BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 88, 25 March 1902, Page 3

BOER WAR.

GENERAL ITEMS. PER PKESB ASSOCIATION. London, March 23. The blockhouses checked fifty aisailanta on a convoy between Kroonspruit and Frankfort. Mounted troops arrived shortly after and repelled the. attack.

Lord Onslow, speaking at Bath, said New Zealand was sending a Tenth Contingent, not in the first glamour of patriotic enthusiasm, but whGn the task bad become dull, tiresome, and monotonous.

The services of eight battalions of militia have been accepted. Mr. St. John Brodrick, in the House of Commons, stated that at the end of April all the militia regiments would be relieved and brought home.

BOER LEADERS AT PRETORIA. Received 24,10.28 p.m. Lohdon, March 24. Schalk Burg' r, Reitz, Hercas Meyer, Krogh, and Vanderc/alt arrived by train at Pretoria with a fl g of truce, from Middleburg on Sunday.

I A PROJECTED CONFERENCE OF LEADERB. ' Received 25, 1.9 a.m. London, March 24. Advices state that Scbalk Burger and Rvitz intend meeting Mr Steyn and General De We', and possibly Diskrey, going out under mL' c induct. The impression in London is that while a general and simultaneous sur- | render is possible as a nsult of the conferecce, it is highly improbable. The silence regarding Botha is commented upon.

WOUNDED NEW ZffiALiNDERa DOING WELL. Wbllington, M.rch 24. Tbe General commanding at Capo Town cables that the principal medical officer at Harrisroith reports all wounded New Zealanders doing well.