THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 196, 19 September 1900, Page 3

THE WAR.

OPERATIONS IN THE TRANSVAAL. i GENERAL FRENCH'S REMEDY FOB SNIPING. AWARD OF VICTORIA CROSSES. (PEE PHESS ASSOCIATION,) (Received 18, 10.25 a.m.) London, September 17. General French, being annoyed at , the Boers sniping after he had occupied Barberton, threatened to withdraw and bombard the town ; sniping thereupon ceased. Received 18, 10.28 a.m. London, September 18. Two members of Sferathcona's Canadian Ilorsu have been awarded Victoria Crosses. NEW ZEALAND OFFICERS RELEA3ED AT BAivBJSKTON. COLONIAL CASUALTIES. (Received 18,10.55 p.m.) Loxdou, September 18. sun Bourti'j and Liwit. 1 .'.'.memo we •. J at i ags& tb.j Iv'ew ZoaLnderu uloiistd ut .Barbenoa. The casualties wore : —TVmmi?, ; Privates Bailey killed and Ricunrdson wounded; Njw South Wales, Private ; Black, died of pneumonia. t

NEW SOUTH WALES OFFICER KILLED WHILE SCOUTING. (Keceived 18,10.65 p.m.) Sydney, September 18. Lieut. White and Lance-Corporal King, of the New South Wales Bushmen, -,vero killed at Wonderfontein. Lieut. White was killed instantaneously while scouting. A DAILY MAIL STATEMENT LORD ROBERTS TO START FOR HOME ON OCTOBER 3bd. TO VISIT NATAL BATTLEFIELDS i?A' ROUTE. (Received 19, 0.30 a.m.) London, September 18. The Daily Mail states that Lord Roberts starts for home on October 3rd, visiting the Nata: battlefields en route. The Queen dissolves the Imperial Parliament on Tuesday next, but summonses it again for November 3rd. WV ZEALAND CONTINGENTS. RETURNED INVALIDS. RELEASED PRISONERS. Wellington, September 18. Mr. Seddon has received the following cable from the Premier of Tasmania : —" Kumara, with a party of invalided troops for New Zealand, in charge of Lieutenant Wall, left Hobart; all doing well." The Premier has received tho following cablegram from Sir Alfred Milner, dated September 17th: —"New Zaaland prisoners of war released at Sooitgedicbt ware. Lance-Sergeant A. McDonald (Hao'dngs), Lance-Corporal 'L'. B. Richardson (Hawke's Bay), Troopers T. M. D.ivis (Hawke's Bay), J. 0. Hughes (Napier), H. T. Whitson (Hawke's Bay), K. I). Smith (Waimate), J. W. Harrison (Ohoviot), J. Kennington (Marlborough), W. McLennan (V/ariganui), 11. McCulloch (Waipawa), It. Lloyd (Havora), J. , Wri.riii (Watujaiiui), J. Aniteisou j (' otpuvi, A. u. One th), (J. K. Cross (rt.i'.vu), -J. O. D-.vyur (Blenheim), <in.i i>'. i'l. Mo Kendo (who enlisted ia South Africa). This accounts for all the New Zealand prisoners wno were captured at Reitoleion 16th July." A GALLANT NEW ZfiALANDER. Auckland, September 18. Among the passengers who went south by the Elingamite to-day was Sergeant Hosting, of Masterton, who was through the siege of Mafeking. He went to England in 1897, and subsequently went to the Cap?, joining Hore's Protectorate Regiment when there was a prospect of war. That regimenS was in Mafeking when the Boer ultimatum was delivered. Hosking , tells an interesting story of the siege. . After the relief of Mafeking he went I to England with his father, Dr. Hosking (who went to South Africa with the New Zealanders). At the final Boer assault on Mafeking he was injured in the hip by an explosive bullet. "