BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 16 May 1901, Page 2

BOER WAR.

UTILISING THE ZULUS. LORD BAL'BBORY'B SPEECH. (PRn I'BKSS ASSOCIATION.) Received '5, V.lO a.m. Lou do*, May 14. Mr. B f .. John Brodriok, in reply to Mr. Bryce, memler for Aberdefn S>uth,stat-d that Lcrd Kitcbsarr hid rec mmended tie Government of Natal to allow armed Zuan to p otect Zulalmd ngains' Bacr raiders, and unarmed natives, acting ut.der Hi itith officers, to rol'ect cattle ruVide Zululand. Receivid J5, 9.1* am. London, May 14. Lord Sil'sMiry, speaking at a ban-q-et of Noucomformist UniotrVs, said evpry pa'riot plnn],] 10-'k with ffflir.gi ■ f ex'i'tntion and eratitur'e up n tha past twA yen's. The Empire was safe, and tha cause < f peace was now move secure that Britain's Mr-ngth had been so < onclusively sho n. There was no Powrr in the wor'd hut krew that if it defle.l Enel<ind'»i m'gh' i defied on<j of the nr st foTmid ib'e enemie». He ear- I casticrtlly deputed the " innocent " Boer 'accumulation of armaments with- , oui i-itendirg to tt'.latk. The contest { was the outcime of a long prepared j conspi : cy. He finally emphasised and J poapl.rasfd Sir A'fred Milnoi's words, 1 '•Never pgain," used in reference toJ 15ril'i i's doeimina'i'n never] tiga'ti to p invt tho rrcrudfscence of! ■he Sai h Afiican out l reak. if

WHAT VIUT >RY OPER VTIONS 9 INVOLVE. 9 Received 16, 4.50 pm, ■ London, May 14. n A Blue Ri k hvs been i<suel show-I ing 'hat tho Bri;ish burned si* hundred ' and thirty-four farms, mil's and cot-',' ♦■ages in tie Transvaal and Orange ' River c denies f r military reasons, | AUSTRALIANS AND THE OHAKTKEtD COMPANY' 3 OFFER. | I R celved 1", 4.50 p.m. London, Mav 14. Ho". M'. Plrlp, Premier of QueensUn<), intf-rvie.vea in t e r a-<-nce to the Chaite-ed Cotnpiny'n r rorii offer to ■ Au-tfal'nns, siid l>e did no*; oontider tl p g<: t of ]nn 1 w nl'l I e efit Austru« li»m to n main n S- ufch AfiiciJ but guld UitOjvericß might do so,

DEALING WITH DISLOYALISTS. Received 15,4 50 pm. Londoh, May 14. The Treason Court, at Barkly Eist has sentenced eight disloyalists ti terms of imprisonment ratging fr?u six months to two yeirs. The Cour has finished its sitt'ng-*. Four thousand refugees are comfort ably houted at Blejmfontein. DETAILS AS TO BURNING OF BOER FARM*. JAMIKSON RAID COMPENSATION OLAIMS. Received 16,0.33 n.ra London, May 15. A Blue Book djaUng with burning B:er farms for m litary pu-i os h gives the following detsils; —ln 147 in->tarc i it was for harboring B era, te/. lal To white flag treachery, 78 keciusn ih< owners were on command* s, others were for cutting *ir. s, snip ing convoys, firing on patois after the Boer women-folk had shown civility tc pitrols, con:oilinent of lost firearms, oath breakers rejoin'ng commu.do and carrying info m I'ioa to ihe en my. In the Commorp, Mr. Oxalate liin said any claim capable of subst >n' iation in connection with ftn Jamies n rni 1 would be cot sidered on its merits by tha Governor o: cbe colony. DEATHS FROM ENTERIC. Received 16, 1.17 a.m London, May 15. Dpaths from enteric are:— Major Henry Williams, New South Wales Mounted Infantry, at S'and*rton; Pri?4<e Robert 11. Robertson, New Zealand, at Pretoria. RETURN OF THE FOURTH AND FIFTH OONTING&NTS. Wkluhqtos, May 15. Lord Kitchener has cabled. ti the Premier that arrangements have baen mgHn fw the Fourth aod Fifth Contingents to retarn by the Gulf of Toranto,