cajfin New Zealand. LETTER FROM A TROOPER. , Lance-Corporal Gannon, of the Gisbome section of the Fourth Contingent, writes from Leemopan, near Vryburg, on September 22, as follows :"We left Ottoshoop on September 9, under General Douglas, and had a big engagement with the Boers, our [ big guns roaring all day. We advanced to Wadefontein and had another engagement with the enemy. The Boers fired their pompoms on our men without doing harm.. We are doing good work, and have secured many prisoners, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and many waggons, and have commandeered hundreds of head of cattle. i*am well. We will be moving from here o« Wednesday."