MISCELLANEOUS.
SERIOUS ILLNESS OF A NEW ZEALANDER. Received Febniaiy 2, 11.28 p.m. London, February 2.— A Hanoverian colonel on the staff of Colonel Villebois Mareuil, the French director of the Boer army, declares that 10,000 trained European soldiers are assisting the Boers. Volunteer officers are profoundly disgusted with .the War- Office putting obstacles in. the way of ths employment of volunteers at the front and fjr their refusal to allow the additional recruiting of Home regiments. Received February 3, 1.30 a.m. Cavktov.w, February 2. — Trooper Hurford, of the New Zealand Contingent, is seriously ill with heart disease. The Cape police have captured 1000 head of cattle belonging to rebels in the Dordrecht district.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11738, 3 February 1900, Page 2
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113MISCELLANEOUS. Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11738, 3 February 1900, Page 2
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