THE BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 168, 30 July 1901, Page 3

THE BOER WAR.

A BOSR LEAD BR KILLED. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, July 28. R/u'er's messages report that Commandant Spruyt was killed while attempting to crojs the railway near Heidelberg. ANOTHER LAAGBR CAPTURED, , HOBS ABOUT T< AKFONTBIN. (per press association.) (Beceived 2.9 10.35|pm.) London, July 25. Cilonal Garrett enptar-d a laajar at Losbtrg, taking twenty-five pri- oners, a thousand c«ttie,and mtny harses and sheep. Tae War Office U publishing statements which Lord Kitchener has collected the Vakfootein outrages. Piet Forster, a Ge'man, is named as the meat p-ominent offender. DEATH OF A RKTURHBD TROOPER. Irvbrcarqill July 29. Serges-IW. A. Moffett, of tbe Fifth Contingent, who returned by the Tagtu, died last night. He was in good health on landing, but a week later a fresh attack of malarial fever, contracted while going through Portuguese territory, set in, and was fallowed by pneumonia, Napier, July 29. Sergeant Petersen, who w;s smous'y wounded at \vr. eniging, was attached to tbe Third Contingent, and saw s >nw hard fighting during the firtt pa-t oi the cimp ign. He was captured and imprisoned, but suHfequently tscipei from Noo.tpeiach- and sifely eluded hw Bo»r p-m-uen l , but on nraring thv British li>es be was woundei byji sentry.