CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 261, 5 November 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

By Electeio Tjslegbaph —Copyeight BOER WAR. BANISHMENT OF BOER LEADERS. ' THE CASUALTIES AT BRAKENS-X-EAGH.

I PER PRESS ASSOCIATION, j Received 4, 8.47 a.m. I London, November 3. ! fi. P, Potter, Seventh New Zealand Contingent, was wounded at Vryheid. I Seventeen additional Boer leaders | have been banished, including the j Landdronts of Pretoria, i The cisuilties at Brakensleigh were | among the Northamptons, East Kents, j Yorkshires, Light Infantry, Scottish ! Horse, Cheshires, Co'dstreams, King's Royal Rifles, and Artillery. [ THE ATTACK ON BENSON. . j A STUBBORN FIGHT. LARGE CAPTURES OF REBKLS. Received 4, 10.41 p.m. London, November 4. Batba, retreating northwards, was joined by a big commando, and is entrenching at Braktnlaagti'. Colonfl E llison, while marching on the 30tb, w:»s attsokfd arid mortally wounded. Tljm foi j was deprived of its guns, which neither side was able secure. Major Wools Sampson, an intelligence officer, assumed command. He collected the convoy nnd took up a defensive position within 500 yurds of tho entrenchments. Tha Boets repeatedly charged up to the British lines, but were repulsed with great, slaughter. The defence was maintained with uninterrupted stubbornness until Colonel Barter, at Bushmen's Kop, sent up reinforcements on Friday, when thi Boers retired. Their lofses were 375.

Colonel DeLsslie, during the last fortnight in Hat rii-mith and Bethlehem districts, captured 18 Boers, 3255 horses, 15,000 sheep, and 1000 trek oxen; while Major Homes on the 29th surrounded a laagar in the Krooubtad district, when 200 escaped. Six were captured, including Field-Cornot Odonaal.

Fourteen of Kruitzhiger's and Spamieberg's commandos were captured in the vicinity of Winborg.