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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 174, 6 August 1901, Page 3

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HJy Electric Telegraph—Copybiqht) THE BOER WARGENERAL ITEMS. PBR PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, August 4. Rimington's Guides captured a portion of Commandant Sfceenkamp's con- \ voy at Klip River, also two loaded 1 waggons and 2000 cattle in the Lindley distiicfc. Commandant Hermann Steyn, cousin of the ex-Piesident, was killed at' Ficksburg. I A New Zealander,Private A. Small,. i was severely wounded at Wildeslaagt. j; A dkirmish southwards of AUwal' i North on the 14th developad into an eight hours' fight. Six hundred Boers under Commandant Fouoke, posted in the surrounding hills, opened fire on a ' detachment of Connaught Bangers j 1 under Lieut -Colonel Moore, escorting '' a convoy. The Ranger?, with ene.' Maxim, did splendid work. Under, 1 heavy fire they stormed a bill and out- i flanked the Bosrs atid drove them in'o a donga, where Field Coronet Olivier was fata'ly wounded Since the beginning of t.'r e war 6058 Loyalist r-fogecs have been shipped Home, 37,315 regulars relieved, and 10,458 provided with permanent labour. The Standard states that Mr. Krug a r cherishes the illiisioo that the coming , meeting of the Emperor of Germany j atd t.ho Czir will help the Boer cause. | The Daily News, referring to the j previous day's proceedings, says the • front Opposition bench was empty, and ■ that the party, deserted and enfeebled, has reached the last stage of humiliation. Jn the House of Commons, a motion was tabled by Mr. Hobbouse, member for E»st Bristol, for the reduction of Mr. Chamberlain's salary, was withdrawn by the mover. It was then put at the ins'anre of Mr. J. Dillon, and I nsgatived by 154 against 70 ' Sydney, August 5. Nine hundred and fifty remounts have been shipped to South Africa. THE L&TEST. WHAT MB. KROGER WANTS. Received 5,10.65 p m. London, August 5. OwiDg to the discovery of large quantities rf mpalifs in th» Kaffir kraals forming the chief source of supply to the enemy, all Kaffirs hereafter will be brought to special refuge ' camps. Eeuter's correspondent states that two Beers, with a flag of truce, brought to Kronstad yest.rday a letter from Mr Steyn. The War Office has withdrawn its j interdict with reference to supplying ] news to the Daily Mail A body r,f New Zcalinde.'S and Queenslarders, after a three montho • trek, reim. p Kronstad Thev cleared the sun iunding districts, capturing much stork. Colonel Ste wartyof che Johannesburg Rlfl*s, by a night march surprised a laager at Am<*erspnort, capturing 21 • Bofrs and 350 cattle. Returning from the attack, he was encumberad by 300 men, belonging to Christian Bitha's and Smutts commando?, hovering in the vicinity and sniping, Mr. Kruger declared .to a Paris Figaro interviewer that he would refuse to nepotiata for peace unless on the lines of an amn- sty for Afrikanders, the complete and unlimited inde- 1 pindeoce of the Transvaal, and the re- . tention of its Hig. Wellington, August 5. The Premier has received a cablegram from Colonel Porte' 1 , of the Seventh Contingent, dated 3rd: — "Everythins well. Seventh behaved splerdidlr; greatly praised by commanders ; all wounded recovered or out 1 of danger."