SOUTH AFRICA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9099, 18 March 1901, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICA.

(Electric Telegraph— Copyright— United Press Association-.) LONDON, March 16. De Wet is now at Senekal. Mr St. John Brodrick, speaking m the House of Commons, announced that if further shipments of the Boers were necessary, Government would consider the suggestion of sending them to Australasia, instead of Ceylon and India. The British victims executed by order of Delarey were named Boyd and McLaughlin. They were naturalised burghers, Dutch. The victims had refused to violate the oath of neutrality. The British surprised and captured a laager at Krugerspost, with a quantity of cattle and grain and 32 prisoners. There were six Boer casualties and five British. Lieutenant Collet, of the New Zealand Mounteds, has been discharged from the hospital, and has resumed duty. Troops arriving at South Africa are landing at East London, Port Eliabefch, instead of at Capetown, owing to the plague. Commandant Fouries has collected 700 Boers m the vicinity of Dewetsdorp. • De Wet has declared that next to the Britishers he hates the Transvaalers. He repudiates Botha's peace negotiations. The Times' Kaalspruit correspondent states that- it is reported that Botha, Delarey, and De Wet meet on the 18th to discuss the situation. A Reuter's despatch states that DeWet is concentrating roving bands of Boers at Dornberg and Koramberg. Colonel Park captured Abel Eramus at Lvdenburg. LONDON, March 17. Many Boers are daily surrendering at Bremensdorp. The Boers are manufacturing ammunition at Pietersburg. Three thousand four handled troops sailed for South Africa on Saturday. .