MISCELLANEOUS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4082, 21 June 1900, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS.

/LONDON, Juno 19. Lieut. . Harrison, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, has died of wounds received in the fight at Ecrste Fabriekeu. '

The railway tunnel under Lang’s Nek, which the Boers had Blown up, has been repaired by the British engineers, and re-opened to traffic. (Received June 21. 0.45 a.m.) LONDON. June 20.

Eight hundred of the rebels at Kurumari inquired the terms oh which their surrender would he. accepted. They were told that it .would have to be unconditional.

The Delagoa Bay railway bridge near; Hectorspruit has collapsed, and goods traffic is impeded. The .Boers suspect that structure was undermined by escaped British prisoners.. Genera! Eloff and two,hundred others who were captured by the Mafoking garrison due I ;r the last assault out ho town have bee i lodged in gaol at Kimberley on their way south.

The Bon. H. J. Miller, Speaker of the Legislative Council, has received a cable message from his soil; Trooper G. R. Miller, 'who was one of the New Zealanders captured by the Boers in the Kooriupruit ambush. , Trooper Miller war, amongst the prisoners liberated in consequence of Lord. Roberts’s occupation of Pretoria. " He states that though ho had suffered during his captivity from lack of rations, and had

developed enteric fever, ho is hopeful of making a speedy recovery. On. April 22nd, Sir Alfred Milner, Governor of Cape Colony and High Commissioner of British South -Africa, received an address to the Queen present - ed on behalf of ',t'ho Loyal Women’s Guild of South Africa. Addressing the deputation Sir Afford Milner said that the latest political rod herring was an at tempt to confuse the minds of the people as to the real issue of the struggle which was, whether South Africa was to he inside or outside the Empire. Ho hoped thero would be no distinction in loyalty between people born at the Cape and those coming from outside. Ho disclaimed the idea that criticism of himself implied disloyalty and deprecated tho mania, of suspicion whch was at the present moment abroad in tho land and which had in several cases resulted in the ostracism of loyal handies. .