BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 47, 11 March 1901, Page 2

BOER WAR.

| BOERS KEPUI.SS AT LICHTJJNBURG. Itecoived 9, 9.37 a,ro. I Loisso.v, March 8. j A total of 97& Boers are known to ■ have bo.n disabled since the operations lin the eastern dltucts commenctd. Five thousand move cattle, 14,000 sheep, and 100 waggons, and much forage and ammunition have: beun captured. fctsitacker's scoats unearthed treasure worth several tht usanda of pounds at Helpmakw. Recoivod 9, 10.35 a.m. Losdon, Maroh 6. General French reports having captured a fourteen pound or crouz:t and a hotchkiss, making a t.tal of seven guns captured. The Boer attack on X.;cht?nbui'g failed. Sixteen British woio kil'f d and twenty wounded General Colliers was amongst the Birrs killed.

BOTHA'S PEACffi OVERTURES. A SEVEN DAYS' ARMISTICE. (Racaived 9, ;>,f 0 p.m.) ! Losbon, March 8. ' Router's 'representative at Dclagoa s Bay reports news has reached the;u that Kitshener has granted Botha a I fevtn d:iya armistice. , Other reports show that the Boer leaders acd Lord Kitchener have been J negotiating at Midtlleborg for sever#', days. | LORD KITCHENER'S TERMS, DK WET AND STKYN EXCLUDED. THE REBELS MOVING NORTH. CARRYING OFF LIKELY INFORMKRB. Received 10, 4.55 p.m. London, March 9. The Times' Pretoria correspondent, repsrfced on Wednesday that Botha's und Lord Kitchener's negotiations at Middleburg were in abeyance, panding the British Government's answer to the submitted proposals. j Tho Daily Chronicle states that I Botha and a majority of his officers I approved Lord Kilchener's terms of a general amnesty for all who surrender, also for 'prisoners, excepting the ch'ef Cape Colony rebels; Great: Btitain to help in reinstating tboso amcts'ied on ] farms. t Da Wet and S'eyn firojlexcluded. ' | They replied to B-jtha tliey a)e irre- " I coiici'able tc tli • terms j 1 ! T!,p Times' fcofre.'ponf'cnfc at S»- ij,' thune'fl he,idijUi.!'toiv, tinder date of |c VYednosfi.'y, rwpo-ts tha' Do V7it, seven hundroi! men, travers* d Jamt-j smith, northwards, baing a few hours j K in advance of C.k ijethune atd m

Vluium', ~A <-o'<lon 'of Tlieivn f H scout* nir.rlcod tho odoiuv'.h movements. When '/oloii-.O Betlrj*:i was at]Jßiofc Hiv< r tho em:my, with n view to rallying furthr nortli, broko and .scattered, removing all tho whites und blacks likely to furnish information to tho British. A BOER LAAGER dURPRISEI). Da WETT GENERALSHIP. RAIDERS OCCUPY WARABBORG. REI3IDENT MAGISTRATE IMPRISONED; Received 10, 5 4 p.m. London, March 9. Col. Bbthune ou Wednesday surprised a Boer laager and captured many mulo waggons and much stosk. | 'l ua Daily Telegraph coirespondaat "•tatoa that Col. Plumer on Tuesday killod nineteen Boars near Fauresmith. De Wet by means «f a ruse sent Ceuimandant Kroiifman and 400 men to trek north and they crossed the Modder River n; ar Abraham's Kraal on Wedmesr!:ty, whilo Steyn and De Wot with tho rcnaindtr of the force we ri' refiling wear iSpringfoiitain. Tiirc.e hundred r.sido.w have occupied Maraisburg, imprisoning Mr. 0, K. Vaughan the R sident Magistrate and four ; olicw. Tho iiritiVh had previously transferred all focd stuffs and clothing to Cradock.

SEVENTH CONTINGENT. For tho additional fire places in the tho Seveath Contingent to he filled from New Plymouth over 100 applications were received. This number was reduced, aftor considerable pains and after a medical examination by Dr. McCleland, to six, the following being chosenMessis. Jones (Hawera), Baird (Stratford), D* Launay (New Plymouth), Kendall (Fitzroy), and Gry'ls (Inglswood), They proceed to Wellington by the mail train to-4ay.