IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6623, 23 October 1899, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

Mr Schreiner is working loyally with Sir Alfred Milner. .

' The artillery and rifle markmanship of the Boers at Glencoe was bad.

The British casualties at Elandslatiie were 100. . Many Boers were taken prisoners. The aews of the British victory at Glentsoe strengthened tlie London Stock Exchange. The House of Commons passed the supplementary army estimate of ten millions by 271 votes to 32. -

The censorship of the war authorities, at the Cape is having the effect of reducing the cable details of the war. To a call made at Victoria, British. Columbia, for 60 volunteers for the Transvaal, 1000 responded. The anniversary of Trafalgar was celebrated with great rejoicings in London, Portsmtratlh Chatham and .Rochester.

Major Scoit, commanding the Mounted Police at Vryburg committed suicide, being unwilling to evacuate the town.

The United States yacht, Columbia, beat the Shamrock by a mile in the third racßj and thus won the America Cup., •/

■ A meeting of irishmen at Capetown conr demned the formation of a Transvaal . Iri^h brigade, and supported Sir Alfred Miiner. \

The rout of the Boers at Grieneo© was complete. Their guns and equipments were captured and they fled precipitately. They are being pursued by the British cavalry and mounted infantry. In the battle of Glencoe the British lost ten officers and thirty-five rank and file killed^ and thirty officers and one hundred and fifty rank and file wounded. The Boer losses are estimated at- six hundred.

Several Boer commandos are required; to overawe the natives on the Basuto and Swaziland frontiers. The threatening attitude of the Baeutos is considerably relieving iihe danger to th-e British at Aliwal North. Dx Reitz has issued a manifesto to the Orange Free Staters, denouncing the British as murderers and treaty breakers. He says that Sir Alfred Milner and other British statesmen have defrauded and libelled the Afrikander nation.

In the House of Commons, before midnight on Friday, Mr Balfour read a mes&age announcing the victory at Gtencoe. When he announced that. Major-General Symons had been morfelly* wounded all the meinbera uncbvered. '" .* ' ' .

An 4naour*d train operating in- tbe directions of Jllandslaagte telepihoned that an engagement bad taken place there, resulting in the silencing of three Boe r guns and the oa'pture of Elandslaagte". The erieniy' numbered 1000' to 2000. General White intended to Teopen the railway to Glencoe. . ..