BRITAIN & THE TRANSVAAL

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11818, 15 November 1901, Page 2

BRITAIN & THE TRANSVAAL

CAPE COLONY EXPENDITURE,

THE TRANSVAAL GOLD OUTPUT

ANOTHER SKIRMISH

United Press Association.— By Eleotric Telegraph. — Copyright. Received Novemfer 14> 10.53 p.m*. _Lpndon, November. 14. — Qape . Colony during the' last two years ' has expended JJI.OQO.OOO upoii r'ail\*.iy engines' * J and" rolling sto"fik; T ?otoiy &liS&,QQO going to foreigners^' <? > * Lietitehint Groatkin, of ,the Sikfjfc ■New Mounteds, is conyaleficentand resumed 'duty. ' *"""* „Rajy6fer's." (Sxf^lied from" ' J^the €'apoMidlands -are 're-asseinblihg near s ' ' '■^-'■ i \ ■ •' •?:••• - ".' Theßand -otitstut . ofl-gold duiidg; October was .*i3;893 ouncesjl-: ju.,5 . k \/k ! Received November 15, 12.55 a.m. . London, November" 14.- !^-Comma»id- J ant Maritz captured a convoy at' •Covendam; • after -a stiff "-ngbfcf -dis- 1 abling fourteen //ofljthe British es-" cort... Thirty-five Boers. ,, were last? 'similarly. They ' removed sixf ivf^'\ ■ goris and burned the resti >< .• X- ) •• "'' •■ • *''''■; —- **— Jj „,.'-■, .*)"}

BOER ATROCITIES

-.., , THE BQER LO^ES. v ' / / j BRITISH,REXNFORgEMENTS, } Received ttoVembdr 15, 9,6 a.m. , JLohdbh", Novemjaer" t l4.i- : Mfc' i - rr ßt.'' •John Brodrick speaking' -at^"6he; "Gicy, Carltpri ' Club .saijl'.i" that -thp BoersS frequently Katiirb ! in order! to conceal their- tracks from thus pursuing column. iiLora/r'-KitcnemLMJ •bad.: just,,cabled grthat .jcold bloojedt JVi&T&P*®!. by-Boer^s^we/e .frequent,- w o£ Jftte, and." ga-ve, .several/ ahockiig ,m- ' cMents -IT " .-uch coriduk '" general the perpetrators mustN-tK treated c as' bandits* arid * desper'ad'oct,! *Thii< t&bckhbusds^ built excluded!:.; tftd Boers from>. 'l4^7oo square •cmileSjj of countuy in the Transvaal, , and 17; 000 ,in , the Orange Colony. 4?cgoo ana~lr^H)o ki^eii/ Teotittdear^ana^ieTt tht country. -VXt'iwasmelieyed thore were 10,000 still in the field. TV4 Goveiariment '-was v sendingrjtwo re;?;meuts" of cUvali-y/SOOO^othSr^mount-ed troops, two regular line batailibijf.,, and^ some /militiajregimeftts to South Africa ; and India would supply "batallions, and two cavalry ro*gimen'ts • A colony (not South African), had offered fresh contingents 'It wtfs* announced (that Major-Gen-eral Sir Archibald Hunter will command . the fourth - army corps; and that Sir Evelyn Wood, and" the .Duke of Conn,aught ,the second and third ai'hly c6rps*r6SpecU ively. will both command iiF*the field. in- the, event of. the corps; beir.f ordered on .active service.

MORE MURDERS.

AWAY A ; atEDDIfeR? ""Received November 15; -9;flO a'm\ London. November 15.— The 'Boerfc. shot rand killed a Sergeant ot> the Cape" Police on sick leaVe, who.:wok sitting on the Stoep Hotel in' the Odenaaatslf r^obnt »vdistrict . SLord ; Kitchener reports that J% .the -Boers, -captuired.._and m jcille.d Pi'iva o aChristianson, Cape Pioneer Bai^way Regiment. '• „ " ' , ' .. !,. - * ,' s Wheit ' takett to Cape " Town Miss Hbbhouse vfraV not'tiormitted to- alight from the railway carriage, \bii(t was>' ; conducted • direct t aboa«i the steamer returning, ip^ Enjjjafi'd. j / Received November 15» 11,4 ja.m. j

London, N»vembe?^4.^tTrA rebel at Maieking was^ sen.toq.cefl. tQ, , death f-or shooting a native, in 6old bloo^ \ ' Anglicans at RKlne Valley have issued an Anti-Chamberl&in manifesto wh&sh states that ; the British- placed. Boer., women and old, men in tne,, front" ranks tp \ shield -r themselves from bullets. The Cologne Gazette) expresses " indignatipn> ' fetd some of Ihe pastors- swill honestly repudiate. the statement. ; ...

.'••- '"(Per Presß~Aisociation). c - , j '-1 1 1 £W^ngtor4\ VSS ovyfii^er l«HEha, GeneraL , comoiahdinjgl at Jk, Capj telegraphs ' afe f6Utm&, sMDtSiasci-.s left Capetown on 4th instant, wi;n \Oaptain Drury ,and.23.->men bt'thc New. -Zealand Rifles, and, Captain Ross, of , the Scottish-, Horse., ,Thv7 >ill tranship at Sydney. Hie Riftiur. taTcaleft'on thd'^fh instant" "with Lieutenants D. Stuart and It. ill Trotter, of the 1 Seventh Cdhli&goriv.-' '•'■,' Dtfnedin,- November. 14.— The G'nvernbr- has received a cable .that *,Tr,6jppen Qrofter JJmbers,,-. of t the Scpttish ,Horse, h&§ been,, ' He is' a •son o'T a^Wcll^miwn'.telegVaph^oflic-" KtfiWS ABOTTrSTEW ZBXLANDERS .^lyelUngton,,.. ,-JMovenibe?, 16.— Tihe v^oived ; >-l^l3e trAso. Major Pilcher, of Cape Town, sti> injpr that rC^p^n^,^Russell's son jis well, that 'Lieutenant Whiteley ;is with his regiment, ' that * Trbortor JSeherer, <pf the Railway PioneeH. Wailed |n| the 4tti, Trooper Mitchell is progressing w<<l J t though not yet out of danger. v>