BOER WAR.
A CAVALRY BSOORT DBOIMATSD, POLICE PATROL AMBUSHED, MORE TREACHERY. ; HI ma ASSOOIATIOK. Beceived 5, 9.20 a.m, London, October 4. Sixty cavalry, escorting 22 waggons In the vicinity of Vryheid, were attacked by 140 Boers. Only twelve •soaped, and tke Natal Volunteers are far the remainder. The Seen ambushed a police patrol of fire men near Ladybrand. They ordered them to put up their hands * and then treacherously shot two dead and wounded two others. NEW ZEALAND_COHTINGENTB. Wellington, October 5. The Premier is advised by the Casualty Department, at Capetown, that . Private A. Anderson, of Hawke's Bay, is convalescent in i mp at Pretoria. Private Lloyd, of Taranaki, is believed to have rejoin' 1, but bis whereabouts is at piuent unknown.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 206, 6 October 1900, Page 3
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