THE WESTERN FRONTIER.
CAPETOWN. Uvrch 8.
The Boers besieging Mafeking are viking the streets of the town with a new si<_gc gun. Typhoid and dysentery are also prevalent. The garrison aie despondent, but determined to hold out.
President Steyn i« urging Comnrmdaht Snyman to storm the town and then hasten to his assistance, as the Free Stale is hard pressed.
The garrison at Mafeking has been eating horseflesh arcl weevily biscuits since the beginning of the siege. The killed, wounded, and deaths from disease total 290.
March 9.
A Russian Jew has been sentenced to three years at Kimberley for signalling to the enemy.
LONDON, March 8.
The residents of Kimberley declare that the Boers killed the British who were lying wounded during "Major Scott-Turner's sortie from the town in December.
March 11
Commandos have arrived at Bloemhof to resist the troops going to Mafeking or Klerksdop.
H. Bin-roughs, a, New Zealander, died from enteric fever at Kimherlev.
March 12. Boer prisoners affirm that the siege of Mafeking has been raised.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2402, 15 March 1900, Page 23
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