MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
(Received 17, 9.20 a.m.) London, April 16. Sir Alfred Milner, with the assent of Lord Roberts, has complained of the great number of visitors who have come to South Africa withouo special call or business, especially ladies, who are greatly hampering the military and civil officers in the execution of their duties.
Lord Robert* complains that British prisoners are forced to bivouac on the open veldt. In consequence, there are ninety cases of enteric fever at Waterval, outside Pretoria. The rebels poisoned the wells on the road to Kenhardt.
Schiel bribed a boatman to cany a letter to a Dutch cruiser, but by some mistake the boatman delivered it to H.M.S. Niobe.
Mr. Hay, American Consul at Pretoria, has received 6| tons of presents for British prisoners. The Daily Mail states that two German Maxims and a quantity of ammunition, destined for Pretoria, has' been detained at Delagoa Bay by the Portuguese. I Lieut. Macartney, a Victorian who was wounded at the battle of Pieter's Hill in February, is convalescent. He had a bullet in his head from ear to ear.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 90, 18 April 1900, Page 3
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183MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 90, 18 April 1900, Page 3
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