SOUTH AFRICA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9303, 16 November 1901, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICA.

Electric T**leg.ap*-— Copyright— Unit A Press Association. LONDON, Nov. 15. A patrol of district mounted troops was worsted at Jansenville by au insignificant force of Boera, a similar case to that which occurred at Somerset East, suggesting treachery. The regular officer commanding shot- most of the horses to prevent, the Boers capturing them. A commando numbering sixty raided South Darling to obtain fresh horses and punish lukewarm Dutch supporters. The Capetown Guards have been sent to repel them. Prominent members of the Afrikander Bond are severing their connection with it. They declare that the leaders of the Bond have misled the country and betrayed their followers. There are indications of a strong revulsion of feeling. (Received Nov. 16, 9.12 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 15. The Daily Telegraph correspondent describes the use by the Boers of expanding bullets m recent battles, and the callous robbery of dying and dead. Sandberg, Botha's aide-de-cam p, is lecturing m Franc e. He declares the Boers will insist on their independence, and the posses sicsn of Cape Colony, owing to British 'cruelty m the Transvaal and Orange Colony. Earl Selborne, speaking at Leeds, said the Boers were absolutely irreconcilable. If responsible government was granted them immediately they would use it, like their rifles, against us-- There must be an interim period for reconstruction on the basis of just, free, and firm government. Time would do the rest. Great Britain has granted Belgium £4000 to settle the cfiiit a of Belgians departed from South Africa.