BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 103, 17 May 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

PIET DE WE.T AS BRITISH GUIDE. PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION. (.BeceWed 16, 2.5 p.m.) London, May 15. Mr. Piet Do We' is gu ; ding M gor- , General Eliot's column, which if , sweeping the north-easter a districts of the Oraoge River Colony. Tbe country is fully shocked with mealies and fowls, which the cilumn are co'lecting. The eights are bitterly co!d aLd tbe Vtllt is dry. Dutch residents of Pretoria predict that the winter will compel a grnaral Boer surrecder. DE WET BK-APPEARED. DEFEAT OF MATTHEW PRETORIOUS Received 17, 12.44 a.m. London, May 16. It is unofficially reported at Ros*m ad Jar.cion that Do Wet with n "long torn " hj« atrivad at Zaurberg rarge and partita of Boers have reapp >ared there. Vialls furci traveling fos ty miles per dry from Eukledoom, overtook a portion of Matthew Pretorioui cm mando, captuiing twenty-seven. INVABIOS OF CAPE COLONY. Received 17, 0. r oa.m. London, May 14. Litegan, Iha Cohsburg rebel, with one hundied men, has re-entered Cape Colony. Wellikotov, May 16. ! The Governor of Cape Colony cables that Private R. K-llj, of Wade, Au-.-k----lßnd, Sixth Contingent, is dangerously ill of tnttric at Wai mbaths. •" Colonel Bai.ks cabled oa the 10 h that tbe Sixth Contingent had return- d to Pretoiu, all well, but vi'h v.iy few horses fit. The Ccut : nge<it is etj'iip ping and awaiting remoun's. BEADY NEW ZBALANDERS. , Auckland, M a y 16. Captain Todd, D.S.O , who re' u- ned '-from South Africa yesterday, itates that should an eighth contingent brequiied, folly 300 returned troopers are reidy to go on active servico Hgaiu. He himself has smt in bis spp'icuiin fjr a commission in the evtiit of a other contirgeot being raised. Capt?iu Todd returns to Wellington ehortly en official bus'nrss.

CABLE NEWS

(BY ELECTM'I TUXGKAPH— C01'YBl«IiT. ».