GENERAL ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2396, 1 February 1900, Page 38

GENERAL ITEMS.

CAPETOWN, January 29. Troops and ammunition are rapidly arriving at Capetown.

LONDON, January 29. The Boers report that a shell wounded JDr Jameson in the leg at Ladysmith.

Several newspapers urge the mobilisation tof the navy in view of possible dangers on ; lhe Continent.

Lord Roberts's momentous decision is jjagerly awaited.

Consols show a further fall, and ore now Quoted at 100.

Public feeling in Britain is depressed jDVer the Spion Kop disappointment. The toiilitary resolution to persevere is unimpaired.

Dr Leyds .states that false secret inforfiiation. supplied to the British authorities paused the seizure of the Btmdesrath and Mother vessels, with a view to embroiling Britain, with the Powers. CALCUTTA, January 29. % remarkable monster meeting of Hindus

and Mohammedans was held here, representing all parts of India.

Resolutions of abiding loyalty to the Empire and ■supplementing the Lord Mayor of London's war relief fund vrere carried. Several maharajahs spoke.

The newspaper The Englishman, an influential Calcutta daily, describes the proceedings as the most flattering tribute the Empire has ever received.

Mr J. H. Keddell, of Clyde, has volunteered for service. Mr J. Butler, of Bald Hill Flat, has promised him a horse, and the town of Clyde will, in the event of his acceptance, present Mr Keddell with an outfit.

Mr W. Gordon, of Balclutha, who was tinsuccessful in his endeavours to become enrolled in the second contingent, has been invited to present himself at Christchurch for medical examination, with a view to enrolment in the third contingent.