CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 213, 14 September 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric ♦ BOER WAR. ♦ —'— GKNERAL irBMB. PER PRKBS ASSOCIATION. Loudon, Sepfct-mber 12. General Birker discovered 7000 [buried Martini cartridges at Brand- ' water Basin, besides immense quanti- . ties of grain concealed in caves. | Lord Methuen defeated Vantonder and De )a Key at Matico, k lling 18 and capturing 41. Three hund'ed and fifty Boers surrounded Major Marshall's Twelfth Mounted Rifles at Betiefnek. The party were in a tight corner till Gsneral Barker sent some Yeomanry to relieve them. Scheeper's force is burning the houses of all the men serving with the Cape Burgber Guards. His commando consis's almost entirely of C»pe recruits. The Dordrecht volunteers surprised a party of Boer officers at a farmhouse, killing two and wounding General Smith Smith, who efcaped. METHUENB FIGHT AT MAKICO. LEYDS AND ARBITRATION. Received 13,11 pm. London, September 13. Scheepet's rebels agree in stating that the Baeis of both districts decided to surrender before the 15th. Major-General Methuen's losses at Marico were 15 killed and 30 wounded. The Boer general L?mmer and FieldCornet Joubert were killed and thirty wounded. Methuen captured 300 vehicles, 15,000 cattle, and 60,000 sheep. Dr. Leyds, Weraele, Fischer and Wolmarans on Tuesday appealed at the Hague for arbitration of the disputes leading to the war, and adding that Great Britain had violated the rules of warfare. ARRESTS FOR CONTRABAND DEALING. Received 13,11.20 p.m | London, September 13. Two Frenchmen have been arrested at Lorenzo Marques on a charge of

dealing in tbe contraband goods recently found on the frontier, A JUSTIOK OF THE PEACE IM. PRISONED. . Receive 1 ! 14, 11 am. London, September 13, Peter Maseyn, a Cape Justice of the Peace, bas been s°nfewed at Kimber■srnment for und actively laniel Skuil. is prorogued LANDERS. Member 13. eived advice tbe steamer h irs v ., havsrs of various Zealand, who will tranship at Sydney. NEW ZEALAND NURSE HONOURED. Wellington, September 13, The Premier has received a letter from Nursing Sister Nellie Redstone; who left New Zealand to serve in tbe South African military hospitals, stating that she bad th» honour of bring one of fix nurses selected for presentation to King Edward for a war medal. After the medals had been presented the King sent for Sister Crow and the writer, and the King and Queen bad ° long conversation wit'ilhem. Nurse Redstone is returning to South Africa shortly from England.