AFTER THE WAR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12385, 21 June 1902, Page 7

AFTER THE WAR

BRITISH AND BOER FRATERNISE. THE CAPE .REBELS Compensation for Damages, Press Ascoriation—By Telegraph-Copyright. CAPE REBELS. LONDON', Juno 1!). (Received June 20, at il.lo a.m.) Six hundred and ninety (mostly Capo rebels) surrendered at Calvinwi, bringing the total surrender.'? to date to ISj-JOO.

LORD JITLNER TO RE INSTALLED.

GENERAL FRENCH'S THANKS. LONDON, June 20. (Reorived June 20, at 10.M1 p.m.) Tin' Doers ni'e bcsienin;' the stores at. Bloemfoiitein, exchanging their ragati'il garments for now. Lord llilnor will he installed Governor of the Transvaal to-morrow. General Erench, at .Micldlebnrc;, ibunked the inhabitants, and especially tlw DnMi, for llieir loyalty, lie hoped own the rebels would be met lmlf way in a friendly spirit.

DEATH OF A NEW ZEALANDER

LONDON, June 20. (Received June 20, at 10.81 p.m.) Private Robert Luing, of the 'Ninth New Zealand Mounted*, died at Elandsfontein of dysentery.

BOER AND BRITISH FRATERNISE.

I)E WET'S CIRCULAR. LONDON, .Juno L'O. There have been 5800 surrenders in the Orango River Colony. . liners anil British are everywhere fratornipinp; .cordially. Burghers generally inking the oath of surrender under the terms of peace are required to individually tub-cribe to the conditions. l)e Wet, in a circular to his adjutants, pays: " That- you and I and every burgher can win the heart of the new Government by our future conduct I am not in the least doubtful."

COMPENSATION FOR (DAMAGE,

LONDON, June 20. In the House of Commons, Mr Chamberlain said that the CH,000,000 mentioned in 1 ho terms of surrender would not be applied to loyalists' compensation. The compensation for Cape and Natal— amounting to £2,ooo,ooo—would be chargeable to the Transvaal out of the first loan raised, except for damage iu the Cape by rebels and natives, which falls on tbe Cape Government. A SECOND DECORATION. Mr Erodrick has announced that the King is granting a second decoration to troops completing IB months' service in South Africa.

NKWS OF THK SICK.

(Pen United Pr.sss Association',) WELLINGTON, June 20. The Governor has been advised as follows from South Africa: —U. Laing, of Dalclutha, died of dysentery at I'lamUfuulein 011 .lime 17 j 11. hi. Collisou, ltakaia, was accidentally killed at Forthay on Juno 16. Tito following uro dangerously ill of enteric:— (I. Atkii'.iion, Waivoi South; Sergeant P. Campbell, Christehureh; K. Maker, Waikato; ]!. Gooding oE Xgaire, 'I'nranrAi; and (!. Cox, Oainaru. \Vm. AY. Hotter, Waikouaiti, is ill of dysentery; I'. Lee, of Woodlands, Southland, and W. Grant, Middlcinareh, Otago, are both suffering from injuries. THK SHVUXTH CON'TIX'GKNT, AUCKLAND, .lime 20. Mr AVitbeford baa wired to Sir ,1. Ward asking Hint, the returning Seventh Contingent should land at Auckland, there being 70 Auckianders among thein, to avoid the change to the more severe cold of the southern ports. Sir ,1. (1. Ward has replied to Mr Witheford llmt the troop-hip with the Seventh has already left Sydney. lIKTUJIXIXG FROM TIIK WAT!. WELLINGTON, June ?.0. Tho Acting-Premier is advised that the Ruapehu left Capetown on June 15 for Wellington with Lieutenants Simpson, Duncan, and i'rarier, Surgeon-captain Deck, and H men of various contingent.'; also two men of the Imperial Light Uorr-.'.

. A Wansanui telegram flatus tliat a meet"'ft "f tritizpiis doi-itlcHl to erect a pcrmalicnt memorial tr, tho.-e from that distriet who fell in ,Smith Africa. The l>,nron ß h Lomiril has uranlril £50, and mhicrinliuns are to he invited.