THE BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 151, 22 July 1901, Page 3

THE BOER WAR.

CABLE NEWS.

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♦ LORD HILNBR'3 BETURN. EXTENSION OF MARTIAL L4W. THB WOMEN IN EKFOGE OAHF3. [PJtK PMBS ASSOCIATION. J Beceived 20. 9.6 a.m. London, July 19. Lord Milner returns on August 10th Martial law has been extend ed to the MacLeanand Elliot disrictg. Borger has ordered the enlistment of all Boers aged 14 and over* Mrs Fawcett and other members of the Victor'an League are included in the Government Committee appointed to visit the refugee camp in South Africa. Hon. St. John Brodrink informed the House of Commons that women who are able to support themselves are permitted to leave the refugee camps. OLEMBNOY TO REBELS. Beceived 20, 8.0 pjn. Loroov, July 20. Lord Kitchener has commuted 34 death sentences en Cape rebels to penal servitude for life in the Bermudas. THB WORK 01* THB OAPE TROOPS. Beceived 21, 4 40 p.m. London, July 20. A Seuter de«p»tch states that all the Caps troops will thereafter operate exclusively within Cape territory under colonial commanders, on expert raiders, and suppress the rebellion, co-operating with the Imperial troops engaged beyond the frontier.

RETURNED TROOPERS. Auckland, July 21. The returned troopers of the Fourth »ad Fifth Contingents paid a last >ihute of respect to Guaner Arthur W. Kendall (formerly of Hekianga) of the Fifth Contingent, who died od the Tagushut week. The embalmed remain* were taken to the railway station, and thence to Onehunga, and shipped ob for Hekianga, where the burial will take place. About thirty troopsrs escorted the remains to the railway etatien, marching on either side of the liearM. They were followed by a large number of beys of St. Stephen's Maori sohoel,