THE BOER WAR.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4893, 21 September 1901, Page 1

THE BOER WAR.

Lok»ON, September 17. The • Daily Mail's' Capetown cones* pondent states that Lord Kitchener and Sir W. F. Hely-Hutchinson favor martial law in Capetown, with a view to the extirpation of rebels, while Sir Gordon Sprigg (the Premier) and the community generally oppose such a policy. September 18. The Distinguished Service medal has been conferred upon Private Sweeney, of the Fifth Queensland Bushmen. Eighty Boer prisoners were oaptured at Rustenburg. Further surrenders are reported In the Yaal River and Losberg districts. Brigadler*general Plainer and Majorgeneral Sir Charles Knox are pushing the enemy In the Orange River Colony. All the Transvaal columns are refitting. Lord Kitchener's weekly report ataUs that 47 Boers were killed, 7 wounded, 371 taken prisoners, and 134 surrendered} while 236 rifles, 23,750 rounds of ammunition, 164 waggons, 3,400 horses, and 5,750 cattle were captured. The trial of Beoeekmas. late Pxoaeeutiog Attorney for the trinifaal, s/ho was arrested for treason and conspiracy, has concluded. The result la not pub* Hshed, as the verdict is awaiting Lord Kitchener's decision. The boers attacked Belfast, on the Delegoa Bay line, on the 14th inst., but were repulsed. Adelaide, September 18. In response to the request made some time ago, the Adelaide Cadet Csrps have received from Lord Kitchener 200 Maustf rifles captured from the Boers t