BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 200, 28 September 1900, Page 3

BOER WAR.

ENORMOUS QUANTITIES OF DAMAGEI AMMUNITION AND STOREB. - EIGHT MILES OF ROLLING STOOK. r PORTUGUESE URGING SURRENDER. 3 [PUB PBESa .ASSOCIATION.] j (Received 27, 9.30 a.m.) London, September 26. The Boers sent fifty truck loads of . ammunition to Delagoa Bay before s they surrendered, and alse burned mucb j ammunition. 3 Mr. Bennett Burleigh saw, near Crocodile River, t ires of damaged gun J ammunition, damaged limbers, wag- , gons, detonators, 3nd stores. He also , saw at Komati Pocrt hundreds of tons ' of damaged ammunh' <n, a large num--5 ber of broken rifles fid touts, as well } as large quantities of damaged proj visions and baggage. Mr. Krugor, yielding to the request . of the Portuguese, persuaded Com- , mandant Pin- " not to destroy Komati , railway bridge. ! Twelve guns, the majority damaged, t were found at Hectorspruit. The wholo of the railway rolling ! stock lately in the Transvaal was spread , for eight miles along the Selati railway ; line. The rolling stock has been captured | and all is in good condition, except some burnt waggons and carriages, The Portuguese officials at Delagoa Bay have sent emissaries to the Boers urging them to yield. NEARING THE END. Received 27, 10.10 a.m. London, September 28. A strong flying. column, under Colonel- De Lisle, has left Pretoria in pursuit of Commandant De Wet. Each trooper has two horses, and double teams accompany the guns, transports, and Cape earts. CANADIANS LEAVING FOR HOME. Q BATTERY'S GUNS FOUND AT CROCODILE. (Received 27,11.20 p.m.) London, September 27. Sixteen Canadian officers and 319 men left Capetown homeward bound. Two twelve pounders belonging to the Q Battery, are among the guns found at Crocodile River. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SETTLERS AND SOUTH AFRIQA. 1 NOT WISE TO GO AT PRESENT. FURTHER ENQUIRIES TO BE MADE. Received 28,1 a.m. Adelaide, September 27. At the request of a member of the Council, the Governor, who li; s made . enquiries on the prospects Tor farmers in South Africa, says be had ascertained two facts which will not allow farmers to go at present or they will be ruined, and secondly not to go to Rhodesia but to the Orange River Colony. Sir A. Milner, in a letter to the Governor, promises to supply him with any information available with regard to the prospects of farming and its conditions.