SPEECH BY LORD ROBERTS. A RED CROSS SHIP.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8663, 4 November 1899, Page 3

SPEECH BY LORD ROBERTS. A RED CROSS SHIP.

THE FRENCH AMAZED. (Received Nov. 4, 9.15 a.m.) London, Nov. 3. Lord Roberta, in a speech at Kilkenny, expressed his confidence in Sir Redvers Buller and General White. The PrinceßS of Waleß is organising a fund for providing ft Red Cross ship, also for spending £1000 for providing comforts for the loops. The War Relief Fund amounts to £103,000. Paris, Nov. 3. The French are amazed at the calmness and stoicism of the British m the face of the recent reverse at Ladysmith. SPEECHES BY BRITISH STATESMEN. London, Nov. 3. • The Marquis of Landsdowne, Secretary for War, Bpeaking at the annual banquet of the Cutlers' Guild, said the Boer ultimatum followed mobilization. If mobilization had occurred earlier the ultimatum would have been made earlier. The participation of the colonies ia the war was an event unprecedented in the. Empire's history. A limit had been regretfully imposed on their participation, but their offera for service were proof that the term Great Britain was no empty phrase. The granting of equal rights was rightly valued by colonists. Lord Charleß Beresford, Bpeaking at the Cutlers' feast, feared that insufficient troops had been sent to the Transvaal. He apprehended that waverers among the Cape Dutch would join the Boeis.