CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 79, 24 April 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

(Br Electeic Telegraph —Copyright.)

BOER WAR.

ADDITIONAL CAPTURES.

OPPOSING DE WET'S MOVEMENTS,

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Received 23, 9.2 a.m. London, April 22. Lrrrd Kitchener reports tbat an additional 242 Boers, 248 rifl/s, a quantity of amniuuition acd waggons were captured. Kruitzinger is advancing on the Albart p'isViict of Capti Crlony. A'l raider have b on ordered to cross into the Orange River Colony. Received 23, 9.10 a.m. London, April 22. It is that 12,000 Boers are s'ill in tbe field. Botha crossed the Natal line intending to meet De We*, but was da ly opposed and ro-cro?sed eastwards. Carlwright, thetditar, wns sentenced to a year's irafirisonment for libelling L?rd Kit hener. A brother of J. W, Sauer has b;en cor.victed as the rirglcader i.f the, Cape Colony rebellion. SjuU'uce was defer ed,

SURRENDER Ob' A COMMANDO. PENAL-TIBS UXDKR MARTIAL LAW. REFUGEES IN' THE TRANSVAAL. THE WEEKLY COST OF THE WAR. Kccoivei !M, 10.30 p.m. London, April 23. Tiie Bogsbur;: comuiiindo of 106 men su rendered at M ddloturg. Lord Ki'chener has warned the residents of the districts under martial law th-it they a>o lia'ie to tho severest penalties if founi in arms, or inciting i rebfcll on.

The Bitish Princess with a pirtion of the New South Wales Imperial Druft Contingent arrived at Durban. In tbe " ii=s o[ Commons Mr. Brodrick stateu ■„..■ > e are 20,671 refugees in the •r.riisvivil concentration camps. All are rationed alike, children in the |crur t . re..-ivin» rdrvation. Hi aho stated the weekly erst of tho war was a I mi.lio:i aud a half.

PROMOTION FOKA NEW Z<SALANDEK.

Wellington, Apiil 23,

The Premier has ben informed by cablo that M»jor Madocks has been pacwiotod to the rank of major in the Royal Aitill.rv, as f n m November 29.