BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 65, 10 March 1902, Page 3

BOER WAR.

GENERAL ITEMS. FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION. London, March 7. Mr Kruger is bitterly disappointe at President Roosevelt's declaratin that America will not intervene. H declares be will not seek farther inter vention, bat will let the Boers fight t & finish. Messrs Weasels and Wolmaranshav cabled advising Mr Kruger to recom nJund the Boer generals to confer wit! a view of arranging terms. The delegates' presence in Washing tonattracs little attention. In the House of Commons Mr 81 John Btodrick confessed that he hai been unduly sanguine reputing th< estimates of Boers still in the field. I was impossible to distinguish fighter and non-fighters; unless they wen very old or very young all surrenderor were liable to serve under command' law. Bebels under Vandermerive wer nearly surrounded in the Yrybur| district. Vandermerive escaped. Thir teen rebels and three Transvaalers wen captured. HIDDEN AMMUNITION, ETC., DISCOVERED. CAPTURES AT BEITZ. Beceived 9, 4 32 p.m. London, March 8. Colonel Rimington's column dis covered in a cave near Reits 300,00( rounds of Martini ammunition, 10,00( Lee-Metford cartridges, hundreds o shells and fuses, one Maxim, tw< heliographs, and quantities of miscel laneous stores. It is believed to b< De Wet's reserve. Since ,the 4th inst. 35 prisoners wen captured at Riitz. Received 10, 1.86 a.m. London, March 9. Two irregulars were convicted at i co<jrt; martial for shoo tine surrend red Boers, and wen sho. • t Pretoria. NINTH CONTINGENT. THEIR WAR CRT. Auckland, March 8. Last evening Henry Stowell, Maori interpreter, was waited on by the noncommissioned officers and asked to supply a suitable native war cry for the ; Contingent. Eventually he suggested the words " E Tama reia (charge lads,") which was accepted as the battle cry for the Ninth. THIS GOVERNOR'S FAREWELL ADDRESS. Duneton, March 8. The Governor inspected the South Island section of the Ninth Contingent to-day, the Premier and Mayor beiag present. In addressing the men, be said the utmost pat t of his Majesty's dominions freely and of its own accord come forward, with no niggard h*nd, to take a share of the harden entailed in protecting and upholding our grand Empire. It could not now be long 7 before tfcms of peace must be arranged, and those terms could only be such as would lead to permanent peace. Ever in the ferefroofc in doing whatever should be of service to the Mother Country, the Premier had not waited to see ho# other colonies would act, bat had throughout, by spontaneous *ud loyal action set an example cf promptitude and patriotism which had made New Zealand tha cynosure of »11 eyes. He went on to refer to th< doings of the Seventh Contingent, and said the nature of the wounds told its own tale. The men fell facing the foe, and though the colony sorrows at the loss of so many men she rejoices at the manner they performed their He trusted it would be the lot of the Ninth Contingent to be present when pause was proclaimed, and that they mi&ht see Boer and Englishmen pursuing their ~ vocations side by side in amity, building up a strong British South Africa. The Governor bid good-bye to thi Preaiier, at whose call three cheors were given ior the Governor and the Contingent. Auckland, March 8. Mrs Hayes has received a telegram from the Premier stating that Trooper Hayes, who was sußeriog from enteric, is doing well. Tbe Premier has tel - graphed to Mr Colledge spacing that Lieutenant College's condition is satisfactory and that ha will continue t improve,