CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXIII, Issue 82, 27 April 1901, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

liY Klkotric Tklbgrafh.—CormamJ

BOER WAR. PKB PIIEBS ASSOCIATION. | lleceiveii 2(i, '.Ot n.m. LoN-noN, April T ;o Daily Chwnkh publishes an ixtiuordinary report to the effect that Boer agents ncting its cattlemen inocu'atecl horses shipped for South Africa from !No-,v Origins with g'anders and other diseases, vvlt'i the result that a hundred died f.n tlio voyage and others were destroyed on nrriv&l at the Oapo. The Cape Times and other paper* demand the suppression of the Afrikander Bond. They declare the Bond's whole objteb is to secure the non-finality of a South Africm settlement.

CAPTURK OK PRISONERS.

AN UNEXPLAINED DISASTER.

ANOTHER PATROL AMIIUBHBO. '

Received 2fi, 9.57 p.m.

London, April 29,

Lord Kitchener ireporti the capture of 113 prisoners and a twelvo-poundtr. Krupp. Lieut. Beatty, Victorian, was killed and seven men slightly injured. The circumstances of the disaster are not indicated.

The 47 inch gun recently captured by the Boers at Helvetia was found destroyed. The Boers, in ambush, captured a patrol at Badfontein, killling Major E. H. 8. Twoford.

SENTENCES FOR TREASON. FURTHER CAPTURES. (Received 27, o*6 a.m.) Jacobus De Wet,; Christian's uncle, has been sentenced'"to eighteea months' imprisonment and fitild £350 on a charge of treason. : 'At Barkley East, J. W. Sauers, brother of William, was convicted as the ringleader of the Cape rebellion and sentenced to a year. Eight other treason prisoners were fiDed sums ranging from £250 to £SOO. Colooel 0. E. Benson captured in the Santerburg Ringes 65 Boers, a Krapp gun, and a quantity of ammunition.

VILJOEN'S COMMANDO GOES SOUTF. NOO3BENKA.AL OCCUPIED. Received 27, 0.48 a.m. . 'London, April 26. Ben Viljoen and 500 men, with ■ pompom and two maxims, have gone south along the Steelpoort Valley. They have abandoned their wagons and destroyed the fifcean-pounder captured at the battle of Oo.enso, and a Krupp gun. Colonel A. P. Pulteney occupied Ncweieckaal, where tbe Lacddrost and 110 burghws surrendered.

RECRUITING FOR SOUTH AFRICA. Wellington, Abtil 26*. The Commander oi Forwa wishes ft known that the New Zealand Government n ill not be respeasible fer contracts entered into by F. B. Hughes, of BrabtntNs Hcrae.