GENERAL ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2425, 5 September 1900, Page 24

GENERAL ITEMS.

CAPETOWN, August 31. Ex-Ministei Saver has, without explanation, withdrawn the motion of which he had given notice in the Assembly calling upon Great Britain to slop the war and recognise the independence of the Republics.' The Hargrove revelations brought to light by the seizure of papers at Pretoria have greatly discredited the ex-Minister. LONDON, August 28.

The Boers have appropriated the supplies provided from the " Absent-minded Beggar " fund for the prisoners at Nooitgedacht.

The correspondence seized at Pretoria shows that, at Kruger's request, the Netherland Railway Company fia meed Hargrove, one of Dr Leyds's agents, who was afterwards closely associated v. ith Mi- J. W. Saver, ex-Minister of Public Works in the Cape Parliament, during Mr Saver's fruitless pacification mission in the Woderhouse district of the Cape early in the war, when Mr Saver warned~the burghers of the, terrible punishment ,to be expected for dis-., loyalty and the hopelessness of opposing the power of Great Britain. -„ " ; ••• '•" -"■_•<•- --- i " '-"August 29. , ; " - Cardna, wlioVwas shot s fpr complicity 1 niithe plot at 'Pretoria- t"o/aha.iicYLoid Roberts-, in a letter to his mother, j admitted, the justice of his .sentence. ■ v . August 30.. . The total -British losses in the Boer war up to date are set "down at 40.571. '. ' The following have died from disease 'at Johannesburg : — Farrier W. 0. Colvin; (No. 1 company, third contingent, 'son ofT Mr J. Colvin, M.H.R., Wei-tport) and Lance-corporal R. H. B. Upton (No. 1' company, third contingent, son of Mr T. E. Upton, of Ashburton). President Kruger and all his officials have [ rcoched Nelspruit. - .Seventeen boxes of bar goln from Watervalonder have arrived at Delagoa Bay. '- .Ersmith, member of the Volksraad^ and many burghers are sailing for Europe. It is reported at Delagop Bay "that the British have occupied Watcivaiboven and Watervalonder. The Boers are laagering between Nelspruit and the Crocodile. A Boer commando has cut the railway at Ladybrand, and are tlneatening Winburg. August 31. A cyclone did enormous damage at Mafeking. It levelled the camp, and the patients had to be transfeirecLin torrents of rain from the hospital. Lord Roberts suggests that -the' Cana« " dians' term of service should be extended for a" few months'. " • • A prisoner captured by General' BadenPowell reports that -Genei.il DeWet is dead. - * General Carrington is skirmishing between Zeerust and Mafekii {. September 1. • Fifteen hundred Boers, with two guns, are at Maqualling's Nek. Tbe^ British force at Ficksburg, in the Orange River Colony, has been reinforced. Colonel Kekewioh, from Kimberley, is hastening ' with the North Lancashire Regiment to Mafekiwg. j . ■ September 2. The- recent tornado wrecks 1 most. of tlie building's in Mafeking, including 'the field - hospital, 150 patients. • The ground Is" strewn-, with tents, bedding, medicine, and comforts, whilst the rushing water carried off the soldiers' kits. Many of the patients were struck with the flying wreckage, and several natives were either killed! or injured. Private Poole (Queensland) has died froia, enteric. ! September 3. * Commandant Theron's scouts cut the rail-* way in the vicinity ' of the .Klip River* x They burned a supply train of 28 trucks,; and captured 35 prisoners. * General Bra>» (Continued on page 29.)

The unassuming Rontgen Ray Appears to burn the flesh away And leave the white and ghastly bones. The cause for shudders, sighs, and groans J] So like a man who is ill with cold, Who thinks he's dead until he's told The way to health in manner sure Is taking Woods' Great Peppermint QjofSt