MISCELLANEOUS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 3956, 23 January 1900, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS.

LONDON, January 21. Tho War Office , notifies that Victor Jones, tho Queenslander, Was killed in tho engagement at Sunnysidc (northwest of Belmont), and that Arthur Jones (the Victorian), who was reported to have been killed, is alive and well. It has .been ascertained that President Kruger’s imports of food from America have been doubled since March. Fresh and stringent ticket regulations have been adopted in connection with the departure of Hamburg steamers for Delagoa Bay. Lady Duff (widow of Sir Robert Duff, at one time Governor of New South Wales!, and a number of other Anglocolonial ladies are shipping comforts and tobacco for the New South Wales contingent. *.• ADELAIDE, January 22. Large shipments of breadstuffs are being luade from this colony to South Africa. “ There is one thing that upsets the Boers,” writes a Gordon from Ladysmith. “They don’t like us moving in the night.” Among the Guards killed at Belmont were Private St. John, the champion boser i f Wales, and Private Hickling, who played back for Walsall. It is reported (says the London “Daily (Mail ”) that tho Irish National Society shipped JoO men to : South Africa from Philadelphia on November 23, and that Chicago is'ready with another 1000. “We had a glorious charge,” writes one of tho sth Lancers after Elands Laagte; “such slaughter was never seen before. There was but one cry, and that was ‘ Majuba Hill.’ Dozens of us lost all count of tho number wo pierced with that terrible weapon, the lance.”