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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9071, 13 February 1901, Page 3

-• : {Electrio Telegraph— Copyright-United Press Association-) LONDON, Feb. 12. Major Haig;, m command of a strong mixed force, ia driving the Midland commando northwards past Aberdeen. The Boer invasion of Portuguese territory was intended to facilitate tha land- ] ing of an Austrian cargo of contraband j goods at Kosi Bay. British and Portuguese are on the alert. \ Kruger is still promising Botha that ; there will be European intervention. j Major Brereton, commanding Steyns- i burgh, has called m all the male fanners and others from 16 to 40 years of age lest the enemy commandeer them. If they disobey the order to join the commandos they are commandeered. If they are found m the ranks of the enemy they are guilty of high treason. Colonel Cunningham is watching Delorey's two thousand near Krugersdorp. A disloyalist at Kimberley has been sentenced to twelve months' imprison- s ment and a fine of £300 for uttering '. insults against the late Queen, and dis- i figuring her portrait. . < Corporal Campbell Parkinson, of the ' New Zealand Rough Riders, hits died of ] enteric at Pretoria. i There has been a sharp right at Klip- < kraal Junction. : Kniitzinger's commando killed sixSouth African Light Horse and Seventh ' Dragoon Guards, wounded eight, arid captured fifteen. Captain D. H: McLean, of the Im- j parial Yeomanry,, an Australian, who i rowed m the Oxford University boat races m the eighties, has died of fever at Joh- ' annesburg. ' (Received Feb. 13, 9.13 a.m.) I LONDON, Feb. 12. Mr Chamberlain, m approving of Sir Alfred Milner's reply to the resolutions '■ adopted by v the Africander Bond Congress, - recently held at Worcester, sf ated : "The ' Imperial Government does "not intend to alter its disclosed policy m South Africa. The Republics were responsible for the adoption of such a policy." The Standard's Pretoria correspondent ' states that great consternation exists amongst the Boer leaders on the confines of Swaziland, who fear they will be com- 1 pelled to abandon their huge convoy and ' guns or risk a general engagement. 1 Commandant Saul Elofif, Kruger's ' grandson, and four other Boer prisoners ; seized a fishing boat at St. Helena, but failed to secure the oars. They were ' arrested. < Five hundred tons of the German ] steamer Somerfield's cargo has been salv- ' ed m fair condition. < COLONIAL REINFORCEMENTS. ' MELBOURNE, Feb. 13. The Minister of Defence has received a cable from the Imperial authorities ask- | ing to be allowed to recruit a thousand i mounted constabulary for South Africa \ within the Commonwealth. No terms | are stated. ; BRISBANE, Feb. 13. | The Government have offered to sencf j more troops to South Africa. i WELLINGTON, this day. J A cable message from the High Com- J missioner at Capetown, under yesterday's 1 date, says : "Corporal Parkinson, of the > Third Contingent, hailing from Kaituna, 1 died of enteric fever on the 6th. Troopei 1 E. O. F. Von Dadelzon (Third Contin ' gent), Napier, and Private Robert (Fiftl ! Contingent), Nelson, are dangerously ill 1 at Pretoria. ' - ' ]