BRITAIN & THE TRANSVAAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11778, 28 September 1901, Page 3

BRITAIN & THE TRANSVAAL.

BOTHA kETmiNftJJfOBTHWARDS DOTCH GOVERNMENT S ADVICE - •- ' Ti) KRUGER. Oi *i Prew A*«ciation— By Electric . TeleerapJv-Copyriebt, Received Repteiuber27, lo.37 p.m. Losdon, September 20.— LienieiianlJ. B Bose^of the New Zealand force, has -left the Cape for New Zealand A number of Boers convicted of minor charges of treachery at Pretoria were sentenced to periods ranging from nve y«ars' penal servitude to fcsser terms as prisoners- of war. Received September 28, 1.9 a.m. Londoh, September 24. — General Botha i« retiring further cortb. THE HAGU^ , September 27. - The Batch Government baa decided $o keep aloof from the South African question, and hi» advised 2Jr Kruger to this effect. MORTALITY IN REFUGEE CAMPS. Received September 28. 9.31 a.ra. LONDON, SepUaiber £B.— Out of 10T>W5 white refugees in camps during AoKUftt 1878 died, including 510 children ontT of 22,038 children in the Orange Colony. . Lieutenant-Colonel Ellis has received a letter frbiu his son, William, who is withthe 6th Contingent, in' which he sayt :— ■** The- Taranaki section is not tte worst in <ne^ Contingent. We have had one mtn show them whatplucVis. Baker, f ronvEltham, got hit pretty badly in the shoulder, out he'crawled iuto a better position and kept on firing tiU he was too - weak to reload his rifle. He lay out on a kopje neirly all night before he got any help, and>hen he was at last got at be wa« all umiies and blood. A spleudid little fellow. A conpln of days after he was wounded be came down the lines during the midday halt wiih a blanket aronndhiro, smiling, and as lively as ever. The wopnd'he got would have killed naJl the men in the Regiment."