BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 23, 24 January 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

IDBBPATCH OK DRAGOONS TO Tfltf CAPS. Receired 23, 4.50 a.m. Lqnlon, January 22. Major Sir Arthur Lushingten, with 550 of the Third Dragoon Guards, embarked at Quoenstown for the Cipe at fiveo'clock this morning, Theyohcoreo the tidings received from Osborne that the Qutea was s'ightly better.

BOERS SELLING HORSES AND ARMS. (Received 23, 7.55 a.m.) London, January 22. | Fourt ten Bo> rs wore killed at Taungi on January 14ih, Picquetburg is crowded with Dutchmon eellieg fcorsyfi to Hi« English, ai.d I selling arms and ammunition. Goneral BibingUin hws txpelled the Boers frcra MakarskraaJ. The Cape authorities are straining every nerve to send men to the front \ Sadd.'ers are working eight and day. | The Colonial troops hava formed 8 abase at Malruesburg. 1 THE WItONG DE WET, i (Received 23. 7.54 p.m.) S London, January 22. | lteutov reports that General Chris|,ian ])e Wet is still in the Orangt [liver Colony, and that the Do "VVet vho is with Genoral Louis ]}otha in ;ho Transvaal is merely a namesake. The Boor leadors are sedulously iniercepting and destroying copies ol Lord Kitchener's proclamation. General Clements has withdrawr from a position fifty miles south-wesl of Johannesberg to Pretoria, Cecil Smith, of the New Zealanc Rough Riders, died of dvsentrv » Maf eking. In a fight at Bushman's Krante oi January 16th, there wero sixteei

!*M;ritisb ctisiinlticA, chiefly among the !' irst iSiflo Brigade. ADVISE TO KRUGBB. SUGGFSTM) HON FEDERATION. (llescivod 23, 7.54 a.m.) London, January 22. British officials collect 6'ustoms luticH at Del.'igoa Bay on all goods lestined lor tho Transvaal handing IT) )c> - cent, to tho Portuguese. Mr. Bennett l.'urloigh reports thai i majority of the Board of member? !i>nmrissionod by the Afrikander ea;lex*, Mr. Merriman, counsel Mr. v i tiger to abandon his hopeless demand or Boer independence. I Mr. Ivi'ugor is further advised to jseek a confederation of South African iptates, giving the colonies local control on a population basis, thus avoiding direct Grown Government. NEW ZEALAND TROOPERS ILL. Wellington, January 23. A. Milntr advises tho ActingPmaier that Private Murphy, ol Marshland, Canterbury, and Prsvatf Vlors, of Winchester, both of the Nev\ Zealand Contingents, are daagerouslj 11, the former at Kimberley and tht latter at Pretoria.