MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 90, 12 April 1900, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

(Received 11, 9 am.) London, April 10. A bogus trial has been held at Johannesburg with a view to demonstrate that Ittr, Reitz'g threats to destroy the mines were a mere pretence. The seizure of the banks by the British at JB'oemfontein has hampered Mr. St.eyn. The Free State Bank at Krooiiatad is unable to pay money, and a loat is being raised in the Transvaal to meet the uiflkulty. Tae War Office hasßigned a contract for fodder which runs into October. Received 11, 9.50 a.m Teeth, Ap. il 10. The Miori has arrived at Albany, after a splendid passage. Men and horses all well. (Received 12, 1.30 a.m.) London, April 11. There is abundant couUcmation that the arms turrenderod by the Free (Staters were obsolete, and that they havo resumed their Mausers and re- ; joined tbe rebels. The commandoes neek a strategic opening, and threaten 1 JJothulie, but a brigade of British ' troops rigorously gu.ud ail communica- i lions, : CJItONJK AT ST. 11KU2NA. i Received 12, 2 a.m. London, April'.ll, Cronje lias arrived at St. Helena. Twenty thousand horses from Auskalia } Buenos Ayres, andKew Orleans l

will be landed at Capetown during April and Maj, The B.s. Duke pf Portland, with the Queensland Bushmen, has sailed (or Behu, where many Bushmen have already arrived, i MORE BOER QUNS, The Boers have received thirty new (June, some of which are big. They were .> landed at a western port as machinery, and travelled three months overland, A BOER STATEMENT. Mr. Fischer, interviewed at Naples, asks an acceptable peaoe or a truce, with a view to subsequent He declares that Lord Roberts will never reach Pretoria, owing to lack of horses preventing him traversing ui impracticable desert.