CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 17, 21 January 1902, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

By Klhctbic Thlboraph.—Oopiright. BOER WAR. •_ GENERAL ITEMS. MB PBBSS ASSOCIATION.] Loudon, January 19. The chief Boer depot, between Olifants and Crocodile Kivers, in an almost inaccessible position, contains 80,000 small arms and quantities of amnxftition. There are indications that their resistance will not be broken until the British occupy Zoutepanbergs. .Harold Montgomery, son of the Bishop of Tasmania, has received a commission in the Imperial Yeomanry.

COMMANDANT BCHBBPERB .. EXECUTED. YARIOUS CAPTURES. BOEB LBADBRB m HOLLAND NONPLUSSED. Received 20,10.48 p.m. London, January 20. Scheepjis was executed at Graafreinet on Saturday. Kruitzinger will be tried immediately. Major Whitehead, with a company ef Munster Fusiliers, stormed a position at Griqnatown at the point of the bayonet. Major Whitehead and fonr men were killed and five seriously : . wounded. The Boers lost severely. Colonel Monro's columns killed four and captured six rebels at Karmelspruit. ; Boers'in the Birkley East district admit that 150 have been kilhd, captured, or have deserted during the last two mocths. Twenty-tbree additional Boer leaders have been permanently banished. Dr. Van Euyper, Netherlands' Premier, saw Wolmirans and the Boer peace delegates at The Hague directly he returned from London. Wolmarans communicated with Mr. Kruger, and summoned Fischer and Dr. Levels to a conference. ». It is reported that several officials of the Colonial and Foreign Offices are visiting The Hague under assumed names, '■" The Bow delegate, especially Kroger and Leyds, are moat reluctant to suggest a basis for negotiations, since Lord Salisbury's declaration in the House of L)rds on Thursday, fearing a rebuff. Seuter t agency reports that Wolm'arans, in the course of an interview, stated that the blockhouses would finish the war quicker than anything else.

BOTHA ASKED TO END THE BTBUGGL& Received 21,0.30 a.m. London, January 20. D? Van Koypor baa telegraphed to the Tim fs denying that he induced tbe the Boer delegates to formulate terms * cfipeaea). The Timet Pretoria correspondent states that the numerous captures are demoralising the burghers in the f Eastern Transvaal, and a number have ?-petitioned Botha to end the war quickly, alleging that they are unable to bear the thought of women and ehildfsn starving in the concentration camps. The Times suggests this is an excuse to avoid a charge of oowardioe. Trichards commando has threatened! to surrender.. Trichard appealed to Botha to quefl the dissatisfaction. Seven hundred Boers have been captured in the Eastern Transvaal in six weeks.

DR. KBAUSVS TRIAL. Received 21,0.58 am. London, January 20. Dr. Krause at his trial stated thit Broeckemi supplied the information regarding the concentration camp*, to be furnished to the Daily News. 3 udgp Alverstone, in sentencing the accused, said that Krause was morally guilty of muider.and had used the weapons of a murderer against a political opponent. THE CHABGBB OF INHUMANITY, Received 21,0.58 a.m. London, January 29, Mr J. 0. Henderson, of Hender son's Teansvaal Estate 9, Limited, in Johannesburg, has offered £IO,QOO if the charges of inhumanity against the British are proved within six months. He lews the decision to the treasurer of four London hospitals. If the decision is adverse, half the money will fro to London hospitals and half to hospitals oo <he Continent. Lord Mil n»r has informed a correspondent that neiriy 50,000 Uithnder* desired to return a committ»e composed of British loyalist;?, and mide selections giving preference to loyalists, especially those ab'e to employ others, or chose who fought during the war.

A NISTS CONJTOQENT TO BB RAISED. Wellington, January 20. The Government has received intimation from the Secretary of Stntn for the Colonies that His Maj sty's Government will be glad to have another 1000 men raised in New Zealand on the same terms as the Eighth. The Premier has consult d members of Parliament by telegraph, and ha« already .received replies from the majority appro vine the 'd "a. H." has, therefore, cabled to the Imperial Government that another Contingent will be raised. Bwnruiting will be started at once. A larger proportion will be allotted pa c ran try districts than in the former case. The P-emier is advised th»t Privat» William Henry Davtp, of the Seventh Contingent, who b longs to Medbury, North Canterbury, was lying dangerously ill at Charl-stown on th* 13th instant, from a gurshet wound. The local defence authorities received *a communication on Monday morning from Wellington reque'ting that two more men be sent at once at fill vacancies in the Eighth Contingent. Captain Tinntcn informs us tbit W. A. Goombridge, of Opunakr, will he one, and ano'her is baing eommuuica f ed with.