The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-02
TRANsvAAL NOTES.
Condensed Telegrams Covering All
Minor News.

| Adelbert Hay has reached Cap'
Town.
Rough Riders are enlisting in Van,
couyer
Exchanges OF prisoners are now go
ing on.
London specials say the Beers ar,
losing heavily
A road to Ladysmith has been selzet
by Dundonald.
Beers have bought 100000 pounds o.
beef in Chicago.
Lord Roberts has issued an order for
bidding looting.
There Is renewed talk of early Euro
pean Intervention.
The London Times notes revival
of Fenian activity
The Beers are still holding theii
ground about Colesburg.
Two native regiments will be sent tC
South Africa from India.
British troops are reported to be
have well under cross-fre.
The American hospital ship Main.
has arrived at Cape Town.
Bullet-proof shields are being man
ufactured for British troops.
The Beers will treat captured corn :
spondents as prisoners of war.
The Sixth Division of the British
army has reached SCUM Africa.
The British have seized the French
steamer Garonne at Delagoa pay.
All private kilograms for the South
African Republic will be stopped.
Col. Broadwood, from the Soudan, is
to command Warren's light horse.
Lord Rosebery says the British re-
verses have made a united empire.
Numbers of Natal Dutchmen are re-
cognized amongst the Boer dead
The grass on the veldt Is being de,
stoyed by great swarms of locusts.
Montagu " hite Is at Washington try
ing to secure American intervention.
The British artillery fire during Bul
ler's assault was the heaviest of thI
war.
The Beers are accused of having
fired on woman's laager at Mafe-
king.
Emperor William expresses regret at
British losses but praises Boer general
ship.
The quarters of White and Hunter
at Ladysmith were smashed by Boer
shell.
1t is feared in London that the long
strain will prove too much for Buffers
troops.
Cheering news Is badly needed by the
British Ministry before Parliament
meets.
| Johannesburg can be made impreg-
nable with Notifications made of mine
tailings.
George Stevens. the famous English
correspondent, has died of fever al
, Ladysmith.
The Seventh Lancers, Eighth Hus-
sars and Seventh Dragon Guards are
being modified.
I Owing to their contempt for Euro
pean military methods the Beers have
few foreign advisers.
Mafeking is still holding out The
garrison is wen supplied with cattle
and timed meats.
Generals French and Gatacre are
making reconnoissances while await.
ing reinforcements.
The Netherlands Society of Phila-
delphia has passed resolutions of sym
pathy with the Beers.
General Butler has about twenty
traction engines which draw from ten
TO fifteen wagons each.
Deaths from enteric fever and dys.
entery are increasing at Ladysmith
/ They average ten a day.
The steamer Bermuda has been en-.
joined from leaving Philadelphia witt
war material for the Beers.
| DR.. Conan Doyle is on his way to the
front. He says the war marks turn
ing point for Great Britain.
The German bark Marie, with floul
for the Transvaal Government, haI
been taken as a British prize.
1t is denied that Webster Davis o
the State Department, who Is going tC
Pretoria, has any official mission.
England has agreed not to interfere
with German vessels north OF Alden ol
. similar distance south OF Delagoa
Bay.
General Warren with eleven thou.
sand men arrived wlthia seventeen
miles OF Ladysmith on the 10th OF Jan
uary.
Two war correspondents, Nevinsor
and Melton Pryor had narrow es
cape near Ladysmith from bursting
shell.
Danish soldiers have sent 1900
boxes of choice butter to the British
soldiers through the Princess o
Wales.
The Brussels correspondent of til
London Chronicle asserts that tn
Beers have from $4,000 10 10000 mel
in the field.
Advices from London state that Z
guns, 37l0 artillerymen and 22l0 horse
would leave for South Africa durin
this week.
Senator Hale has made an impas
stoned speech In favor of recogniz!n
representative of the Transyaal q
Washington.
1t is estimated that the expedition I
relieve Kimberley will have TO b