BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 55, 25 March 1901, Page 2

BOER WAR.

~ *~~~3Wn»»^~ bhitish mvisioN4lfonSnil^ RETURNED TEOOPB. m tdm laaoounoK. Received 88, 9.29 a , B ike divisional commandi are sUueneraia BIIIOU, Ch.rles Knoi, LTtteU ton, and Bundle respectively. Reooived 23, P. J 6 lb, , S*»ney, March 23 Fifteen New Zoalandew returned br the troopship Victorian from the due and landed after the vwsul had been fumigated, IMPORTANT BLUK BOOK ISSUID. NEGOTIATIONS FOR PBAOB. (Receded 23,10.22 a.m.) at„ , J-ondon, Mawh 2f. A Ulue Book just k*ued dealing with tbo negotiations with Both*, shows Lord Kitchener refused to discuss the question of independence of the Bepublics. '

Ho explained the proposed political administration, which seem to satisfy Both when convinced that immediate representative Government wet im-pof-s'ble.

The terms offered inolode the replacement ef military by Crown Colony administration with a representative eUment, and ultimately self-Govarn-ment.

The Dutch and English languages to be allowed in schools and Law Courts as the Acs agress. The GoTer.rn.nt will devote a million to the repayment, for «oods commandeered by the Republican governments. LORD KITCHENBR'h PBaO* PBOPOBALB. 200 BOBRS SORRENDF,«D A* IDBWBTSDOkp. LaRGB OAPrURaTor BHBKP AMD awlred 2*. 6J pja. Bit-A. Milner and Mr. Chamberlain medifiedl Lord Kitchener's proposals at sen to*tha«th.7*,io ? t n TXes that Bntau required the complete eeuation of hostilities aid snrrender of all nftes, cannon, M d amnwoitlon, offered amnesty t 0 Beers for bona fid* acts of war; prisoner to be repatriated as quickly as pofsihle; farmera on taking the oath of allegiance to be aeaatol by a loan to repair injuries to buikiinflo and loesw of stock; no epeetal war tax to be imposed «n farmers and btt '«"«» «•> teJdog thooetb. Two hundred of be Wet'a gad Founes ragged barghera anmaderod aetr Dewetsdorp, aod capered 6P ' Dd 10, m *""■ *"• ♦JfS itoh,Mr *•• **">•* Both* that the terms of peace will be ea*. celled if aot accepted. THI MODIFIED TERMS OF PBAOE. DEATH SENTENCE OONFISMBD. DE WBT UNEARTHING GONB. BecsiTed 24, 5.17 p.m It js intended to .end * thousand Beer prisoners to Madras, and Bomb.* respectively. -"••■■y T, :° "■aHfc? ProroHolsaentto Both* provided that licapsoa *. O retain miutnry fire arm-, where newasary for the prZ tection against natives will be issuedhcenees w,U also be granted for sport! mg rifles. i"™*" K»ffira are not to be enfranchised befora representative government is grafted, and never to the extent of on"ianpenng white predominance. The legal position of the coloured people to be similar to that at tb» Cape.

Lard Kitchener confirmed the omit*! sente.ee pacsed on DeJMgerfV « [burgher, at Harrismith, for killinr three native.., one of them in a mo & cold blooded manner.

[ Dejaegers has been executed i General Hamilton secured mxkt primen n th. Ladybrand district. fj?!!,7i uoe«rth«d,at two of Oommandaat Primko'i gnu.

A MINISTERIAL STATMiEST.

Received 23,12.56 a.m) London, March 24" In the Houee of Cannon. Mr. Obamberlainftatfd that Both. Hiud no specifio objections to Lord KUchenerß terms but «tro» objections against Sir A. Milner

SEVENTH CONTINGENT.

'. Th« « *■"»<»«, Match 23. Tho Smn Contingent to ß .^». Nt^ U T : '~ Staft wgiment.l S*rgt,Major P. G. Pric*- Quartermaster SergK-M»jor A. Q. B mit h. 17 R * t,naße '«t- 0. H. Taylor O.dcily Ro,m Corporal, F. W. Cmpiu ; Bugler Sergeant, 0. Woads ;, Denser W. Jefi# Wellington; Company Oolour-Sargfc, 0. B. LocW. D.v.s.onal Sergeant,, A. Pet*rs, n . H.S.N. Kobmson, F. W. Parker'S«rgto, K. Hilpia, T. W.Telford,/ Cri«»;Oorpor»L, E. A. Pointon, Jl A. F. Cull, 0. Watt; Bugler, P. Mi.iSFamer, J. Q u i nD . The transport Gull of Tarante, , n which the TO nt£oW will be taken to South Africa, is deW Z at Newcastle owing to the strik* - * canrot roach here before tbo, ' " d lo fall up time the men wilfl autn ' through the country districts J" 81 * 11 afcTieuthara. -ad camp