CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 191, 24 August 1901, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(Br Eliotbio Tblioraph.—CopraiOKT.)

BOER WAR. —, —• i GBNBRAL ITBMB. MB PBBBS iasooiinoK. Lohdos, August 23. Haaebroek's commando was surprised at Doornberg, and seven were tolled and twenty-oneoaptured. A number of feme-expired Antra)ian troopj have landed at Southampton from the Oape. The Timet rays that the Transvaal holders of NetherUod rtiway stock bold 5100 shares on the Oontioent sine* the b. ginning of the war, and the prxtent holdeis cannot expeot to b* Ought out. The Standard earn tb* Dut'l) ebareh-Jde. b aie delighted at <b» reported terms of Great .Britain's off.r, but Mr. Kruger and his oouniellore are I disappointed at the settlement removir g a pretext for international dispute. , I Lord Kitchener bas mentioned foe

conspicuous services Troop»r Derebyr, Fourth Imp-rial Bushmen; BergsantMajor B, jgman, atd Sergeant Phillip, bant, Fifth; and Tiooptr Ruddle, Bixth Imperial Bushmen.

A SPY'ei DESERTS. ACCIDENT TO A NEW ZEALANDER. WESTRAUAN CASUALTIES. HeoMved 28, 9.40 p.m. I osdon, August 23. A man named Upon, a Gaps ist, colonial ho n, wps shot as a spy at Pretoria. He was . right with tone Boars from a commando endeavouring to repass the British lints. The three ' B.ers were,detained as prisoners of War, Sergeant Kiddell, cf the New Zeeland Seventh wag aooi* dentally sever. lyjwounded at Bloemfontein. Private Delatranty was HIM at Vladplaats, and Lieutenant Young and Private Mac Donald wounded, All were Wcstralians. KRUGER THREATENING REPRISALS, A BISHOP IN DEFBNOE OF BRITAIN. Received 24, 0.80 a.m. London, August 23, Mr. Kruger is sending a protest to the Hague Peace Convention signatories.

The Netherlands G'<ve- nment fc&l declined to transmit it. Mr. Kruger hints th>t if the Pu«mw are indifferent to his appeal Botha wil be siven a free hand t > effect repristV. Tbe Bishop rf Liverpool, replying to a pro-Ber appeal from the Swim Evaoge ioal Alliarce strongly npKoMa Britain's cau-e, and says the cLr*e« made i ■ the appeal agai.mt the Brjtiak are bawd on d 'feot've information, and are spiritually harmful to evangelical' i m through ut the weild.

RETURNED TROOPER*. WBLIiINOIOX, August 2Sb Lieutenauc Durcm and Trooper* Colvin and Coppprta arrived from SraMt. Africa by the Whakatane this morning.